????并非所有人都精通技術，這意味著移動應用永遠和“直觀”扯不上邊。奧唐奈爾表示：“我的妻子還是依賴紙質清單。”我問他“紙質清單”是個什么應用，他回答道：“不是什么應用，就是把事情記錄在一張紙上。”人們買了智能手機后，往往會覺得：“既然用了智能手機，我就得下載應用，就得把它用在任何事情上。”其實并非如此。大概有22%的人下載了某一款應用后，就永遠不會再打開它。只有大約一半的人會使用一款應用4次以上。

????最后，使用旨在節省時間的應用還有個最大的問題：我們很容易分心。戴維斯表示：“這并不全是應用本身的問題，而是它觸發的行為所導致的。”你下載一款任務管理應用，本來是想把上面的項目一項項勾掉。但是一旦手里拿著手機，你就開始查看電子郵件，上Pinterest看照片，或是花45分鐘看萬圣節服裝。不管節省了多少時間，都彌補不了這樣的損失。

????戴維斯向她的客戶推薦了兩個策略。首先，“記錄你的時間都去哪兒了”。你可能會發現，你在健身應用上比較你和你朋友的成績花掉的那20分鐘，還不如花在真正鍛煉上。

????其次，你可以試著刪除一些不重要的東西，然后看看你最需要把什么添加回來。戴維斯幾乎刪掉了所有應用，只重新添加了一款地圖應用。有些客戶也做了同樣的選擇，他們表示“獲得了相當多的空間時間”。當你的手機變得不那么有意思了，你花在手機上的時間也就少了。如此一來，你就會覺得，你可以把所有時間花在這個真實的世界上。（財富中文網）

????譯者：樸成奎

????Some people’s styles aren’t technical, which means an app will never be intuitive. “My wife swears by her paper list,” O’Donnell says. I asked which app this “PaperList” was, and he said, “No, I mean putting things on a piece of paper.” People get a smartphone and think “therefore I must have apps, therefore I must use them for everything,” but that’s not true. About 22% of people who download and use any given app once never use it again. Only about half of downloaders will use an app more than four times.

????Finally here’s the biggest issue with using apps to save time: we are easily distracted. “It’s not always the app itself,” Davies says. “It’s the behavior it triggers.” You go into your to-do list app with the best intentions of crossing something off. But with device in hand, you check email and get sucked into a crisis that doesn’t concern you. Or you pop over to Pinterest and spend the next 45 minutes looking at Halloween costumes. Whatever time saved is dwarfed by that loss.

????Davies recommends two strategies to her clients. First, “just log where all your time is going.” You might discover that the 20 minutes you spend comparing your stats to a friend’s on a fitness app could have been used to actually exercise.

????Second, you might try deleting everything that’s not essential. Then see what you choose to add back. Davies did this with everything but a map app. Clients who’ve made a similar choice “have reported the significant amounts of free time they have,” she says. When your phone is less interesting, you look at it less. And, overall, that can make you feel like you have all the time in the world.