naveen @ naveen.com ^archived: i started a new practice around this time last year: i wanted to rely less on my phone and i wanted to cut back on distractions during the day. so i turned off almost all notifications on my iPhone (and my computer).

i've actually been doing exactly that for a few weeks now. all those iphone notifications can get pretty annoying, so i just turned them all off for a while to figure out over time which ones i actually need.

i recently brought this idea to bed: instead of using an alarm clock, i sometimes wake up with the Jawbone UP’s alarm. it vibrates softly on your wrist and nudges you out of bed; there are no noises. a bonus is that there’s no option to snooze with this method: there’s no chance for me to stagger my wake-up nine minutes at a time. the more i got used to vibrate-as-alarm, the more i fell in love with this type of signal. if it vibrates during the day, it means that i’ve been idle and that i should move more. if it vibrates early in the morning, it’s time to wake up.

i've also been using the up for a little while now. besides the fitness aspect, the feature i find most useful is definitely the alarm.