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I'm not hating on the analog bag trend, I think it's cute, but the best way for you to begin to move away from your smartphone is to dissect it like a little bug. Your smartphone is a small computer that can do literally anything. And as long as you have it, you are resisting the urge to do literally anything - that's why tech has become to addictive. If you start to replace every app on your phone that you actually find yourself using with an analog or low-tech alternative, you take the power of your attention back from that phone with every successful transition.
Once you've transferred what those apps could do to other devices or items, you can successfully transition to a dumb phone (more on that in another post coming), but you'll have more success with taking it slow.
Start with an app on your phone and ask yourself these questions.
Is this app a website?
Was this app once a gadget?
If Yes to #1, you can probably log into it on your laptop at home, add it to your favorites bar, and delete the app. This can include anything from social media to your work schedule, depending on how offline you want to be.
If Yes to #2, you can go back to the gadget. Get a watch, a pedometer, a physical credit card, a small notebook. Get a digital or film camera. Grab your old DS for games.
By all means keep building your analog bag if you're having fun doing it, but if you really want to "go analog" you're going to have to start breaking up with your smartphone too.