# live #freewithtech > A practice database for digital freedom. I am Samuel Pitonak . I created #freewithtech because I wanted more people around me to experience what digital freedom feels like. This is the Markdown representation of the practice database homepage. Individual records live at `/practices/.md`. The agent index is `/llms.txt`. The public MCP server is `/mcp`. ## Practices - [Notifications off by default](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/notifications-off-by-default.md): Every alert competes for attention, so interruption should be reserved for communication and events that genuinely require a timely response. - [Keep phones away during social interactions](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/keep-phones-away-during-social-interactions.md): A person sharing the moment should not have to compete with an unneeded phone. - [Give infinite feeds an ending](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/give-infinite-feeds-an-ending.md): An infinite feed becomes more deliberate when browsing and consuming are separated by a finite queue with an empty state. - [Put paper first for reflection](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/put-paper-first-for-reflection.md): Thinking, reflection, and meaning-making can begin away from networked systems designed to pull attention elsewhere. - [Give your phone a narrow role](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/give-your-phone-a-narrow-role.md): A phone becomes less controlling when it is no longer expected to do everything. - [Block trackers and ads](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/block-trackers-and-ads.md): Attention and behavior should not automatically feed advertising and tracking systems across browsers, apps, and accounts. - [Own favorite media](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/own-favorite-media.md): Media that matters repeatedly should not remain available only at the discretion of a subscription catalog. - [Map your digital toolkit](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/map-your-digital-toolkit.md): A digital footprint is easier to control when its accounts, services, and dependencies are visible. - [Use private AI for sensitive topics](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-private-ai-for-sensitive-topics.md): Sensitive context belongs only in AI systems with privacy boundaries that match the risk. - [Delete unused online accounts](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/delete-unused-online-accounts.md): An account that no longer serves a purpose remains an unnecessary dependency and exposure. - [Badges signal only priority](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/badges-signal-only-priority.md): Notifications decide when an app may interrupt. Badges should show only the items that still require a deliberate response. - [Protect personal communication with E2EE](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/protect-personal-communication-with-e2ee.md): Private human communication should be readable only by the people taking part in it. - [Encrypt sensitive cloud storage](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/encrypt-sensitive-cloud-storage.md): Sensitive files need storage where the provider cannot read their contents. - [Own your photo library](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/own-your-photo-library.md): Memories containing intimate places and faces deserve an owned copy outside a platform's control. - [Prefer software you can keep](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/prefer-software-you-can-keep.md): A long-term tool is more dependable when continued access does not depend on recurring permission to rent it. - [Use personal social media only with a clear purpose](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-personal-social-media-only-with-purpose.md): Personal social media needs a named purpose and a boundary that keeps it from becoming an automatic part of daily life. - [Let resolved conversations expire](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/let-resolved-conversations-expire.md): A concluded conversation can expire once its lasting information has moved to the right place. - [Extract durable information from chat](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/extract-durable-information-from-chat.md): Tasks, events, decisions, and memories become easier to find when they leave the chat stream and enter the system that owns them. - [Choose tools with open exports](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/choose-tools-with-open-exports.md): The freedom to leave depends on exports that preserve useful data in standard, interoperable formats. - [Give digital tools a supporting role](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/give-digital-tools-a-supporting-role.md): A digital tool can support reflection while paper remains the source of truth. - [Use email aliases for online accounts](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-email-aliases-for-online-accounts.md): Using one primary email address across online accounts makes it easier to connect activity and harder to control unwanted contact. - [Use low data as a boundary](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-low-data-as-a-boundary.md): A deliberately limited mobile-data allowance turns constant connectivity into a conscious choice. - [Diversify service providers](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/diversify-service-providers.md): One provider should not control every important layer of a person's digital footprint. - [Prefer repairable hardware](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/prefer-repairable-hardware.md): Hardware is more ownable when it can be repaired, supported, and kept useful without complete vendor dependence. - [Reject optional cookies](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/reject-optional-cookies.md): Accessing a requested function should not imply consent to unrelated tracking. - [Reduce visual app pull](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/reduce-visual-app-pull.md): Interfaces deserve less power to attract attention before a person has chosen what to do. - [Add friction to addictive apps](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/add-friction-to-addictive-apps.md): A small delay can create enough space to notice and reconsider a reflexive app opening. - [Let a watch cover essential access](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/let-a-watch-cover-essential-access.md): A constrained wearable can cover essential access without bringing a general-purpose phone into every moment. - [Dedicate devices by purpose](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/dedicate-devices-by-purpose.md): A device with a clear role carries fewer unrelated temptations and makes its context easier to understand. - [Separate software contexts](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/separate-software-contexts.md): Work, personal life, reading, and other contexts are easier to enter deliberately when software makes their boundaries visible. - [Keep email inbox at zero](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/keep-email-inbox-at-zero.md): An inbox can represent communication that still requires attention. Processed messages can move into the archive. - [Keep only current-context tabs open](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/keep-only-current-context-tabs-open.md): Open tabs should represent the current browsing context. Future material belongs in a separate read-later system. - [Prefer in-person over chat](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/prefer-in-person-over-chat.md): Meaningful relationships often deserve richer shared presence than an extended stream of messages can provide. - [Prefer cross-platform tools](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/prefer-cross-platform-tools.md): A workflow is easier to keep when it does not depend on one operating system remaining available. - [Keep sensitive data local-first](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/keep-sensitive-data-local-first.md): Sensitive data should begin under personal control before remote convenience is added. - [Use the phone as temporary storage](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-the-phone-as-temporary-storage.md): A phone can capture new media temporarily while the long-term library lives in owned, recoverable storage. - [Keep AI memory in portable Markdown](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/keep-ai-memory-in-portable-markdown.md): Durable context for AI should remain readable, editable, and owned outside any one model provider. - [Isolate agentic AI from personal data](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/isolate-agentic-ai-from-personal-data.md): An agent able to use tools or act on a system should not share an environment with sensitive personal applications and data by default. - [Reassess your digital toolkit regularly](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/reassess-your-digital-toolkit-regularly.md): A tool should keep earning its place as needs, products, policies, and personal boundaries change. - [Review privacy settings regularly](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/review-privacy-settings-regularly.md): Privacy choices drift as products add features, change policies, and introduce new defaults. - [Maintain recoverable backups](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/maintain-recoverable-backups.md): Important data is not protected until an independent copy can actually be restored. - [Review connected apps and permissions](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/review-connected-apps-and-permissions.md): Connected apps can retain access to sensitive accounts and data after their original purpose has ended. - [Use social media on open protocols](https://live.freewith.tech/practices/use-social-media-on-open-protocols.md): A social presence is easier to keep or leave when identity and connections live on an open protocol that more than one app or host can use. ## Continue - [Concepts](https://live.freewith.tech/concepts.md) - [Journey](https://live.freewith.tech/journey.md) - [Positions](https://live.freewith.tech/by.md) - [About](https://live.freewith.tech/about.md) - [freewith.tech docs](https://live.freewith.tech/docs.md) - [Contact](https://live.freewith.tech/contact.md) - [Complete agent index](https://live.freewith.tech/llms.txt)