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Shepherd — Opens quality content you choose instead of Facebook/Twitter
Shepherd puts an app icon on your home screen that redirects to another, productive app
Your sheep mind opens Facebook, you end up in kindle. Get some quality content.
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Love it! Using it with Twitter, the only thing that really bothers me is that it’s not the actual Twitter icon but a weird skeuomorphic-looking one. Any chance of fixing this?
Howdy 👋!
My name is Artur and I am an addict.
I became worried about mindlessly opening Facebook app and scrolling with no purpose.
I didn't feel ready to delete the app yet, so I made this "decoy" that pretends to be Facebook, but opens Pocket or Kindle.
After 1 month of that I was ready to ditch the Facebook app.
I am not commenting on recent Cambridge Analytica revelations, but what bothered me the most was how addicted I became to just opening the app. Waiting for the build to finish, waiting in a queue - I had a quick fix that wasted my time.
Breaking habit loop requires replacing one habit with the other, so I substituted fb with @pocket articles and it worked.
It is also entirely Open Source, so you can add your own apps to replace or open instead.
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