Ancient wisdom · Modern screens
Your digital life
is exhausting you.
Digital Feng Shui is the practice of redesigning your digital environment — your phone, your desktop, your habits — so that technology serves you instead of consuming you.
What brings you here?
Find the guide that fits your situation.
Brain Rot & Attention
Can't focus for more than 10 minutes? Short-form video shrinking your attention span?
Get the diagnosis →📱Phone Addiction
Thinking about a dumb phone? Try restructuring your current one first.
See the alternative →🏠Home Office Chaos
Working from home but drifting, unfocused, always half-present?
Fix your workspace →🔔Notification Overload
80–100 interruptions a day. Your phone is a slot machine in your pocket.
Reclaim your focus →🩶Screen Addiction
Can't stop picking up your phone? One free trick cuts screen time by 37%.
Try the grayscale hack →🧘Dopamine Burnout
Nothing feels interesting anymore. Here's what actually happens week by week when you detox.
See the real timeline →Latest Guides
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AppBlock vs BlockSite: Which Blocker Fits Your Phone and Browser? (2026)
AppBlock is built around phone schedules and Strict Mode. BlockSite is built around website blocking across devices. Here's how features, free limits, pricing, and real user complaints compare.
How to Block Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts but Keep Your Messages (iPhone & Android, 2026)
Screen Time blocks all of Instagram or none of it. Here's what actually works for hiding Reels and Shorts while keeping DMs: YouTube's zero-minute limit, browser setups, filter apps, and Android's in-app blocking.
Free Brick Alternative: How to Make a DIY Brick With Foqos and a $1 NFC Tag (2026 Setup Guide)
You can 'brick' your phone without buying a Brick. Step-by-step setup for Foqos, the free open-source iPhone app, with a cheap NFC sticker: which tags work, which of its 12 modes to pick, where to put the tag, the strict settings that stop you cheating, and the Android equivalents.
Feng Shui Study Desk for Kids and Students: Window or Wall, Desk Direction, and the Wenchang (Study) Corner
Should a kid's study desk face the window or the wall? What parents report after months of homework, the three rules almost everyone agrees on, why the four 'Wenchang' study-corner methods contradict each other, and the lighting and chair details that matter more than compass direction.
How Kids Bypass Screen Time on iPhone and iPad (and the Setting That Stops Each Trick, iOS 26 & iOS 27)
Changing the clock, 'One More Minute,' deleting and reinstalling games, watching YouTube through links, filming you type the passcode: the Screen Time bypasses parents actually catch, and the exact setting that closes each one under both the old iOS 26 controls and iOS 27's redesigned parental controls.
iPhone Alarm Didn't Go Off? Sleep Focus, Attention Aware, and the Other Real Causes (iOS 26 & iOS 27 Checklist)
Does Sleep Focus turn off your alarm? No, but plenty of other things quietly do: the shared ringer volume, Attention Aware Features, a sleep alarm that only plays on your Apple Watch, a notification arriving mid-ring, StandBy, and a sound set to None. A cause-by-cause checklist with the exact settings, plus why your Apple Watch buzzes during Sleep Focus.
What is Digital Feng Shui?
Classical Feng Shui holds that your physical environment continuously shapes your mental state. Digital Feng Shui applies this same insight to your screens — the notification badges, the app layouts, the browser tabs, the desk setup.
It's not about rejecting technology. It's about deliberately designing the digital spaces you inhabit so they support focus, calm, and the work that actually matters to you.
Learn the core principles →