What people mean by it
Not a medical treatment. It means a break from instant rewards: short videos, endless feeds, constant notifications. After a few days, normal things like reading or training stop feeling boring.
What to cut
- Short videos: Shorts, Reels, TikTok.
- Notifications from everything except people.
- Phone in bed.
What to keep
Messages, music, work, normal YouTube videos you chose on purpose. A detox you cannot keep for a week does nothing.
7-day plan
- Day 1: block short-video feeds, turn off notifications.
- Day 2: phone charges outside the bedroom.
- Day 3: 30 minutes outside, no headphones.
- Day 4: one hour of focused work, phone silent.
- Day 5: read 20 pages.
- Day 6: train.
- Day 7: write down what felt different.
The hard part is week 2
The feed comes back the moment the blocker goes off. Keep the block on and replace the time with tasks you can tick and a streak you do not want to break.
Where Make Yourself fits
Feed blocking (Pro), focus timers, habits and a daily score in one app for Android and Windows. Pro is $1.99 for the first month.
From the founder
I'm Danylo, 17. I used to lose 5-6 hours a day to Shorts, Reels and TikTok. Deleting apps and screen time limits did not work for me; a written plan did. Then I built Make Yourself. Read my story →