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Past talk — 6 Oct 2026

Neurospicy

Nine ways to live with your phone is a printable brochure by Dr Alex Beattie for Saving Screen Time, a research project at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington exploring how people with ADHD live with digital technology.

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Alex Beattie

Nine ways to live with your phone is a printable brochure by Dr Alex Beattie for Saving Screen Time, a research project at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington exploring how people with ADHD live with digital technology.

The brochure speaks in two contrasting voices. Everyday tweaks (01 to 05) covers widely accepted advice: phone-free pockets, a tidier home screen, built-in limits, switching off autoplay and questioning the numbers. Getting neurospicy (06 to 09) offers newer ideas for brains that work differently: body doubling, background stimulation, a simpler device and a bedtime ritual for the phone. No diagnosis is needed to experiment.

Print double-sided on A3, fold in half, then in half again.

How to print and fold

Brochure

Double parallel fold (quad fold) · closes to 105 × 297 mm

Print settings

  • A3 paper (420 × 297 mm), landscape
  • Double-sided, flip on short edge
  • Actual size (100%), not fit to page

Creases

Inside · lay this face up to start
S1Single spread, white half and acid half

105 mm mountain (fold 2) · 210 mm valley (fold 1) · 315 mm valley (fold 2)

Outside
P1Front cover (black)P2Back / Start hereP3Half spread, leftP4Half spread, right

105 mm mountain (fold 2) · 210 mm mountain (fold 1) · 315 mm valley (fold 2)

  • Valley: fold towards you
  • Mountain: fold away from you
  • Fold order

Fold it

  1. Lay the sheet inside face up. Fold it in half along the middle (210 mm) so the outside finishes on the outside. It's now 210 × 297 mm, with P1 and P2 on one face and P3 and P4 on the other.
  2. Fold it in half again, tucking the half carrying P1 behind the half carrying P2. This one fold makes the creases at 105 and 315 mm together, which is why they run in opposite directions on the flat sheet.
  3. Closed, P1 is the front and P2 is the back. P3 and P4 are inside.

Check it opens in this order

  1. Closed The black cover.

  2. One fold open The cover beside “Start here”.

  3. Turned over The two-voices statement running across the fold.

  4. Fully open The inside as one spread: everyday tips on the white half, neurospicy tips on the acid half.