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If you use your phone while working, it’ll be hard not to switch between apps and get distracted. Even if you don’t use it, it takes a lot of self-restraint to keep the device away. But ironic as it sounds, some apps won't take up your time and should instead keep you from wasting it. P.S: clicking on the app logos will take you to their website! Scheduling AppsMaking a schedule Source 1. Tick Tick: It’s a simple and to-do list and task manager app which helps you make schedules and organize your day’s or week’s tasks and classify them based on urgency. Available on: iOS | Android | Web 2. Trello: It allows you to manage schedules & tasks and maintain to-do lists in the form of boards. Available on: iOS | Android | Desktop and Web 3. Evernote: It’s a planner and a daily organizer combined into one allowing the user to write and share notes. Available on: iOS | Android | Web Company specific appsThe apps in this list are from the three major players in the industry that essentially do the same work and allow the user to maintain notes and set up reminders using the specific calendar app of the phone.
Timer Apps"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." ~Stephen R. Covey 1. Focus To-Do: Incorporates the Pomodoro technique along with maintaining task lists, calendar events, and setting up schedules along with task priority settings. Available on: iOS | Android 2. Timely: Timely allows you to track the hours of your day as well as keep project and task records. Available On: iOS | Android Phone Locker AppsPhone Lock Source 1. Forest – Stay Focused: The forest app allows you to plant a tree from durations of 10 minutes to 2 hours and disables apps to keep you focused and away from your phone. All apps or selective apps can be added to the list that have to be disabled so that if apps like email, gallery, contacts need to be accessed they can be opened. The app also allows you to play ambient sounds that may help you focus. The Pro version costs 2 dollars which allows you to plant along with friends and the company also plants real trees for a specific amount of in app currency that is earned by planting trees. 2. Digital Wellbeing (Android): Digital Wellbeing is an inbuilt app for android phones and a product of Google. It allows you to track daily screen time, set up parental controls and limit time spent on each app and schedule down times for your phone. 3. Screen Time (iOS): Screen Time is the Apple device equivalent of Digital Wellbeing but it is a setting option rather than an app and can easily be accessed via the main menu of settings. Phone Apps Source Steven Covey also said, "Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent, and not enough time on what is important." All in all, there are plenty of brilliant tools easily accessible for free that you can find. Make sure to have fun with the technology that surrounds you but also improve your work ethic in an easy way. We can give you the tips but to implement them is, of course, up to you!
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What are you supposed to be doing right now? If the answer is taking a well-earned break, then congratulations! You must already be good at managing your time. However, if you are supposed to be working, and instead all you do is scroll through Instagram, play with your pet, watch a video about procrastination, or perhaps spend your time reading blogs, then this one could prove very helpful! "It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?" -- Henry David Thoreau We’ve all had days with too much piled onto our plates. But we all have the same twenty-four hours in a day. You can have all the tools a vet needs to be successful, but if you don't know how to organize your time, you cannot expect to achieve your goals to the fullest. So how is it that some people are just more productive than others and can get more work done?
Three key strategies There are many techniques for maximizing efficiency in the time you have, namely the ones given below. Here are a few, categorized according to what you might be looking to accomplish:
What kind of techniques do you use and has it proved to be effective? Do let us know, and check out the next post for some apps that will take using these techniques to the next level!
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