The "Disconnection" Of Post Connectionism:Time Management And Monitoring Of Efficiency Apps

When connection becomes a habit,disconnection becomes rare.People exist in a society where everything is connected,and their lives become convenient due to connection.While enjoying this convenience,people are also struggling with connection overload.In daily life,they need to scan codes everywhere,and work requires their phones to stay on for 24 hours.Therefore,people are beginning to reflect on this kind of connection and pay attention to disconnection.When modern people realize the importance of disconnection,they find that it is impossible to disconnect in this connected society.Being offline has become a luxury,and disconnection seems to mean disconnection from society,meaning it will be eliminated by society.Therefore,this relationship between disconnection and connection has become difficult for modern people to grasp,and due to the impact of the epidemic,"cloud office" and "online classroom" have become mainstream,further enhancing people’s connectivity,The mastery of this degree is more valued.In this contradiction of disconnection and connection,people begin to regulate this relationship through different ways,and the youth group,with their strong internet skills and abilities,has become the vanguard of exploring this approach.In the context of the Internet,an efficiency app was born,which focuses on the issue of disconnection and connection,and Tomato ToDo is one of them,which quickly sparked a trend.In fact,disconnection is not an emerging thing in the digital age,it has always been seen as a resistance to technology.However,today’s disconnection has changed,targeting the specific context of today’s era,which is known as the "post connectionism" environment.In the context of post connectionism,people are no longer limited to the implementation of disconnection behavior through simple physical isolation.This implementation logic has a bipolar mindset.In the era of the Internet,people began to pay more attention to the reconciliation of the two relationships,and Tomato ToDo exists in this way.Tomato ToDo is an application on mobile phones that users do not completely disconnect from or even use their phones.However,Tomato ToDo achieves this "post connectionist disconnection" by isolating external software,which is a software driven operating mechanism.Therefore,we need to explore the software.Through roaming and deep interview methods,it was found that the company implemented more efficient disconnection internally through special time management mechanisms and monitoring systems.This reshaping of the "time system" exists in various functions of the software,resulting in a monitoring mechanism.It is not only the "super panoramic monitoring" formed by the system,which changes people’s monitoring passivity,but also forms a quantitative self-management for users,and also forms a monitoring mechanism in their external sharing.Starting from this,I began to reflect on the contradiction that exists in Tomato ToDo.Users are not only simply seeking disconnection,but also creating meaning,pursuing autonomy and "finiteness".However,software is shaping a simple disconnection,a behavior that tends to be completely disconnected.