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The launcher that counts how often you pick up your phone
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The launcher that counts how often you pick up your phone
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An Android launcher built around pickups, not screen time. A quiet home screen shows today's task, how many times you've looked at your phone (and how many for nothing) and the six tools you actually use. Time sinks get a pause. No server, no account, no ads.
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@alisrc looking at number of time I have picked my phone will definitely help avoiding as much as possible. What I would also like to measure is how many Kilo meters/miles I have scrolled, and equivalent path on map, like "you have scrolled past Paris" xD. Btw Congrats for the launch!
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@aryan_thakore Haha, "you've scrolled past Paris" would hit hard! 🗺️
Loved the idea, but as a rule, Fewer avoids background accessibility services to keep battery usage low and privacy at 100%. Measuring pixels/distance requires those invasive permissions.
My goal is to catch you at the gate (the pickup) before you start the marathon! Let me know how the pickup counter feels after your first full day!
Counting pickups instead of minutes is a sharp reframe. Minutes hide the ten-second unlock, look, lock loops, and those are the ones that break focus. How does Fewer decide a pickup was for nothing? Is it no app opened within a few seconds, or something smarter?
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@whateverneveranywhere Glad the reframe resonated! That micro-loop is exactly what was killing my own focus.
The logic is intentionally simple and immediate: a pickup counts as "for nothing" if the phone is locked back within a few seconds without opening any app, or if you just look at the launcher and lock it again.
No complex AI or heavy background processing, just a straightforward timeout check on screen-on vs. screen-off events to keep battery usage near zero and code clean.
If you unlock, glance, and lock right back: that's a phantom pickup.
@alisrc ha, so a few-second timeout on screen-off. simple is right for that. does it count a notification glance the same way, or only pickups you started yourself?
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@whateverneveranywhere Good question! It only counts actual user unlocks, not passive notification glances.
If a notification lights up your screen but you don't unlock the device, it doesn't count as a pickup.
It triggers when you actively unlock the phone:
Unlock > Open notification app: Standard pickup.
Unlock > Read notification on lockscreen/home > Lock back: Counted as "for nothing" (since no app was launched).
Keeping it strictly tied to the unlock action prevents false positives from passive ambient screen wakeups!