Digital Wellness Resources
Tools, voices, and research for a healthier relationship with technology.
Not ready to start a program? That's fine. Here are the apps, books, podcasts, and thought leaders we trust — plus our own published work — to help you think more clearly about your digital habits.
By Scroll By Choice
Our published work
Curated resources
What we recommend
These are the tools, people, and organizations we find ourselves returning to and recommending to clients.
Apps & Tools
Plant a virtual tree while you focus — if you leave the app, it dies. Simple, effective, slightly guilt-inducing in the best way.
Automatic time tracking with detailed reports on your digital habits. Hard to argue with the data when you see it.
App blocker that actually holds firm. Good for those who need an external commitment device while building internal skills.
Research & Think Tanks
One of the world's leading research centers on digital media and young people. Where the evidence actually comes from.
Nonprofit dedicated to ensuring technology actually serves humanity. Founded by former tech insiders who saw how the sausage was made.
Global nonprofit working to make the online world safer for kids and families. Publisher of Scroll By Choice's Digital Wellness Trampoline framework.
Thought Leaders
Author of Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. Writes about focus, attention, and the case for a slower, more intentional digital life.
Author of Indistractable. Studies how digital products are designed to capture attention — and how to build systems that fight back.
Social psychologist and author of The Anxious Generation. His research on smartphones and adolescent mental health is essential reading.
UC Irvine researcher on attention, multitasking, and interruptions. Her work on the cost of task-switching will change how you think about notifications.
MIT researcher on human-technology relationships. Her book Alone Together was ahead of its time by about a decade.
Author of How to Do Nothing. Explores attention, resistance, and what we lose when we surrender every idle moment to a screen.
Books
Cal Newport — the case for intentionally choosing a small number of digital tools that support what matters most, then happily missing out on everything else.
Nir Eyal — practical, evidence-based strategies for controlling your attention and choosing your life. Less guilt, more structure.
Jenny Odell — a meditation on attention, place, and what it means to resist the attention economy without retreating from the world entirely.
Jonathan Haidt — how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. Essential reading for any parent or school leader.
Podcasts & Media
Conversations about balancing technology and life. Good entry point if you're new to the topic and want something listenable.
Thoughtful, reported episodes on human-tech interaction. Covers everything from doomscrolling to how smartphones are reshaping the body.
We handed kids the most powerful technology in history. Then we walked away. This is what happened next. Essential listening for parents.
For Organizations
The Society for Human Resource Management's resources on employee wellbeing — including digital wellness and burnout prevention.
The data on employee disengagement that underpins the business case for digital wellness programs. The numbers are sobering.
Boston Children's Hospital initiative bringing together organizations committed to building a healthier internet. Scroll By Choice is a proud pledge advisor.
Have a resource we should add? We're always looking for credible tools, research, and voices in the digital wellness space.
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