The Phone Holder

Weirdly life-improving thing. I have a Lamicall gooseneck phone holder clamped to a shelf and bent over so the holder is to the right of and flush with my external monitor in the office. Which means, when a notification goes off, I can just look up instead of picking up the phone from wherever I’ve left it in here. The lockscreen essentially becomes a personal news ticker. When I have to leave the office briefly to make coffee or grab food or whatever, it stays in the holder instead of being stuffed into a shirt pocket. This is interesting to me because it breaks me of the whole “must have phone at all times” thing. I could put on the Apple Watch and still be connected during those five- or ten-minute spaces away from the device, I suppose. But, a month into using the holder, I find I usually don’t bother.

The Lamicall I have is currently sixteen quid in the UK (link) and this looks like the US one (link). It’s a five-minute set-up. And using it shows me exactly how much I acclimated to touching a phone at all times. Bad.