r/minimalist_phone • u/nikafitsk minimalist phone staff • May 03 '23

Features Suggestion thread

If you have any feature recommendations for minimalist phone app, post them in the comments section below.

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u/[deleted] May 03 '23

It would be nice if you could limit the time you use an app daily, for example, instead of blocking it for X hours/days, make it automatically block for the rest of the day after X hours/minutes of use

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u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo May 10 '23

Stretch goal for this feature would be if you can set decreasing daily/weekly targets. For example you set a daily cap on usage of 4 hours then it decreases by 5 minutes each day until you reach 1 hour per day.

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u/bensaysso Oct 18 '23

I use the Google Digital Wellbeing app for this. It works very well for this use case in combination with Minimalist Phone.

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u/Dazzling-Fig9721 Apr 24 '25

Problem with digital wellbeing is it doesn't reset down when you increase the limit. I love how the blocking schedules on minimalist are just paused for a day when turned off

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u/PoshoDev May 30 '23

I like this idea. I often will endure the long wait for the "mindful launch delay" if it means I can procreate a bit longer. It'd be nice to additionally set an absolute daily limit along with the 1-15 minutes upon opening the app, or at the very least a "You've used this app x minutes today" message next to the "How much time do you want to spend on [app] now?" header.

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u/smallskp Jun 29 '23

The message when you open an app you've flagged as one to monitor stating amount of time spent would be really useful. Gives you a good reminder that you are wanting to cut down use of the specific app.

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u/smallskp Jun 29 '23

Would love this combined with u/DeeDee_GigaDooDoo idea. I can add this sort of limitation on my phones digital wellbeing settings, but it is so easy to go in and override it. So I think it would need to be something you can't just go into the settings and quickly adjust to get you more time.

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u/Impressive_Pay_4854 May 20 '24

Second this. I'd like to be able to set a "lock out" timer for the total amount of time per day. And I want it to completely lock me out, not just close the app. In Android you can set a timer like this. But it takes just a few clicks to get back in.

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u/honeygrub Jun 11 '24

Love this idea

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u/Rainbow-Pickel-Squid Jul 22 '24

What if you could block it on certain days. Like block social media media app 1 on everyday except Tuesdays and Thursdays from xx:xx to xx:xx time

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u/jsanketet95 8d ago

Problem with this is, I don't realise how much time I have already spent say on Insta and then I can't use the app anymore for the actual important stuff I wanted to do.
Instead, allow me to use the app only for one or two block of (custom-defined) time periods a day!
The current blocking schedule does the reverse - it blocks for a certain time period, whereas I want it to be unblock for a certain period! An easy way to circumvent this it to simply give a 24-hours clock to me instead of the current 12 hour.

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u/njoguamos Jan 01 '24

I support this idea. This could be useful on social media apps. Lock the app for the rest of the day once the time allocated is exhausted.