Guide: So you your smartphone for a more productive life

Everyone sets their own goals to improve themselves. Android Planet lends a hand with various guides around these goals. In this edition: I want to be more productive.

Guide: I want to be more productive

With good intentions and smartphones you can in different directions. For example, more sports, more productive, or just as your smartphone use less. In this guide we look at how you your smartphone is set to become more productive with the right apps and settings.

Apps for productivity

The main way to turn your smartphone into a device to make that work easier, apps. Although companies often have their own apps where you as a worker have no choice in, we explain in this article the focus is on apps where you will be personally productive.

To get your affairs in order is a good calendar is essential. In this calendar, you put all your appointments, so you don’t miss a thing. Here you have several options.

The best option is Google Calendar, due to the fine interface and ease of use. This calendar app makes it very easy to add appointments and to use different views to see what is on your schedule. Mainly fine is that the app you work out of your hands, by data from e-mails to attract and automatically in your calendar. For example, if your airline tickets or booking a hotel.

→ Download Google Calendar in the Play Store (free)

More tips you will find in our list of the best calendar apps for Android

By your tasks anywhere on to write, they are clear and you can easily make them off. There you have several nice lists of apps for.

Todoist is in our opinion the best option. The app looks simple and is easy to use. Tasks far you under several distinct categories: tasks that you have to work with, the tasks that you do today and tasks for the coming week. You don’t have to think about where you have a task, place, because that is done automatically. You type in that you next Tuesday is a deadline, then you know the app is exactly what list that task, and you get on time a warning.

→ Download Todoist in the Play Store (free)

To be productive, it is important to thoughts and ideas that come into your mind quickly jot down. Then your head is free again for other thoughts and you can be sure that your good ideas are not lost. However, make sure that you these ideas every now and then view and possibly me. Keep your notes then clutter by removing what you no longer need.

The finest note-app Keep Google. The app keeps it simple: you add a note, save it and find it later back. Yet, Keep full features.

→ Download Google Keep in the Play Store (free)

Settings and tips

In addition to apps, there are even more ways to boost your productivity. Both through Android settings as concrete tips.

Notifications on your smartphone is affecting your productivity negatively. Every time you get a notification, you have the focus lost. It takes back to you in the same flow. Therefore, it is important to minimize unnecessary notifications to receive.

During the work, you can of course ‘do not disturb’, but perhaps you will then miss out something important. With Android 9.0 (Pie) you get more opportunities to do something about it. Press and hold the do not disturb button on the settings panel to control the behavior and the exceptions to this mode to set.

Another option is to have your notifications to manage. Since Android 8.0 (Oreo) are there notificatiekanalen for available. Through these channels, you can choose what notifications apps are allowed to send. We put everything on Android-notificatiekanalen at a glance.

Although the slim seems to constantly have to work more to get things done, is it smarter to regularly take a break. Even though it is only five minutes per hour. By off to something else to do, you get new energy to get started.

There are several ways in which this break can fill. For example, go for a short walk, do a workoutsessie with the app 7 Minute Workout or do a short meditation session with an app such as Headspace.

A category of apps that your productivity can seriously affect social media. These apps offer every time you look something new, so it’s very tempting to every time you phone there to tackle. Think of new tweets, new photos on Instagram or (especially time consuming) new videos on YouTube.

You can choose the apps to delete from your phone so as to not be tempted to come, but you can do it yourself also just a little harder to make them to go away in a folder. Extra efficient is the use of the apps limit by Digital well-being. This app is however only for a limited number of devices to use.

Therefore, Forest is a nice alternative. This app places a seed on your screen that grows into a tree if you phone is not in use. If you do, then verschrompelt the tree.

→ Download Forest in the Play Store (free)

A category that’s hard to ignore during the update, your e-mails. The chances are that you regular e-mails to ingest where you are all not waiting for. Yet they ask you to focus your attention. Think of mailing lists of shops, apps, and all sorts of other services.

In place of these e-mails each time to throw away and continue to work, is it smarter to take the trouble yourself to write. Then you have not the next day or the next week the same problem. In this way, your inbox is becoming calmer and you’re more productive.

Inbox by Google is a amazing email application that allows you to easy on yourself unless you opt out of newsletters. Unfortunately, Google this app stop. Fortunately, there are good Menu alternatives.

Do you have tips for a more productive life via your smartphone? Make yourself heard in the comments under this article.

21 January 2019, 20:40 | Views: 204