# reclaim

Establish chosen roles, boundaries, and routines for the technology that remains.

Use reclaim when deciding what technology remains in your life and the terms under which it belongs.

## Practices

[Browse the complete practice index](https://live.freewith.tech/#practices)

### [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.

**Start small:** Write down the three jobs your phone genuinely needs to do.

### [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.

**Start small:** Delete one concluded chat after saving anything you still need.

### [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.

**Start small:** Move one unresolved task or date from a chat into your journal, task list, or calendar.

### [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.

**Start small:** Give one digital tool one supporting job around your paper journal, such as capture, reminder, or review.

### [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.

**Start small:** Try one short walk or errand without the phone when your watch already covers the essential communication, payment, or navigation you may need.

### [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.

**Start small:** Choose one device and write down the purpose you want it to serve.

### [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.

**Start small:** Create one separate browser profile or workspace for the context that most often leaks into another.

### [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.

**Start small:** Archive or delete ten messages that require no further action.

### [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.

**Start small:** Invite one person you keep messaging to meet in person.

### [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.

**Start small:** Choose one completed month of media and decide where its long-term copy belongs.

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