Wednesday, November 09, 2016
What's On Your Phone, Annika Presley?
AMT Lab @ CMU: Annika Presley is Managing Director at Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, a contemporary ballet company in San Francisco, CA. Prior to working at ASI, Annika was Education Director at AXIS Dance Company for eight years. Annika holds an MA in Sign Language Linguistics and originally hails from the Netherlands. In 2015, she was selected as a mentee by Dance/USA’s Institute for Leadership Training.
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Just downloaded Trello. I have 4 different planning list type apps on my phone currently. I have one that is just for groceries, one that is the To Do adult kind of tasks, one for keeping track of homework, and one for lists of lists. I hope Trello works for me as much as it does for Annika. This article didn't really surprise me, the normal apps are what she uses, and I use them in similar ways. I will say that I am always impressed and envy people who have the courage to turn off their notifications for emails and messages. I think it would ultimately cause me less stress in the long run, but I can't imagine the first few days of not knowing instantly when I get a new message, which is kind of sad, but so true for the world I live in. I could not image checking my email at only certain parts of my day, honestly it probably would be a good thing to do, but not knowing information right away is hard. Now that Trello has finished downloading on my phone, time to check it out and see if it is a resource that will help me.
I forgot about these articles! I spend so much time lamenting which apps should go on my home page vs. a folder vs. in the dock more so than I probably should. I’ve read numerous articles about how to lay out your phone for efficiency and one thing that I consistently read is to keep your home screen as bare as possible. You want it to be the apps that you use every day, which it seems like Annika Presley has tried to do. In the article, Annika mentions that she keeps her personal and work email in separate applications. She talks about how she has to log-in actively to check her work inbox. I’m not sure how I feel about that in our industry. I constantly here about that we are not responsible for constantly checking email every hour, but however there are those times when you get an email that helps you make a decision, but you weren’t planning on checking your inbox. I think it is a fairly loaded question that deserves some serious thinking.
I have a very strong love hate relationship with my cell phone. The great things about it is that I can do so many things with it. I can communicate with people, play games, tweet, and so many other random things. That is all on top of the basic primary function of being able to call other people. However, my cell phone is by far the biggest distraction out there. I find myself interacting with it rather than humans that I am less than two feet away from. I truly think that we need to get our faces out of our phones because we spend so much time on them. That is why I am have made it a point to only have necessary apps on my cellular device. These are applications that I will use at least three times a day to be productive. This helps me limit distractions and still remain human.
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