Ayanokoji's Phone Setup - Turn your Phone into a PRODUCTIVITY Machine

Summary

This video introduces the 'Phone Optimizing Protocol' used by successful individuals to maximize productivity and minimize distractions. Key strategies include manually powering on the phone, organizing apps logically, disabling notifications and icon badges, deleting unused apps, and using Focus modes to align your mindset with your tasks. Additionally, using a motivational background and setting the phone to grayscale can further reduce distractions and enhance productivity.

Takeaways

• 🔒 Turn off 'Raise to Wake' and 'Touch to Wake' to make your phone require manual power button press to activate.
• 📁 Organize your apps logically and keep important ones easily accessible on the home screen to reduce distractions.
• 🛑 Disable notifications and icon badges to minimize unnecessary visual stimuli and stress.
• 🗑 Delete unused apps to declutter your phone and improve its performance, enhancing productivity.
• 🎯 Use Focus modes to create different setups for work, fitness, and relaxation, aligning your mindset with your current activity.
• 🤳 Set a motivational background, such as a selfie from an earlier time, to remind you of your goals every time you unlock your phone.
• ⚫️ Make your phone background black and white to reduce dopamine release and make social media less enticing.
• 📱 Implementing these strategies will help you control your phone instead of letting it control you.
• 🛠️ Customize your phone's settings to support productivity and reinforce the mode you're in, such as work or relaxation.
• 🔄 Regularly review and adjust your phone setup to ensure it continues to support your goals and productivity.

Q & A

What is the main purpose of the phone optimizing protocol discussed in the video?

The main purpose of the phone optimizing protocol is to reduce distractions and increase productivity by controlling how and when one interacts with their phone.

Why is it suggested to disable 'raise to wake' and 'touch to wake' on your phone?

Disabling 'raise to wake' and 'touch to wake' increases the difficulty to engage with the phone, which makes one less likely to mindlessly pick it up and get distracted.

How can organizing your phone apps logically help in reducing distractions?

Organizing apps logically and keeping important ones easily accessible on the home screen reduces the friction of accessing time-consuming apps, thus acting as a micro barrier to prevent unnecessary distractions.

What is the role of disabling notifications and icon badges as per the protocol?

Disabling notifications and icon badges removes unnecessary visual stimuli, which prevents stress accumulation from seeing accumulating numbers and helps in maintaining focus.

Why should you delete apps that you haven't used in a long time?

Deleting unused apps not only speeds up the phone but also eliminates potential triggers that could pull you away from your work and reduce productivity.

What is the benefit of using Focus modes on your phone?

Focus modes help reinforce the mindset for different activities by creating specific setups for work, fitness, or relaxation, which can enhance productivity and commitment to the task at hand.

How can changing your phone background to an old selfie motivate you?

Using an old selfie as the phone background provides a visual reminder of the person you're working for, which can serve as a quick motivation boost and a reminder of your goals.

What is the suggested last step to optimize your phone for productivity?

The last step is to make your phone black and white by enabling grayscale in the accessibility settings, which limits the dopamine release from the phone and makes scrolling on social media less appealing.

Why is it important to manually press the power button to turn on your phone?

Requiring manual pressing of the power button acts as a micro barrier, preventing mindless engagement with the phone and promoting more intentional use.

How can structuring your apps in folders help with productivity?

Structuring apps in folders reduces the likelihood of getting distracted while navigating to the desired app, as the extra swipe to access folders adds a small barrier to accessing less important apps.

Outlines

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📱 Your Phone: Friend or Foe?

This paragraph introduces the concept that your phone can either help or hinder your productivity. The video will discuss a 'phone optimizing protocol' used by successful individuals to minimize distractions and enhance focus. It emphasizes that most people aren't willing to optimize their phone usage like this, but viewers are encouraged to adopt this approach to stop being distracted by their phones.

