I have added alot of useful apps to the kompakt to make it a tool, I am now thinking of adding email, now the thing with email is I don’t get lots of emails, I would never add my work email (I am quitting my job very soon) I would just be adding outlook lite, and for me the useful thing of having email is when I purchase a movie ticket have the QR code to scan
For anyone that has added email to the kompakt did you find it a distraction?
My gut is telling me it won’t be for me because I just don’t use it a lot, if I do its for legit important emails it would not be a time waster
For me again it would be something that I add, but I force stop it and have it hidden only opening it when absolutely required
I sideloaded ProtonMail just to try. The notifications don’t work at all, not even a beep, you have to open the app to see any new mail. So I consider that a good thing.
This is a completely new email that nobody has, I am just automatically forwarding important emails from my main Gmail account. Like certain important people or important clients.
This hasn’t caused any distractions, in fact it has helped me not to worry if I have received feedback/replies when I’m away from my home/laptop.
I don’t send email through it, it’s for reading purposes only.
Yeah that is what I am thinking as well, I have sideloaded outlook but as I mentioned force stopped it and hidden it, I feel like the past 4 years of using dumbphones has really rewired my brain to an extent, that combined with the eink of the kompakt prevents any sort of habit forming loops, I guess I always prided myself on having a pure dumb phone lol, but I have to be honest this minimalist middle ground is much better. I will test out email and see if my habits change, I am worried that if I am bored I will go and mindlessly check it , will see I will test it out for a few days if I notice myself going back into old patterns I will delete it.
Trying to avoid going on a tangent here (tangents are my superpower), it depends how much you need to have access to e-mail when you’re on the go, away from the computer.
Personally, I had e-mails on my smartphone because yeah, you had to log in so you had e-mail access anyway. With a smartphone always by your side, it was cool to be able to respond to stuff etc. But when you remember a mobile phone is a device, you carry by your side most of the time, you may want to ditch anything unnecessary that would drive you away from the present by notifications or by sole capability of looking after e-mails in this not too comfy way. My take is: a phone is to be something available for instant and urgent communications - e-mail definitely falls outside of that criteria.
On the other hand, if a risk of doom scrolling and spending too much time is none in particular case, then fine, no real cost of sideloading it (maybe besides battery).
As a three-year Sunbeam Wireless flip-phone user, I have trained friends and relatives not to expect me to get email on my F1 Orchid, as it cannot.
I enjoy a “digital sabbath” each Saturday, and I enjoy saying on Saturdays, “I do not check email past 5 PM on Fridays, so, if you emailed something to me last evening, then I will not see it until tomorrow. In the future, if the matter is urgent after 5 on Fridays, then please call me.”
I have continued this “Sorry, I don’t get email on my cellphone!” tradition with my Kompakt, on which I will not be sideloading an email application.
So after work I went for a walk, and I kid you not, 3 mins into it, I had this urge to check if I got an email, so I went into the App manager app I have sideloaded and removed outlook immediately, I do not want email on the Kompakt, Don’t need it. It was amazing how just knowing I had it on my phone, the reward center of my brain just started lighting up wondering did I get an email?
Felt so much better the moment I removed outlook and I continued to enjoy my walk
I use the same approach as @gezimos, which in my case means:
My e-mail arrives to my “main” e-mail address, which I can access from my computer and from my smartphone.
On my Kompakt, I have e-mail but logged in with an e-mail address that is just for me, from me. If I get anything that I will need “when using only the Kompakt” (in your case, say tickets), I will forward that specific e-mail to that address.
I know that there will be no other e-mails there, so no need to “check if I’ve got new e-mail”, but I still have that specific e-mail with me.
Also: My Kompakt and my smartphone are mine.
Work e-mail goes to my work-smartphone
(and here in Sweden, people would be surprised if they were expected to use their private devices for work purposes).
I only read and reply to emails on my laptop now. And I only check it every few days. Everyone in my circle knows this, and the order of priority is clearly defined. If it’s really important, they call me. If it’s not quite as urgent, they send a text message, to which I usually respond the same day. Anything that can wait is handled via email or Telegram, which I’ve also installed on my laptop.
On weekends, I’m generally unavailable by email or cell phone, because I turn them off. The people closest to me have my landline number in case of an emergency.
This works great for me. Checking email on my smartphone used to be stressful, and I always felt the urge to check it.
I use Proton Drive on my Kompakt. Whenever I want to upload a file to my phone, I just add it to this drive. It works great! I bet this would be good way to have access to e-tickets without actually having to have an e-mail app on your phone , you just need to remember to upload them to your drive.
Another thing I did: I took a screenshot of the barcodes/QR codes for my loyalty cards that were on my iPhone, turned them into an epub file using a online tool an uploaded it onto my Kompakt. I can open this file in the ereader app (or KOreader, which is what I use instead), flip to the correct card and scan it. Easy!
I still use my old iPhone at home for checking my mail, banking, to access the for my kids’ school’s communication app, discord, order groceries or other products, etc. It basically functions as a small tablet and lives in one place in my house. This has helped me stay off it even when I’m home. And yeah, I notice that whenever it is within hand’s reach, I definitely get the urge to check my email and other messages. So I make sure only my Kompakt is in my pocket, even at home. This has really helped me kick the habit of constantly checking messages/emails/immediately googling anything that pops into my head.
Yeah I will never put email on my kompakt unless I am forced to by my future job, and even then I can use the kompakt as a hotspot and just check email on the laptop. A browser and email are two things I just refuse to put on my kompakt. To me they just invite me for a dopamine hit when I am bored
