No, of course I am not seriously offline. But something of that calm from the end of October has stuck around, helped by the intense being in the present of Øredev.
I am spending a little less time with podcasts reflexively in my ears.
I sometimes go for music instead(!)
I have spent a bit more time during the weekends watching longer-form moving images, instead of flipping between small things.
I have watched these things without also watching another thing for distraction on a smaller screen.
And I try to less often reflexively check various sources for little updates. I at least seem to have broken my Mastodon completionist urge. Now, I read up on, at most, the batch of 30-odd messages my Mastodon app seems to load as a default, and
I do not click to load more to fill in the whole gap.
Little things. Perhaps not even much difference at all in total device time. But it feels ever so slightly calmer, and I want all of that I can get.
Especially when it is not dramatic to do so.
Small note-taking joys
Realizing it is a good time to make a separate note for something, creating that note, then immediately recalling more things you want to write down in it. The act of capturing a thought making me think more thoughts worth capturing. Such a nice little feeling.