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Daily writing prompt

What are your favorite 5 apps on your phone?

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If anybody in the crowd knows some Freud, they’ll know that this is a pretty cool opportunity to practice some psychoanalysis. So here you go; read me. For context, I clock about 3 hours of screen time/day. I think that’s probably as relevant, for all of us, as the app list itself.

[Super Ego] There are only five apps I keep on my home screen, for easy access:

1. Blue Letter Bible
2. Merriam Webster Dictionary
3. Clock
4. Notepad
5. Text Messaging

[Ego] Then, there are the five apps that my digital stewardship app clocks me on most often:

1. Samsung Browser (Doomscrolling, mostly.)
2. Gmail (I don’t care that they’re spying and selling my data. I’m a man in Christ; I’m accustomed to being targeted.)
3. Blue Letter Bible (The Word of Life, folks.)
4. Notepad (Ideas, Thoughts, Prayers and Plans)
5. Spotify (White Noise and Worship)

[Id] Then, there are the five apps I’m ashamed to admit I spend so much time on:

1. Samsung Browser (Doomscrolling, mostly)
2. Amazon (Just cancelled Prime. HalleluYah!)
3. Phone (If we’re gonna talk, let’s cover all the bases.)
4. Google Health (Gotta clock the sleep score and energy burned.)
5. My Ride K-12 (To track the kids’ school bus.)

Thassit.