{"id":7868,"date":"2021-11-01T17:17:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=7868"},"modified":"2021-11-01T17:17:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T00:17:32","slug":"productivity-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/11\/01\/productivity-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"7869\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?attachment_id=7869\" class=\"wp-image-7869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2021\/11\/elena-taranenko-hCUA4xtxVTA-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you use any of these Productivity Applications on your phone? Apps like To-Do, Evernote, Be Focused, Freedom, Trello, Toggle, and the list is endless. These apps fall into two categories &#8211; checklist type or focus type. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I find the checklist type of productivity applications helpful when I have a lot of things to check off, such as grocery list, wish list items, components to an assignment, and even event planning. Many of these applications connect your phone to the computer, so it doesn&#8217;t matter where you sign on, your checklist follows you around. I think this really helps to make sure you are diligent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The focus type of productivity applications is foreign to me. Perhaps it is because I grew up in an environment where I was told electronics are a distraction. From elementary to halfway through high school, I was without a phone or a mp3 player. I find it strange that applications are developed to help us focus for x-amount of minutes on a specific task at a time. Have any of you used these applications before? Do they work for you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I tried using a focus app called Forest for a little while. How this works is before I start my task, I plant a seed and as time goes on, my seed grows. The tree keeps growing until you turn off the application. Did this work for me? I was actually more interested in seeing my trees grow than focusing on my task at hand. I understand that the brain can only focus for a certain amount of time, but how I get through work is just to buckle down and get to work. Or even when I work on assignments, I usually set aside an hour here and there and make those hours worth it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What are your thoughts on productivity apps? Do they work for you? Is there a potential for them? What is your ideal productivity app?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you use any of these Productivity Applications on your phone? Apps like To-Do, Evernote, Be Focused, Freedom, Trello, Toggle, and the list is endless.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/11\/01\/productivity-applications\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Productivity Applications<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7486,"featured_media":7869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7486"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/7871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}