How to boost productivity with your Smartphone

Although technology made our lives easier it kept us lazy and less productive. Do you know how a lot of time we have wasted only because of our Smartphone? On average people use more than 3 hours per day on their mobile phones. But if you are addicted to your mobile phone, you are in a critical situation. You might not believe it, but extreme users spend more than 12 hours on their mobile phones. According to researches, on average people check their mobile phones 58 times per day. Can you imagine where have we lost? These bad practices kill our time, productivity, and cause mental illnesses. Though that is true we can not escape from our Smartphones. But if we can use the same Smartphone for boosting our productivity? So here I tell you few mobile apps that you can use to be productive.

Alarmy

Do you know your entire day depends on your morning routine? If you spend a lazy and less productive morning, your entire day becomes lazy. Normally most of us use the mobile alarm to wake up. But we can simply turn it off or snooze by a simple touch. As we have no hurry in this quarantine period, we especially tempt to do so rather than before. But you can not easily turn off this alarm. There are 4 missions as Take a picture, Shake phone, Solve math problems, and Barcode/QR code. You can select a mission as you want. To turn off your alarm you have to pass the mission you selected. I suggest you try out “solve maths” mission which I found difficult to escape from. This app is something worthy to try out.

Visit the official website:- https://alar.my/

Forest

Smartphone addiction is not as simple as we think. It might ruin our entire life. We are lost in a fantasy world which makes us forget our dreams and targets. In this smart world, we should be smart not to become victims of machines and devices. Forest app helps us to beat the Smartphone addiction. This is much more like a game. What you have to do is plant a tree to stay focused. You can set focus timer as per your need. After you start to play this you can not exit the app until the timer becomes zero. To exit early from the app you have to kill your tree. You can earn points as much as you plant. As well you are able to check how you spent your day, week, month, and year. Self-evaluation can inspire and motivate you to stay focus on your work and studies. The most significant feature is you can blacklist and whitelist the apps. But you get this feature with the pro account which is chargeable. I think it is enough to have a free account to stay focused and to make your work done. Stay focused and make your own forest.

Visit the official website:- https://www.forestapp.cc/

Sleep Town

Most of the days we plan to sleep early. But we browse social media, gossip sites and etc before sleep which keeps us awake until late-night. Because of this bad practice, we lose 3, 4 hours from our healthy sleep. As per the researches done so far, it is revealed that a well-grown adult needs 7–9 hours of sleep, and children and teenagers need more. It does not matter to have a lack of sleep if you are in some exceptional situations like upcoming exams, project deadlines so on. But to keep awake in vain is a very bad habit and can make you weak. You might have a 7–9 hours sleep though you sleep at late-night as a habit. But still, you are not having a healthy sleep. We should fall asleep at least by 12 am to have a healthy sleep. So here I suggest you to use the Sleep Town app to build healthy sleep habits. This app is developed by the same group developed Forest app. This app also works as the Forest app. It is much more like a game. Here you can build buildings. What you have to do is, set bedtime and wake-up time and start playing. Before you sleep you have to click sleep and active the app. After this step, you can not use your mobile phone or leave the app. If you leave the app, your building destroys. So have a healthy sleep and build your own town. Don’t waste your precious time and energy on your phone.

Visit the official website:- https://sleeptown.seekrtech.com/

Study Bunny

It is a much difficult task to be focused on our studies or on our work. In this case, a focus timer app is a must thing to have on our Smartphone. Here I bring you another good suggestion, Study Bunny which is more like to Focus app. But here can see some features that are not available in the Focus app. You can use different apps on your Smartphone even when this app is running on the background. This is a plus point for those who need to access some other apps when they focus on their tasks. As well you can save your daily workload using the To-do list feature. I think it is a good thing to have a focus timer and a to-do list in one app. You can be productive and organized at the same time. Moreover, you can pause your set focus timer when you feel like struggling to focus and restart it when you are ready to continue. Here you can earn coins while stay focus and you can spend your coins on items for your bunny or on music tracks from store. Of course, you can listen to these music tracks when you study or work. Also, you can enjoy interesting flashcards and customizable study tools and trackers. This app is more like a game comparative to Forest. It is really eye-catching and interesting to play. But you can be distracted because of some features like the ability to access other apps and allowing to pause the timer.

Visit the official website:- https://www.superbyte.site/studybunny

Above I told you how to set your mind up to stay productive and save time. So now let’s see how to invest our saved time worthfully. You may be at a bus-stop waiting for a bus or you are sitting alone at a party. Sometimes we feel like it is a bad decision to come to this place. It is a time waste. That is okay not to be productive all the time. But that does not mean we can waste our precious time. So what we have to do is, grab our smartphones and use these apps.

Medium

Medium is one of the best apps for those who love to read and write. There are a huge number of stories that you can read. As well you can start to write or continue your articles. So you can invest your money on something worthy at your fingertips.

Visit the official website:- https://medium.com/

Sololearn

Sololearn is a must-have mobile app for programmers. No matter where you are in, you can code for free. Moreover, you can learn programming languages for free and get a certificate too. So this is a really good investment for programmers.

Visit the official website:- https://www.sololearn.com/

Duolingo

Duolingo is a good suggestion for enthusiastic language learners. This is a free mobile app that gives us the facility to learn different foreign languages. Here we can learn more than 30 languages for free. We can learn to write, read, listen, and speak in different languages using this mobile app. Moreover, we can answer the questions, write exams, and get rewards. It has a personalized learning system for users. Do not waste your time. Learn new languages and invest your time.

Visit the official website:- https://www.duolingo.com/

This is the end of my article. Thank you for reading. I hope this would be helpful for you.

“Remember that, I can only show you the door. You are the one who walks through it. “

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