Offline Humans: How to Stop Scrolling and Reconnect with the Real World

by Natalie Alzate

Genres: Nonfiction

240 pages, Hardcover

Published October 7, 2025

Reviews

[Stephanie Dargusch Borders · Rating 4 out of 5]

There is a lot to love about this book. First off, it’s beautifully crafted. The graphics, colors, and craftsmanship are fantastic. It’s also very helpful as far as ideas and inspiration on how to spend your time creatively as opposed to doom scrolling. It’s a fantastic book to read as we head into the new year and there are a lot of journaling prompts to create a guideline for how you want your life to look. It’s broken up into segments of time: hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly. There’s a lot of discussion about the accompanying journal that the author has put out but it’s not necessarily something you have to buy to get the full experience—the author includes many of the journal features in the book.

That said I’ve now convinced myself that I need to buy both the book and the journal (I read the latter via the library) so I definitely recommend. I have a bad track record with planners so we’ll see if it works out for me. 😅

[Jyra · Rating 3 out of 5]

while this book does have some helpful suggestions and information, it definitely feels less practical for someone who has children and their schedules/activities etc.
It does feel a little bit like it is pushing the reader to buy the journal the author also has.

[Candy · Rating 4 out of 5]

This slim book is packed with strategies for cutting back on digital time.