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In addition to removing the distraction altogether, a friend recently showed me you can put your phone display into "Greyscale" mode.

This has an immediate effect of being less pop-y and engaging. Big red banners are meaningless. The lack of colors make you want to engage less. It truly broke a bunch of odd habits for me.

Worth giving it a shot.

https://gist.github.com/jj1bdx/a514530f4f67a744526644527a12f...

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I tried that for a week. Couldn't get used to it. I found that too many apps use color for important distinctions, which they shouldn't because of colorblind people, but it is what it is.

It would be great if apps could know the display is in grayscale mode (perhaps it is?) so they could switch to a more appropriate design.

My Nexus 5x doesn't have option to enable gray-scale, but I tried color correction settings for color blindness. Colors are there, but a bit washed out for Protanomaly. Will see how it goes.

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