The Apps I Use Every Day to Help Me Focus
If you need your phone, keep things as simple as possible.
The only way to make technology work with productivity is to keep things dead simple. In a time where we are constantly bombarded with notifications and screens are always screaming for our attention, sticking to more than a few apps to use daily on your phone is a recipe for getting lost, losing your focus, and forgetting what you were going to do when you opened your phone.
I try to use my phone as little as possible. It’s always on silent, I keep it in my backpack, even at home, when I don’t use it. A lot of the apps I’m going to talk about are synced with my laptop, which is actually where I use them the most because that’s where I get 90% of my work done.
Of the 6 apps I’m about to present, there are 2 I couldn’t do without Notion, and TickTick. Everything else is replaceable and I would encourage you to test out other apps you think will help you.
TickTick
TickTick is a todo app that comes with a great built-in calendar function, which is the only reason I chose it over the competition.
The calendar
The calendar is amazing. This is what it looks like in the weekly view:
