🧘 Spend a full day with no screens
Prepare for one day without screens by arranging essential contact, offline activities and a realistic start and end time.
mindfulness
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Plan the experience
Planning estimates, not a price quote or a deadline. Your version may vary.
- Time
- One full day, plus a short preparation session.
- Cost
- Can be free at home or nearby; outings may add travel or entry costs.
- Where
- At home, outdoors or visiting people, depending on your responsibilities.
Before you start
Choose a day when essential work or care does not depend on a screen. Tell anyone who needs to reach you how to do so. Accessibility, medical and safety needs take priority; define any necessary exception before you start.
How you would actually start
Prepare the offline basics
Write down addresses, plans and important phone numbers. Downloading something still leaves you using a screen, so choose paper directions, printed tickets or an alternative where practical. Arrange meals and transport without creating extra work for someone else.
Give the day a little shape
Choose a few screen-free options: cooking, reading a paper book, a walk, making something or seeing a friend. Leave unplanned space too. Put optional devices away so you do not have to make the same decision every few minutes.
Close the day with a note
At your agreed end time, write what you did and when you most wanted to reach for a device. Note what helped and what was inconvenient. Decide whether there is one small part you want to repeat, without making a daily rule.
What counts as done
You have lived the agreed day without optional screens, keeping any necessary exceptions you defined. Record what happened honestly rather than restarting over a technicality.
A screen-free day is an experiment, not a claim about health or willpower. Choose circumstances that let you enjoy it.
When you finish, mark it fulfilled in My list. You can remember it in your weekly journal.