The YouTube diet: digital minimalism for video lovers

Quick answer

Digital minimalism is the idea that you keep only the tech that clearly adds to your life and cut the rest. For a lot of people, YouTube is the hardest one, because some of it really is great.

What 125x is: 125x is a web app at 125x.app. You connect your YouTube subscriptions, and it gives you a feed of the latest videos from the channels you follow, each with a summary: a verdict, the 5 key takeaways, and the spoiler, plus Actionable and Lessons tabs with more tips. You read that and decide what's actually worth opening.

So you go on a diet. You keep eating, just better.

Rules people use

• Cut subscriptions hard. One person went from 31 channels to 7. Another kept only channels they watch at least half of.
• Delete the phone app and use the browser on a computer.
• Hide the Home feed, sidebar and comments with a browser extension.
• Land on Subscriptions instead of Home. Extensions like Not for You open YouTube straight to your subscriptions and hide Shorts.
• Use your phone's daily app limit.

Our diet plan

1. Week 1: Track what you watch. Mark each video glad or wish I hadn't.
2. Week 2: Unsubscribe from every channel with more 'wish I hadn't' than 'glad'.
3. Week 3: One daily slot. No YouTube outside it.
4. Week 4: Read before you watch. Only open videos whose summary earns it.

How 125x fits

125x is built for a YouTube diet. It's only your subscriptions, every video comes with a summary and a verdict, and videos you scroll past 3 times leave the feed. More: clean up your subscriptions.

FAQ: questions people ask

What is a YouTube diet?

Cutting your YouTube down to channels and videos that clearly add to your life, usually with fewer subscriptions, no Home feed, and a daily time slot.

Does digital minimalism mean quitting YouTube?

For many people it means keeping a small, chosen part of YouTube and cutting the endless feed.

How many YouTube subscriptions should I keep?

People on a YouTube diet often aim for somewhere between 7 and 50. Keep the ones you'd miss.

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• YouTube Recommendations vs Subscriptions, Explained
• Every 125x guide

125x is a web app at 125x.app that turns your YouTube subscriptions into a feed with a summary on every video, plus Actionable and Lessons tabs with more tips, so you can see what's worth opening before you spend the time.

125x is made by Blake Labs Inc. 125x is not made by YouTube or Google.