Unlit journal
Writing.
Notes on attention, habit and the way phones are designed, plus the occasional technical piece about how Unlit works. Everything here is written to be useful even if you never install anything, and every claim that comes from research has the study attached.
- 01
How to reduce screen time on Android, without an app that shouts at you
Most screen time advice is either willpower or a blocker that locks you out and then nags. The research points somewhere else entirely.
9 min
- 02
How to hide apps on Android without uninstalling them
There are five methods that work and one that everybody tries first and that does nothing. Which you want depends on what you mean by hidden.
8 min
- 03
How to lock an Android screen without the power button
There are two ways Android lets an app lock your screen. One of them quietly destroys fingerprint unlock, and almost no guide mentions it.
8 min
- 04
Does grayscale actually reduce screen time? What the research says
The advice has been passed around for years with no numbers attached. There are now numbers, and the most useful one is a null result.
10 min
- 05
How to turn your phone into a dumb phone, in stages
You do not need to buy a Light Phone, and you probably should not. There are six stages before that, each one reversible in about a minute.
10 min
- 06
Why Unlit has no internet permission, and what that actually guarantees
Most privacy claims are promises. This one is a missing line in a file, and the operating system does the enforcing.
10 min