Apps To Increase Productivity During Ramadan

With the month of Ramadan, comes a month of lethargy and a lack of productivity as most Muslims are crippled by hunger and thirst, unwilling to face the real world. Dismissing responsibility might sound like the ultimate teenage rebellion, but it comes with its fair share of backlash ranging from lost gains, accumulated responsibilities for the next month or simply existential dread from being unproductive.

The point is, it isn’t a nice feeling. In the fast paced yet slow month of Ramadan, it’s important to keep your productivity in check. Here’s a list of applications to keep you on the edge this month:

1) Todoist:

If you’re having trouble staying organized, whether it be for your professional or your personal tasks, making lists is an amazing way to declutter. With a 4.5-star rating on Google Play, available as a google chrome extension – Todoist stands out. With a clean and easily navigable interface, Todoist has a host of features dedicated to your thought train, your projects and your day to day tasks, statistics and notifications. It is truly a one stop solution for acquiring peace of mind, and staying satisfied in the toughest month of the year.

These constant reminders are essential in Ramadan. The Premium package comes with more features like labels, reminders and project sharing is priced at $28.99/year which is quite reasonable to say the least.

2) Forest:

Most of us tend to be peak procrastinators during Ramadan, staying glued to our phones and devices while desperately looking for distractions from hunger and thirst. However, staying glued to your phone is an epidemic as it critically affects your productivity. Enter, Forest – Designed like a game, its objective is to get you to stay off your phone while simultaneously reminding you to complete tasks. The app comes with a timer ranging from 10 minutes to 2 hours and upon completion will plant a tree in the user interface, however, if you exit the application, the tree will die – consolidating a dead tree to mark your failure in your personalized forest.

The application also provides graphs to track progress and an ambient soundtrack to assist in your task.

3) Lumosity: A better alternative to distracting yourselves from hunger by endlessly scrolling through social media is Lumosity. With a 4.2-rating on Google play, Lumosity prides itself in being the #1 brain trainer.

Consisting of 50+ fun and interactive games for adults, Lumosity puts your critical thinking and problem-solving skills to the test. Lumosity is collaborated with the scientific community and is tailor made for each individual to help them work on their strengths and weaknesses.

Lumosity is the perfect procrastination tool, helping you get work done when you don’t want to.

4) MyFitnessPal: Despite being free, MyFitnessPal is one of the best calorie tracking apps which is extremely important considering how most of us tend to overeat during Iftar and Sehri.

With a 4.6-rating on Google Play, MyFitnessPal boasts its massive food intaking database and food-intakes. While they support customized goals, they are also willing to curate goals for you – assisting you in weight loss, weight gain or weight maintenance, making your body ready for Eid. MyFitnessPal also logs your exercises and steps, giving you better statistics on how to improve.

The Takeaway:

Technology definitely makes life easier, but it won’t be a check in balance mechanism. As cheesy as it sounds, change starts with you.