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This Productivity App Has Made Me Happy To Work
You only need one app to change your world around.
With a new year upon us, I want to try something a little different. Over on my blog, I’ll start publishing articles on products that I genuinely believe in and want to recommend to people.
Now obviously there will be an incentive for me to recommend them (i.e. buying these items will give me a kickback), but I’ll only recommend them if I use them, speak to people of the company, and genuinely enjoy them to suggest them in the first place.
It feels weird to recommend something like this on Medium, hence why it took me so long to post this one (I originally published this article on December 1st, 2023). But with my current goals in mind, I need to push myself out there and try out some new things.
As such, here are my thoughts on a productivity app that continues to change my life.
My favourite productivity app for a time was SoundCloud. It’s not your traditional productivity app, as it just plays music. There’s no accountability feature, timers, notifications, or anything of the sort. For me, it was the occasional music player that I used when I needed to get into a writing zone and I had trouble concentrating.
And I’ll be honest… it wasn’t all that great.
The type of music I like is songs sung in Japanese (so basically K-Pop type of music), soft piano playing, and lo-fi. And what I found with SoundCloud is that music didn’t change all that much either. It was always some kind of remake of a song I heard when I first joined the platform a long time ago or listened to a few years ago.
And even with that “concentration” music of mine, it still took me several hours to get an article complete.
I found myself getting distracted, loading up Steam, and playing some video games for a bit just to “mull over what to write next”. In other words, I procrastinated work in the middle of doing work.
For the past several months, my output for articles has been consistent, regardless of my procrastination tendencies. But my current output wasn’t all that satisfactory. Over the course of an entire day, I only managed a single article.
