Screentime Log

[soos_mite_ah]

7/30/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 58 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 42 min 

• Mostly music

Instagram: 52 min 

• I was sporadically checking this throughout the day but I will say a solid 36 of those minutes was recently between 9 and 11 pm. I think I want to cut down on the sporadic usage going forward and be a bit more intentional if I'm going to block off time. I think my mentality when I find myself looking at this and Tiktok sporadically is like I scroll for 2 minutes, then I'm like *oh, I'm not supposed to be doing this, let me find other ways to regulate myself*, and then I close out of the app. I think this is just part of the process of me decreasing my social media usage but it's another metric that I can be mindful of.

Tiktok: 14 min 

• Again, sporadic usage. 

Hexa Sort: 25 min 

• I was playing this as I was on the phone with my boyfriend. 

Safari: 16 min 

• I just viewed the forum briefly in the morning while I was at work. 

[soos_mite_ah]

7/31/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 13 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 27 min 

• Most of this was music, about an hour of this was poltical content on Youtube. 

Hexa Sort: 28 min 

• I played this for like 7 minutes during a boring meeting at work and for like 21 minutes while I was watching Youtube videos. 

Instagram: 27 min 

• spent like 12 minutes on it in the morning and like 15 minutes on it after work

Tiktok: 9 min 

• I just spent this time at like 12:01 am before I tried to go to sleep last night. So technically this falls under today because of the time but in my mind, this is for yesterday lol. 

Thoughts: I think my phone usage was pretty tame today. I think part of that is because I has some family social stuff going on and because work generally kept me busy. 

Edited Saturday at 05:20 AM by soos_mite_ah

[soos_mite_ah]

8/01/2025 

Screentime: 4 hours 30 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 49 min 

• Pretty much all music 

Instagram: 59 min 

• Very sporadic: 
  • 7am - 8am : 6 min 
  • 8am- 9am: 18 min (calls were slow at work and I had nothing better to do lol) 
  • 11 am - 12 pm: 10 min (another period of slowness) 
  • 12 pm -1pm : 1 min 
  • 1pm - 2pm: 2 min
  • 5pm - 6pm: 2 min 
  • 7pm - 8 pm: 1 min
  • 8pm - 9pm: 10 min (I was at my uncle's house bored lol)
• I need to learn how to better deal with boredom lol. 

Messages: 30 min 

• sent a couple audio messages to a friend going through something

Hexa Sort: 25 min

• played like 15 min in the afternoon to decompress from my day and like 10 min in the morning 

Tiktok: 18 min 

• checked it in the morning for like 6 min and spent like 10 min on it in the afternoon. 
  • Ngl, I do get weirded out when I notice that I'm on social media at like 7 am in the morning whenever I do these logs and I actually write things out and bring my habits to light. 

Photos: 15 min

• scrolled through my camera roll and deleted some things. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/2/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 17 min 

Youtube: 1 hour 38 min

• watched a few video essays 

Safari: 1 hour 12 min 

• I don't think this is an accurate number. It says that I spent an hour on Safari from 9 pm-10pm. I checked a couple things online but I wasn't on there the entire hour. I think I just had the app open. Plus, if this were the case, my screentime would add up to more than the 3 hours and 17 min shown after taking the other apps to consideration. 

Instagram: 37 min

• I checked Instagram from 1am to 2am in the morning for 7 min, from 5pm -6pm for 10 min, from 8pm -9pm for 10 min, and from 9pm to 10pm for another 10 min. 

Hexa Sort: 26 min

• I was playing this in the evening while listening to a video essay.   

Tiktok: 21 min 

• I spent this time from 10-12pm. 

Thoughts: My screentime felt kind of low today. Usually that is the case if I have a packed or social day but I didn't do jack shit today. I spent a lot of time just relaxing tbh and I think it's a good sign that I'm able to relax without zoning out in front of a screen. I was also playing around with the settings on my phone and I saw that there is a way to disable your phone usuage between certain hours of the day.  This is with the exception of a couple of communication apps, the clock app, and maps. I'm going to try that out by disabling my phone usage from 10 pm to 9 am in the morning. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/3/2025

Screentime:  2 hours 55 min 

Tiktok: 45 min 

• I hit up against my limit and decided to stop then and there. 
• This wasn't sporadic. This happened between 11am to 1pm. 

Maps: 40 min 

• I went to a coffee shop like 20 min away from my home and so I needed the GPS to navigate there and back. 

