Get your productivity going with these apps!
Are you feeling stressed out? Do you feel you could be more productive if only you had more time? If so, read on for some tools to boost your productivity and reduce your stress levels. We got you!
To start with some quick methods before we talk apps.
Try to take breaks often. When you’re constantly working, your brain can start to feel overwhelmed, leading to decreased productivity and increased stress levels.
Take a five-minute break every hour or so to walk around, stretch, or just relax for a bit; it can help refresh your mind and make you more productive when you return to work.
As with any time you are trying to boost productivity, it helps to start small. Set a goal of working more productively for only 15 minutes at a time, with breaks after each section. Once you feel comfortable with that length of time, extend it a bit.
Now, if we use tools within the methods, it can be extra helpful, and it will help you keep track of what you need to do, prioritize your tasks, and work on them most efficiently.
What is to be productive?
Like, really?
Being productive means working efficiently, which allows you to get the most done in the shortest amount of time. It means being able to focus on your tasks and not letting distractions get in the way knowing how to prioritize, planning your time so that you can make the most of it, managing your stress levels, and staying calm and focused under pressure.
We are not machines, yet we can give our best daily while still requiring outside help. That is why different learning approaches may help us achieve things without overworking ourselves or putting in excessive time that could reach burnout.
Burnout checkout!
Burnout from work is a state of physical and emotional exhaustion caused by long-term stress and overwork. It can manifest in physical symptoms such as headaches, muscle pain, problems sleeping, and fatigue and emotional symptoms such as feeling overwhelmed, stressed out, pessimistic, and cynical.
If you are experiencing burnout from work, it’s essential to take a step back and evaluate the situation. Are you working too many hours? Are you feeling overloaded or stressed out? Are your goals and expectations realistic?
If you answer yes to any of these questions, it may be time to make some changes to reduce your stress levels and improve your work-life balance.
Now, the tools!
We’ll talk about the ones that can help you be more productive, ambitious, and even personally organized.
Elisi
This is a checklist of the features you can expect from your new Bullet Journal application. It includes features specific to the Bullet Journal and Kanban and general productivity tools. You may add notes, mark tasks as complete or incomplete, create to-do lists, and plan your goals for the year using this app.
Pomodoro
Pomodoro is a productivity tool that has grown in popularity for assisting with life-work balance. You may block time for a job you want to focus on, work on it for 25–30 minutes, and then take a brief rest. Repeat this sequence four times before taking an extended vacation to reset your mind.
It is all about balancing the breaks and the time you’ll take to work, and then you will see how effective you become with a constant, respectful time balance.
Depending on how complex the work was and how you felt, you may extend the breaks.
Centered
This app uses the “Flow” methodology, but what is “Flow”?
A flow state is a sensation in which you become so absorbed in an activity that time stops passing, as you are comfortable with the physical and mental constraints. Created by psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Jeanne Nakamura.
You may get into a flow state of mind when you’re focused on something you’re passionate about, individually dedicated to, and completely immersed. The usual noise in our heads fades away, allowing us to be in a zone free of interruption.
This application will help you enter the flow state and train you if you find it difficult to concentrate for periods.
The purpose of flow are:
- Keep it simple
- Limit distractions
- Make clear goals
- Make it enjoyable
- Maximize your potential
Slack
Slack offers a lot to offer. It allows us to stay in touch by text, phone, or video conference. It also encourages sharing because you may save important information using links or bookmarks at the top of the channels. You can also make folders and arrange the shared knowledge within the chats using bookmarks.
It integrates applications to create more interaction between different platforms and alerts, automatic messages, polls, and more.
Google workspace
Google applications: Drive, email, Calendar, and Meet are tools that allow us to communicate, organize, plan, present, create and share work. It is Google, after all.
Google Drive It’s a handy tool for writing, creating presentations, generating excel sheets, forms, mind maps, diagrams, and so on.
With all these choices at your disposal, you may produce all of the material you’ll need to work more efficiently while collaborating quickly and sharing with others.
Do you use Gmail? Or do you know it? This software is one of the least utilized or understood in our daily lives. We can build templates filters, schedule emails, establish multiple inboxes, synchronize numerous accounts, manage labels, and a lot more with this program. Do not be scared of your mail, but rather embrace it!
The Google Calendar can not only be your ally for meetings. You can also use it for your time blocking methodology and organize your weeks efficiently, leaving specific spaces for your meetings and the “available times” option.
Tasks, reminders, and out-of-office days can all be pre-planned. You may even schedule your vacations (which will cancel your meetings and send messages to people involved in your work).
If this Calendar is made public, your team will alert you if they need to contact you and give you the time required!
Time is a valuable resource that everyone should appreciate. Knowing your and others’ time allows for easier compliance!
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Slow down too!
Find yourself also looking for apps that can help you relax like yoga, music, Calm, or even exercise if that’s what you need to unwind. Yet, we won’t provide those tools here, or methods, because we wrote a great blog about The importance of Breaks on our website!
And if you want to check the methods that go hand in hand with the apps we just provide you, keep reading on this link to our blog!
To live the dream life you have to create it! Use the methods and the tools!
