Step 3: Take control of the home screen

Your phone's home screen is more important than you think, it is a piece of screen real estate that you see numerous times a day. And every app in that home screen is a source of temptation. According to Tristan Harris, you should only have " apps that you drive, but they don't drive you" on your home screen.

The three simple rules for organizing your home screen are:
1. Keep tools: Apps that help you with specific end-to-end tasks. These includes productivity apps and other tools. Examples include calendar app, to-do apps, Uber, Google Maps, and note-taking app. These are apps that will help you get things done.

2. Keep aspirational apps: These are apps that will represent the things you want to accomplish. If your goal is to learn a new language have Duolingo on the home screen if it is to stay fit by running go for Runkeeper, Runstatic or Strava. Similarly, add Calm or Aura if meditating more is your resolution.

3. Move everything else: Our phones have more than one home screen, so move all the apps left to an another screen. These apps must include Facebook, email, browser, etc. The fewer the number of icons our eyes have to scan when we unlock our phone, the less work our mind has to do. And use the search feature to open any of these moved apps, thus the making the process of opening them more conscious.

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