Messages: 32 min 

• Talked to a few people and responded to some messages 

Instagram: 15 min 

• This was very sporadic. From 10 am to 11am, I spent 2 min on the app. From 11am to 12pm it was 2 min. From 1pm to 2pm it was 1 min. From 3pm to 4pm it was 1 min. From 5pm to 6pm it was 9 min.
  • I guess since the algorithm isn't tailored to me, I don't get sucked into it in the way that TikTok sucks me in and that's why my use is more sporadic. Still, I feel like a crackhead when I keep checking like this even if I'm not spending an extend period of time on the app.  

Safari: 7 min 

• Had a couple of random google searches. 

[soos_mite_ah]

8/4/2025 

Screentime: 5 hours 27 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 32 min 

• I did listen to a lot of video essays while working. 

Hexa Sort: 1 hour 21 min 

• I don't trust this number because it says I was on Hexa Sort for 53 minutes between 8-9pm. I think I just had the app open but I wasn't using this. 

Tiktok: 56 min 

• I found that most of this was right at my lunch hour. 

Tetris: 43 min 

• It says the entire duration was between 8-9pm. I think I played it for a few minutes and the app was just left open.

Instagram: 17 min 

• This was pretty sporadic throughout the day. 

Thoughts: I think I was just having an existential crisis this day so I was seeking out content and understanding to cope. I can't say that I felt good, but I didn't feel bad either. 

 

 

8/5/2025 

Screentime: 3 hours 44 min 

Youtube: 3 hours 

• mostly music with a couple video essays sprinkled in. 

Notes: 1 hour 10 min

• I spent some time on it to create a grocery list and go shopping. But it says I was on it for 55 min ffrom 5-6 pm which doesn't add up. 

Instagram: 1 hour 3 min 

• It says that I checked it for 8 min between 4-5pm which checks out. But it also says I was on there for 55 min between 5-6pm. I was cooking dinner at that time.  

Threads: 55 min 

• The entire amount was between 5 and 6pm. Again, I was cooking dinner during that time. I was not on Threads. Maybe I checked it for like 10 min but then I left the app open?

Safari: 14 min 

• Gonna be honest, I just watched some porn. That's it. 

Thoughts: I think the final screentime amount makes sense if I was on Youtube for 3 hours, on Safari for 14 min, and spent a total of 30 min on Notes, Instagram, and Threads combined. But the amount of time on some of these individual apps just doesn't make sense at all. 

 

 

8/6/2025

Screentime: 4 hours 16 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 

• majority was music

Maps: 46 min 

• needed some help navigating 

Tiktok: 26 min 

• I checked it once between 12am and 1am for 7 min when I couldn't sleep and then for like 19 min between 7pm and 8pm. 

Messages: 17 min 

• I was just texting people back and forth throughout the day.

Instagram 9 min 

• I checked it for 2 min between 1 and 2pm, for 4 min between 3 and 4pm , and for 3 min between 6 and 7 pm. 

 

8/7/2025

Screentime: 3 hours 34 min 

Youtube: 2 hours 

• pretty much all music

Tiktok: 46 min

• I just didn't feel like working today so I had a series of Tiktok breaks lol. 

Settings: 18 min 

• This is all from me using this app to figure out my screentime as I'm journaling. 

Clock: 15 min 

• Used a timer a few times throughout the day

Instagram: 6 min 

• Just checked it once between 8-9 pm 

[soos_mite_ah]

1 Month Check In

On 7/13/2025 at 1:06 PM, soos_mite_ah said:

Basic Goals

1. Continue to track your screentime usage. 
2. Aim for your combined time for TikTok and Instagram to be less than an hour. This is will also limit mindless doomscrolling. 
3. Stop using social media to manage negative emotions, manage overstimulation, or manage restlessness/understimulation. 
4. Limit non music related Youtube use.  Start reading instead. 
5. Buy a dumb phone after the above is under control. 

I have been tracking my phone screentime for about a month now. I think I have seen a gradual decrease where before my average screentime was like 5 hours a day and now it's more like 3.5 to 4 hours a day. I think that's good progress so far.  I think I have also cut down on a lot of problematic social media usuage like explained in #2 and #3. However, I feel like I can do better. Unfortunately, I can't say that I have been reading all that much. 

 

I think I would transition into buying a dumb phone once my screentime dips into the 2.5 to 3 hour range. 

Edited 2 hours ago by soos_mite_ah