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I was recently asked to classify my smartphone addiction on a scale from 1 to 10 – 1 means “it is not a problem” and 10 means “it is a big problem.” After looking at one second, I said 8.
Despite my best to keep my country The phone face down As possible, I still receive it and check my notifications when I know that there is nothing waiting for me. I am still Doomscroll.
But now, in the end, I may have found a way to break a 6 -inch screen talisman. Enter Concentration is a friend.
The app calls itself the “GamFied concentration timing”, and on the surface, it is a simple concept. My friend, focus is a smiling, Pinto Pino, who loves socks and scarves. Those likable goods can be traded to decorate the beans room.
The problem is that a bean friend has difficulty focusing on knitting, and they can only focus when I do not use my phone. If you want to decorate the beans room (which starts without any window), I must prepare a temporary concentration.
Basically, let my phone kidnap my phone.
Click “Focus!” A button in the app allows me to set a temporary between 5 and 120 minutes. After I arrived at “Start”, I will see a fun fee for beans with the turning of her back, and to formulate something with knitting needles.
If you click on the “Configurated” button before the timer runs out, you will surrender the beans and anything that will move it will disappear. The beans will also look incredibly disappointed.
Between focus/knitting sessions, I can use socks and scarves that I collected to buy furniture, plants and wall decorations to add them to the beans room. The first element that I added was a window. In the end, I want to put the “Lo-Fi Green” series (costs 300 socks, so it will take a few concentration sessions).
Focus Friend is a girls ‘girls’ ideas of Hank Green. As a somewhat regular viewer of his videos, I learned about the application shortly after its release. Green launched a number of great ideas over the years, such as YouTube Educational channel Crashing and Subscribe to the socks To collect funds for charitable work. However, I was surprised when I learned that Focus Friend became No. 1 free iOS application in America Last week.
So far, I really enjoyed using Focus Friend. I usually set 15 -minute concentration sessions, which clung to me about one sock per minute. I found myself focusing better on my writing when I can’t make my phone mandatory and start opening Instagram or Tiktok.
Focus Friend is not a guaranteed solution. Although it seems that crowded beans have acquired my phone, I can still get out of the application. I can do something else on my phone, and the beans will continue to knit as if I were already focusing. (She, do not tell the beans that I found.)
However, there is a strong thing about opening my phone and seeing beans strongly at work under words, “Don’t interrupt me!” It makes me want to work harderly myself. I don’t want to disappoint the beans!
The app is free, although anyone can pay $ 3 to $ 6 to cancel the bean leather lock. Options include colored gel, “Kitt-Mney” in the form of a cat, and a version of the beans from the creator of the application, Hank Bean (as well as John Bean, based on the co-historian of Green and his real brother John).
Is the friend focus the solution to emptying? It only works if you make the effort to start a concentration session, and I don’t always have the power of will. What if I expected a notification? What if you enjoyed beating without an application to another?
Then again, I really want to give my “Lo-Fi Green” series lamps.