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
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Temporarily I’m testing something with email.
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.
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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.
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I’m only receiving like 10 emails per week with my workaround, and only look at it when I’m far away from home for more than 1 night.
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Yeah I will see if I keep it on, I do have a icky feeling having it on there lol
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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). 
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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.
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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
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