You're more than welcome. I'm real glad to hear you got yourself a pile of books. That's great, hope you will enjoy them :)

The permanent checking and scrolling does me in, and I want my analog life back.

Getting back to analog can help fight that. Like stepping out of a roller-coaster can help realize the world around us may not be that stupid crazily spinning place it was the instant before.

now I just have to remember to take one of them out and dare to make notes or draw in public.

Just start doing it and be ok with the fact that you will probably feel silly for a while doing it in public. That feeling will go away if you keep on doing it and it will just become another habit of yours.

For me, that odd feeling lasted the longer with sketching. I have no artistic talent at all, I just enjoy sketching so doing it in public felt real awkward. I just kept at it and today I can stop right in my tracks in the middle of a busy sidewalk to sketch whatever I noticed, or to take some notes. I just don't care.

I am seriously considering changing back to a dumbphone.

If it helps: don't forget you don't need to spend any money on a new phone. You can easily 'dumb down' your smartphone. That's what I did with mine: it's a smartphone with no app installed on it beside the very few apps I really need (things like banking, security and 2FA). I even removed the email. I don't browse the Web with it. There is nothing that urgent that I need to be able to answer immediately or that I need to check it online when I'm out, it can wait for to be back home (and I fear I might forget I can always write a short not in my notebook).

That phone is really nothing but an expensive dumbphone, but it works great for me since it doesn't force to live like the Luddite I'm not ;)