How to avoid doom scrolling? - Productivity tip💡

This is a great tip! Using Sprout to respond to messages and publish posts really helps avoid doomscrolling for hours on your phone. Even if it’s “for research” 😉

This is a great tip! I also end up doom scrolling quite a bit as a social media manager. 

As a fellow social media manager, I love this tip! It’s inevitable that you’ll have to be on your phone for work… this is a smart way to keep yourself from being distracted! 

Such a good tip! I’d also recommend the in-app time limits. At first it seemed elementary, but then after getting the reminders from Instagram saying I’ve been on the app for 30 minutes or only have 5 minutes left of my daily time limit, I realized how necessary it was to have those restrictions in place. 

​@madison.skipper I literally wrote a book on this! Digital time-sucks are no joke in our field. Sprout made a huge difference for me, and I do work-related tasks only through the Sprout app if it needs to be done on my phone.

I know this isn’t feasible for everyone, but if I need to do something on social I can’t do through Sprout I try to use my work iPad or my team’s shared phone, then I can’t mindlessly switch into my personal account. 

Not for everyone, but I find that because my desk is in a high-traffic area of my office, it’s easier for me to stay off my because I don’t want every person walking by to be like, Ugh. On her phone again. I refuse to be the stereotype of the marketing/comms team person who is always on their phone.

It’s actually harder when I work from home because my personal device is also where I receive work calls, as opposed to my desk phone for Official Business™. 

Ooh I so agree with this! When I WFH, I get a lot of deep work done. But heaven help anyone who gives me a bunch of one-off tasks, because I get so distracted by the doom scroll. Five minutes turns into an hour and then… Oof.

This is a great example of positive social pressure. Unfortunately, it can also make me anxious when my coworkers see me on the phone while I’m legitimately working. Although an iPhone is one of my work devices, people aren’t typically trained to see it that way. 

I had a similar topic in the tip I posted - I mentioned using the smart inbox and making sure my phone is out of sight - but I love that your tip goes a step further with batching phone tasks. Definitely planning on trying to batch time for social media tasks that still require my phone, like creating reels and other video posts on our channels.