Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/10/29/google-will-create-a-free-pape.html
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This looks absolutely insane to me.
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Paper Phone helps you have a little break away from your digital world by printing a personal booklet
I assume this app is a loss-leader to sell more “flesh tone” printer ink.
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Desert Island looks useful. I bet that could help people from being on their phones too much.
Paper phone is ridiculous. Might as well not even carry a phone around then.
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At first I was all like:
But after re-reading for about 5 times I was like:
I’ve had Unlock Clock installed for a few days now (9 unlocks for today so far). I wish it had a full black background instead of grey. Now if only it would graph past days unlocks. I think I hit over 30 on the weekend.
i dunno, the paper quality is nice, its the 3 year contract that’s the killer. 
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An app lets you choose what to include such as favourite contacts, maps and meetings and then prints them directly to a sheet of paper. Customisable “paper apps” like recipes, phrasebooks and notepads let you get things done or unwind in a more focussed way.
and I thought the goal of the technology of having a handheld-computer in your pocket which contains everything from “favourite contacts, maps and meetings” was to not need paper at all anymore.
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good point, this is also a big f’u to the plant a bajillion trees youtube movement going on right now.
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My version is better. I call it a note. It doesn’t require a smartphone app and I encrypt it by writing in cursive.
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I hesitant to waste paper like this, but I often manually write out my todos for the day + addresses of appts in a notes app, then leave the phone in airplane mode only listening to podcasts or saved music. I find it’s much more soothing than scrolling Reddit (or even BB) on the bus/running errands
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