This is actually pretty brilliant and innovative.
With other solutions, the “key” that re-enables distractions is always present. Brick allows you to leave that key behind, turning your phone into a new, distraction-free device until you return.
This tickles some part of my brain… The scanning part is so cool. Would you use an app like this?
I just disable all notifications for everything, and turn off all push notifications as well.
If I need to know something, I’ll manually go check for it.
According to my usage, I use my phone only 2 hours a day
Turning off push notifications is a large step. I did that for personal profile stuff and I’m down to 0 usage on FB, limited on Instagram (boss sends me stuff once in a while), some on Lemmy and Mastodon. Work profile has push notifications but is limited to certain hours only. Helps a ton.