Worse yet is the people who take that distraction and put it in a place that can harm others. If you've ridden on a bus recently, and you look down at the passing cars, you'll see just how many people are on their phones while driving.

I reckon that for a distraction free world, we should put mobile phone detection cameras on the sides of every bus in service :)

I tend to find, even that just simply closing the door to my office (in addition to my phone face down, on pure silence (no vibration at all) - is a small act that isolates me further from the world to help me be more productive.

eg: when I am on hive - I find all the posts that I want to read / comment on since the last time I checked (roughly x hours ago) - open all the tabs, read the articles, then make my comments. I have two more to do after this one. :)

Then, I will go grab some hydration (sorry, not coffee) - and then open up my text editor and continue working on whatever writing I have to do.

There used to be lavish lists hand written all over on various bits of paper on my desk, there's a wallplanner magnetically stuck to the server rack in my office that holds the home server, security system, and other various IT gear, but no dry-erase marker has stained it - yet. My to do list exists somewhere in my head, (and sometimes, still on paper) - but I still get more done these days, because I just elect to ignore the phone, and refuse (as much as I can) to give in to the doom scroll.