[yagyu]

Second this.

I ended up building a nice charging station right near the entrance. It has storage for keys, wallet, and other things to grab when heading out. It has an abundance of wired and wireless chargers for all devices.

Then I got a dumb (but nice) alarm clock for the bedroom.

Then I noticed that a common reason to pick up the phone is to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars. It’s read only, but it prevents a lot of device checking.

Cannot recommend enough restructuring physical reality to not have device on your person at home. It also helps the kids to put theirs away and learn good habits.

[swatcoder]

> to check the calendar. I ended up hanging a monitor on the wall, displaying the family month/agenda calendars

I hear the ancients had their own crude technology for this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_(stationery)

[yagyu]

You come off as snarky, but I kind of agree. We tried this first.

It turns out digital collaborative calendars are pretty great for us in general, there is no chance in hell I could keep the analog one up to date, so it was definitely worth having a screen on the wall.

[golergka]

This one will not display an invitation that was in an email you forgot to even open.

[swatcoder]

That sounds like a great feature to me

[hammock]

What alarm clock did you get? Curious

And great insight about the calendar. That's the #1 reason why I keep my phone near me (thereby facilitating all the unwanted behaviors)

[hbn]

Not the GP but I use a simple wake up light alarm that was a game-changer for me in winters when a blaring alarm yanking me awake to a pitch-black room was not a great way to start the day, especially before going out into the -40° cold to scrape my car off.

A half hour before the alarm goes off, it slowly gets brighter which I find simulates the sun rising enough to be a more pleasant waking experience. Plus I set the alarm sound itself to bird chirps, starting with 1 or 2 birds and growing into a whole chorus (I'm usually up before then)

[yagyu]

To answer the q above, this is what we have, too.

[yohannparis]

I personally use the Braun, because it does not have a snooze function. Just one big button on the top to turn it on/off. Run on a single AAA battery for months. Only problem is no backlighting, so no way to read time in the middle of the night. For me that's a feature not a bug. https://us.braun-clocks.com/collections/clocks/products/bc12...

[Sander3Utile]

Not op but I just got a home-pod mini and just ask Siri “Hey Siri - set an alarm for …” or “Hey Siri - what time is it”. Added benefit of not having a glowing LED light in my room at night

[Mainsail]

Okay, I've always hesitated to do this because Siri sometimes set some weird alarms for me. I'll have to give it another shot.

[yapyap]

Replacing that monitor with an e-ink device could be interesting

[skeeter2020]

or buy a day planner for $3. or print a weekly TODO list and mark it up with pen/pencil

[marliechiller]

great until I add something to my digital calendar when im out and I forget to update it, or my wife adds something to her calendar and doesnt use the shared calendar :/

[dredmorbius]

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42798865>

(Final 'graph especially.)

Addresses your first point.

For the second: communication.

[MartijnHols]

My main problem doing this is with certain 2FA (like Microsoft) forcing use of their 2FA app so I have to pick it up regularly.