4 productivity apps to help you do your job

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Keeping focus at work can be challenging when you have distractions lurking behind every browser tab. Whether you are working from home or office, keeping off social media can be difficult, even for the most committed workers.

Technology and increased connectivity often 'hampers' our work; however, it can also provide a solution to it. Here's a list of four productivity apps that can help keep you get on track at work:

1. The Most Dangerous Writing App

This free app works as a digital gun to users head and comes in handy for those who get distracted easily. Users pick a session ranging from three to sixty minutes, and then type without stopping. A gap of five seconds and the app wipes off all that you have written.



“The Most Dangerous Writing App is designed to shut down your inner editor and get you into a state of flow,” the apps creators say. “If you stop typing for more than five seconds, all progress will be lost.”

2. ANY.DO

Keeping track of things can be hectic when you’re juggling between office work and home. This to-do list app then comes in handy by streamlining all your day’s work and send out timely reminders in case you forget.

“Any.do helps you achieve anything by syncing your personal tasks, work projects, and shared lists so you have a clear path moving forward,” say the apps creators.

Any.do is available for free on both Android and iOS devices.

3. Focus@Will

Listening to music while working may help cancel out distractions in your surroundings, however it will do little to boost your focus. Focus@Will provides users with “scientifically optimised music” which has been re-mastered and re-edited for focus enhancement. Users can subscribe to the service for as little as $8.33 per month. Focus@Will also offers a free trial period of 15 days.

4. Hound

This new personal assistant app uses both voice recognition and text to find results. Users can use the app to do things “such as looking up the weather, placing a phone call, sending a text message, finding a hotel that matches your detailed criteria, navigating to an address, checking the stock market, searching and playing music, and even playing interactive games.”



Hound can then enhance productivity by streamlining tasks and combining them all in a single location. The app is available on both Android and iOS devices.