🔒 Power Button as a Barrier

The first step in the phone optimization protocol is to disable automatic features like 'raise to wake' and 'touch to wake.' This creates a small barrier, requiring you to manually press the power button, which reduces the chances of mindlessly picking up your phone and engaging in bad habits.

📂 Organize Your Apps for Efficiency

To further optimize your phone, organize your apps logically and place important ones on the home screen. This makes it easier to access necessary apps while creating micro barriers, like swiping to reach distracting apps. Grouping apps into folders can also reduce the likelihood of distraction when navigating from one app to another.

🔕 Disable Notifications & Icon Badges

Disabling notifications and icon badges is another key step in controlling phone usage. Notifications and badge icons act as visual stimuli, adding unnecessary stress. By disabling them, you take control of your phone, instead of letting your phone control you. This also removes the temptation to get distracted.

🗑️ Delete Unused Apps

Another important step is to delete random, unused apps. These apps slow down your phone and serve as potential distractions. Don’t hesitate to remove them since they can be easily reinstalled if needed. This helps declutter your phone and reduce the number of triggers for procrastination.

🔄 Leveraging Focus Modes

For times when you find yourself in a 'half work, half chill' state, use Focus modes on your phone. These modes can be customized for work, fitness, or relaxation, allowing you to switch easily between different setups that align with specific mindsets. The key is to keep the setups simple, as minimal distractions lead to better productivity.

📸 Motivational Background

Your phone background can be used for motivation. For instance, you could use a selfie of an older version of yourself for a week as a reminder of why you're working hard. This visual prompt encourages you to stay focused, reminding you that your future self’s success is dependent on the actions you take now.

🌑 Set Your Phone to Black and White

The final step is to turn your phone display to grayscale. Removing color limits the dopamine rush from scrolling through social media, making it less enjoyable and, therefore, reducing your screen time. This simple change can drastically reduce how often you mindlessly check your phone.

Keywords

💡Phone Optimizing Protocol

This refers to a set of practices designed to make your phone less distracting and more efficient for productive tasks. The video explains that by following this protocol, successful individuals reduce distractions, increase focus, and improve productivity. Key actions include modifying settings like notifications and app layouts.

💡Micro Barriers

Micro barriers are small obstacles introduced to make unproductive behaviors harder to engage in. For example, turning off features like 'raise to wake' or 'touch to wake' creates a micro barrier, making it slightly more difficult to mindlessly access the phone, thus discouraging distractions.

💡Notifications

Notifications refer to the alerts and prompts sent by apps to capture the user's attention. The video emphasizes disabling notifications to prevent distractions and stress, arguing that if you allow them, your phone controls you rather than the other way around.

💡Icon Badges

Icon badges are visual indicators on app icons that show the number of unread messages, updates, or tasks. The video suggests disabling them to reduce unnecessary visual stimuli that can trigger stress or distraction, making you less productive.

💡Focus Modes

Focus modes are personalized phone settings that allow you to limit distractions by blocking certain apps or notifications during specific tasks, like work or fitness. The video highlights using these modes to help maintain a proper mindset, reinforcing your focus for the task at hand.

💡App Organization

This concept involves structuring apps logically on your phone’s home screen. The video recommends putting the most important apps in easy reach and grouping time-consuming apps into folders, adding friction to their access, and helping reduce distractions.

💡Background Motivation

Using your phone's background for motivation involves selecting an image that inspires you toward your goals. The video suggests using an edited picture of an older version of yourself as a way to remind yourself why you're working hard, adding a personal motivation boost.

💡Grayscale Mode

Grayscale mode refers to setting your phone display to black-and-white. This reduces the color stimuli that make apps and content more visually appealing, thus decreasing the dopamine-driven urge to mindlessly scroll through apps like Instagram or YouTube, leading to fewer distractions.

💡Deleting Unused Apps

This concept involves removing apps from your phone that you haven't used in a long time. The video explains that these unused apps can slow down your phone and act as potential distractions, so deleting them enhances both performance and focus.

