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Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - jettyke - 2011-12-06

How can owning a smartphone make your life more productive? Comfortable? Easier?

How can owning a smartphone make your life actually less productive? Uncomfortable? Difficult/stressful?

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Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - pudding cat - 2011-12-06

It can definitely make your life easier. Particularly things like syncing calendars, anki and looking stuff up on the internet on the go like train/bus timetables, map directions etc.

I suppose it could cut into your productivity as you could spend a lot of time on it playing games or whatever but that's not to do with the phone, that's to do with your self-control. I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - jettyke - 2011-12-06

pudding cat Wrote:I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.
If you start spending to much time on your smartphone/ dive into the world of the smartphone and don't get important things done, you might become stressful.

As a smartphone has many functions it might be uncomfortable to use it for the sake of doing 1 task, fe calling:

You might turn the phone on, and then will start checking facebook and twitter, mixi or start listening to music just after calling.
It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - pudding cat - 2011-12-06

jettyke Wrote:
pudding cat Wrote:I can't imagine how it would make your life uncomfortable or stressful. How you use it is up to you.
If you start spending to much time on your smartphone/ dive into the world of the smartphone and don't get important things done, you might become stressful.
True, but only if you have no self-control/time management skills. It's kind of your fault and not the smartphone's.

jettyke Wrote:As a smartphone has many functions it might be uncomfortable to use it for the sake of doing 1 task, fe calling:

You might turn the phone on, and then will start checking facebook and twitter, mixi or start listening to music just after calling.
It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")
Again all true but as I said it's up to your self-control. If you have none then getting a smartphone may not be the best idea.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - prink - 2011-12-06

You can study anywhere, and that's pretty much what I do everywhere thanks to my iPhone. I had class today from 9am to 3:45, and I got 412 Anki reviews done in that time in between classes and while commuting.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - nohika - 2011-12-06

jettyke Wrote:It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")
Simple. Don't link facebook/twitter/whatever to your phone. I have a facebook account, but one thing I REFUSE to do is link my phone to them. I have a smartphone and enjoy the portability it gives me to use Anki, use the internet, etc. I refuse to let it rule me, though.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - jettyke - 2011-12-07

nohika Wrote:
jettyke Wrote:It might become a chain of processes that come consequently after making 1 call ( just because you already have the smartphone in your hand after making a call, you might think" as I already have it in my hand, why not check a couple of comments on facebook?")
Simple. Don't link facebook/twitter/whatever to your phone. I have a facebook account, but one thing I REFUSE to do is link my phone to them. I have a smartphone and enjoy the portability it gives me to use Anki, use the internet, etc. I refuse to let it rule me, though.
Maybe then it would be good to only have applications that you really need installed, without any additional ones ( that are not really necessary). Just to not get out of control.

For example:

Anki
Google calendar
Evernote
Google maps
Aedict (japanese dictionary)
Music/podcast player

What I like is that owning a smartphone saves physical space.
You don't have to own a notebook, a deshijisho a laptop for anki, and a mobile phone separately, but you can use them all on the same device.

But the key is to use a smartphone for your own benefit and not let yourself get being used by it. And the question is.

What are good things/apps to have on a smartphone?
What are bad things to have on a smartphone?
no doubt it varies greatly from person to person but...

How to make the most of owning a smartphone?

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - undead_saif - 2011-12-07

jettyke Wrote:How to make the most of owning a smartphone?
I think this is an essential and very important question and so it deserves a separate thread, more specifically for learning Japanese.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - astendra - 2011-12-07

Just install what you need, remove anything too distracting, and learn to use airplane mode when you don't want people calling you or whatever.

Smartphones & Productivity.Pros & Cons - jettyke - 2012-01-14

undead_saif Wrote:
jettyke Wrote:How to make the most of owning a smartphone?
I think this is an essential and very important question and so it deserves a separate thread, more specifically for learning Japanese.
You're right. I will make a new one afterall.