These Apps and Sites Will Keep Your Focus and Productivity in Check While You Work From Home
With all that is happening in the world, working from home is likely your reality, as well as everyone else’s. And if you’re struggling, then girl, you aren’t alone. It’s hard to stay focused when there’s a ton of distractions around you. It’s either little ones making their debut in your morning Zoom calls with your co-workers, or COVID news briefings every 30 minutes flooding your feeds. But with this cheat sheet of apps and websites, you’ll be staying focused and productive until you’re able to go back to the office.
Headspace
Let’s get real for a second: this is a really weird and stressful time. This app is for meditation and is amazing at eliminating your stress, and improve your lack of focus, and health. Make sure you make time to decompress and spend some time on your mental health. Your brain, and drive to do work, will thank you.
Forest
This app not only helps you stay off your phone, but is super cute too. Whenever you want to stay focused for a chunk of time, you open the app on your phone and “plant a tree.” The tree will grow while you work, but if you leave the app, the tree “dies.” By the end of the week you’ll have a cute virtual “forest” showing you how focused you’ve been!
Trello
If you need a visual for organizing your work, Trello makes it a snap. You can create boards to organize projects, dynamic “to-do” cards, share and collaborate with co-workers, and it syncs with the cloud to update all devices automatically.
Flowstate
If you need a kick in the ass to write something, this is the app that will help you. Flowstate allows you to name your writing session and set the amount of time you’d like to write (anywhere from 1 – 80 minutes). Once your session begins, if you exit early or stop writing for 5 seconds, it will delete everything you’ve been working on. How’s that for motivation?
Evernote
Definitely something you’ll want to use after we’re done with social-distancing. Evernote is a documentation management system that works on all devices and interfaces well with Slack, Outlook, and Salesforce. It stores text files, spreadsheets, images, receipts, checklists, audio recordings, video recordings, and workflows.
Brain FM
If you get distracted by every little noise or sounds, this app helps. The team behind this app have created music that helps you be more productive. So just throw some headphones on, and get to work.
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