What if you had to earn your screen time?
So, I have struggled with excessive screen usage for probably 20 years. I have tried more or less every trick out there, from blocker apps to physical lock boxes to selling my devices. All of these attempts have failed, even when used in combination. I will always find a way around it.
I find most blocker apps too restrictive. Trying to find the right balance of when things should be blocked on schedules, etc. just does not work for me. Even standard allowance based apps did not work for me.
Recently I've been thinking on why these haven't worked for me, when I came to the realisation that these do not work for me as they don't actually enforce me to do real work. OK, I've got things like YouTube, X, games blocked, etc. Now what? I just feel like I've done a disservice to myself.
So an idea I've had is to create an app that actually rewards you with screen time for doing tasks such as chores, exercising, studying, etc.
There would potentially be multiple ways to 'verify' you've done a task, such as having a partner/friend/family verify it, or AI, etc. and this would grant you 'free time' for those dopamine seeking activities. When you use the app/website then your time would drain, and if you hit 0 then it would close/block you from using the app until you do more tasks.
Obviously this would need to be well thought out, but just curious what peoples thoughts are on this. Would you find this useful? Would you want it on your phone, PC or both? What features would make this worthwhile?