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tl;dr; Just do it, it's an amazing hack for increased focus, productivity and peace of mind. I recommend

Personal phone -> A feature phone Business phone -> Smartphone if you're in primarily customer-facing role(e.g. sales, customer support)

My Story:

3 years back, I gave away my smartphone and switched to a simple feature phone. I had to get a smartphone for a duration of 6 months in between this period(when a lot of my day job couldn't be finished without accessing whatsapp groups/messages and travelling)

For my job as a programmer/founder, I prefer no smartphone at all and use following formula

1. For Personal Use: phone on feature phone 2. For Business Use: iPad with only business whatsapp, toto app, book reading app(and that too only when I am not able to lure any other team member to handle it for me)

Location services, cabs, all these things can be handled without smartphone. Although, it takes little longer and inconvenience but also gives an opportunity to live in the moment, ask people for help.

"Take 1 month break"

I had the similar situation, I was so immersed on one of the side project that I couldn't sleep at nights thinking about the future prospects for this project. I could no longer focus on my employer's work. At the same time, I did not have enough conviction to pursue the side project full time without salary.

I told my boss everything honestly. We discussed that it would be better for the company and myself that I take 1 month break from job and work on the side project; then decide whether to pursue the side project or the job with full focus.

I got the momentum in the project, so I chose to pursue this project full time and left the company. Couldn't have been possible without an understanding boss and an honest conversation.

Is there any javascript library to do the same? It would be useful to have a library as a dependency and just initialize it in the code and then you have screenshot in meta of each page

Unpopular opinion: I have seen this happening frequently for all the "freelancers" I know. They deal with multiple clients, multiple projects, multiple categories of work.

Have you thought of organizing the way you're doing business? Probably focus on more niche field. Cut down your clients, cut down your projects and focus on fewer.

Remember 80/20 principle? Ask yourself what gives you the most output and then remove everything else from your life?