Hello everyone and welcome back to the Keep Productive YouTube channel on today's video
We will be taking a look at some Android specific productivity applications
You're probably a bit shocked because I actually own an Android phone
We will be checking them out today and I wanted to round up a few of the best smaller applications out there
That I've recently discovered on the Google Play Store
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So the first on our list is an application called grow habit tracking and
there are so many Android hammer trackers out there including the likes of her bitter Phi and loop but grow habit tracking is a very
Simplified version of these tools now most major tools allow advanced tracking and progress mapping
Whereas grow doesn't do that, it allows you to set a habit with for example a lot of different
You know attributes if you wanted to add say a specific data star also how long you want the habit to?
Progress on for and also setting a reminder and the great thing is once you've set all of that for example meditate everyday
You can see your progress by tapping into the card on the page, but it's very subtle. You can see your mini tree grow
And I quite like the details that you can see behind the card
It's not too much but holds enough information for you to keep progressing with your habit. This application holds a
4.0 on the App Store and it is free at the moment, which is a good opportunity
So for those who are looking for a very simple Hamet tracker
This is quite a nice and visually appealing way to start tracking your habits
so the next application up is an application called focus productivity timer, and there's plenty of
Android timers out there and this one again is a very super basic one
But allows you to create timers for specific activities using the Pomodoro method
You can also track tasks and sync them
With your timers inside of mini cards and what it quite like about this is it has the ability to add music over the top
Some music you do have to pay for however the majority of the basic white noise and wilderness sort of noises in the background
Worked very well and are free to use this one's free and I'd recommend it for people looking for a very basic timer
experience
Next up is an application that I was pretty impressed with
this is the post-it notes application for Android and although being a fairly big company that
3m is it actually provides a pretty neat?
It's simple experience where you can take these digital notes
for example
anything that you write on post-it notes and be able to upload them but the cool thing is you can actually organize them into like
Collaborative boards so that you can actually, you know coordinate a specific group of information
For example, you could have a shopping list and different errands you do on your day
Or you could use it for brainstorming and other such activities
But I was pretty impressed
By the way that they laid out this application and how easy it is to use and if you really used post-it notes
What's cool is you can actually scan them in?
magically, and they get brought into the application but being able to add the post-it note in a digital format reminded me a lot of
Google keep but had a little bit of a sort of edge to Google heap in allowing you to make these boards and
collaborate and organize them in a more
Fine-tuned fashion. This is a free app and included below
So the fourth application on our list was your hour and as you can imagine phone addiction is a big problem these days
many people suffer from it and
I've liked the iOS
application where you can actually see the screen time summary and you can have that on Mac now while some Android phones do this if
They're running the latest version of Google some don't and your hour is a good way to do that
so basically you give it access to the applications that you have running on your phone and it basically
Tracks like a timeline of your day, but it also sets you limits
and for example
I set three hour limit and it will give you sort of a rundown on how you're using that time
You can also set challenges, which is quite cool
So if you want to take yourself off of one hour of the phone won't let you use that phone
You only let user dial abilities, which is pretty cool. So that's one of the many benefits of using this application
The goal behind it is to help you reduce your phone use
But do remember when you're signing up and naturally getting started with it is taking access to some of the other applications
That you're using so just remember that in terms of a privacy aspect
They have over a million downloads, but it's worth checking out their privacy details. So just make sure that and
Finally our final recommendation for Android is standard doubts
Now many of you may know span denotes if you follow this channel. It's a minimal notetaking application
with powerful open source abilities
it's got a real focus on privacy and it allows you to take notes with custom themes and
Developer like settings to really enhance your notes now if you're using it on the free plan, it is really a basic
editing or note-taking experience
It's sort of like simple notes in terms of like just getting started
But if you are premium user it gives you access to the other applications. They've got a range of iOS Android
Mac and Windows applications
And also they have a Linux one if you need it to but it's a great note-taking experience
And works really well across all devices, but they have loads of different themes inside of premium
So unglued standard notes below, but I think you'll really enjoy that one, too
So folks that was a roundup of Android applications. I am looking to do more Android reviews in the future
So do stay tuned and I definitely will improve the quality of the videos as well
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