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160: State of the Apps 2025

Cortex

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Mastering Focus Modes on Smartphones

This chapter explores the intricacies of focus modes on smartphones, highlighting the speaker's frustrations and personal strategies for enhancing productivity. It introduces a method to create up to 12 unique focus modes on Apple devices, each tailored to different activities and accompanied by specific visual cues. The discussion also emphasizes the importance of organizing apps and settings based on various tasks and times of day to maintain focus and minimize distractions.

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