💡Mindless Phone Use

Mindless phone use refers to engaging with your phone without a specific purpose, often driven by habit rather than need. The video discusses strategies like adding micro barriers and organizing apps to minimize mindless use, keeping the phone from becoming a distraction.

Highlights

Optimizing your phone can be key to productivity and success.

Manual power button press acts as a micro barrier to mindless phone use.

Disabling 'raise to wake' and 'touch to wake' can reduce distractions.

Organize apps logically and prioritize important ones on the home screen.

Creating micro barriers with app folders can minimize distractions.

Disable notifications and icon badges to prevent stress and control your phone.

Delete unused apps to improve phone performance and reduce distractions.

Use Focus modes to create different setups for work, fitness, and relaxation.

Having a thoughtful phone background can serve as a motivation boost.

Using a selfie of an older version of yourself as a background can remind you of your goals.

Making your phone black and white can limit dopamine release and reduce social media appeal.

Enabling grayscale mode in settings can make scrolling less enticing.

Control your phone instead of letting it control you by managing notifications and apps.

Different Focus modes can reinforce the mindset needed for productivity.

A clutter-free phone with only essential apps can improve focus and efficiency.

The phone background can be a visual reminder of personal and professional goals.

Limiting the dopamine response from your phone can help in reducing unnecessary screen time.

Transcripts

your phone could either be your greatest

friend or your worst enemy in this video

you are going to learn about the phone

optimizing protocol which all successful

people have leveraged to get to where

they are having a phone set up exactly

like a aoji is something most are not

willing to do but you are not just some

average guy are you this protocol is the

key to stop getting distracted by your

phone like a little boy so listen

carefully till the end of the video the

first thing you need to do is to make it

so your phone only turns on when you

manually press the power button this is

so important because increasing the

difficulty to engage in bad habits makes

you significant less likely to do them

you having to manually press the power

button acts as a micro barrier stopping

you from mindlessly picking up your

phone for no reason all you have to do

is to disable the race to wake and touch

to wake options on your phone next you

need to organize your phone to do that

structure your apps logically and make

the most important ones be easily

accessible on your home screen the

friction of doing the extra swipe to go

to timec consuming apps acts as another

micro barrier and having your app

structured in a folder makes you less

likely to get distracted on your way

from your home screen to the app you

should also disable notifications and

icon badges icon badges are unnecessary

visual stimuli and disabling them

prevents you from accumulating stress

just by looking at those numbers adding

up the truth is that if you don't

disable notifications and icon badges

you are not controlling your phone

instead your phone is the one

controlling you moreover delete all

random apps that you have not used in a

long time but that are still installed

on your phone these apps not only make

your phone slower but they also act as

potential triggers to pull you off your

work and kill your productivity don't be

shy of getting rid of old stuff remember

that in case you really need one of

these apps in the future you can always

install them again have you ever had the

problem of not being fully committed to

a certain mode for example when you are

trying to do work you are in this half

work half chill state where you still

have YouTube or Discord open if that

ever happens to you this trick will be

very helpful you need to start

leveraging Focus modes for example you

could create Focus modes for work

Fitness and also a chill mode what you

include in these modes is very

individual as a general rule of thumb

the less the better these modes are

helpful because a big part of

productivity is mindset and having

different setups reinforces the the idea

of what mode your brain should be in now

let's talk about your phone background I

think you are missing the opportunity

for a quick motivation boost if you

don't have a thoughtful background one

idea could be that for one week you put

a selfie of an old version of yourself

as your background you can do that quite

effortlessly with face app now every

time you open your phone you can see for

whom you're doing the hard work do you

want your grandpa version to have had a

successful life and is scrolling on

Instagram helping you achieve that the

last thing you can do to optimize your

phone for productivity is to make it

black and white this limits the dopamine

you get from your phone and will make

scrolling on social media a lot less fun

the setup is very simple go to settings

and click on accessibility next go to

display and text size and then color

filters lastly select gray

scale