Productivity apps are a dime a dozen for the iPhone – or more accurately, an average of $1.67 a dozen if OmniFocus happens to be one of them. Irregardless, there are a lot of them out there. Also irregardless is the fact that you should avoid the majority of them (there are a few exceptions, which I will delve into further in a post to come sometime in the eventual future). I must point out, however, there are other apps out there that are secretly plotting to hinder your eventual progress. They are in disguise. Like Transformers. Only unlike the robots, they help you transform your life – and in an eventual manner that flies in the face of, well, Eventualism. Not cool. Here are 3 of them and here’s why you need to avoid them at all costs – free or otherwise:
- Sleep Cycle. This one helps promote a healthy sleep cycle by sensing your movements while you sleep. It wakes you up gradually as close to your alarm setting as possible and does so when you are in your lightest sleep phase. As an Eventualist, this is information that you do not need. It also means you can’t eventually go to sleep listening to your iPhone because you can’t do anything once the app is running other than, well, run the app. The only thing it does do (other than help you get a good night’s sleep and a great start to you day) is not have a “snooze” option. Still, it removes all of the eventualness that surrounds “meditating in.”
- Couch 2 5K. Sure, it “eventually” gets you from sitting on the couch to running five kilometers over a short time span, but at what cost? Do you really want to give your couch separation anxiety? I’d endorse this if it was 5K 2 Couch, because at least there’s a goal in sight I can get behind – and sit my behind on.
- Stanza. An iPhone can read to you, and this app does not. It makes you read. Words. A ton of ‘em. Stick with the audio kind, if you must read. Otherwise, stick to the YouTube app. That Merton guy is a riot!
iTrust you’ll stay from these. Frankly, I don’t understand how these apps got approved in the first place. Surely Apple must start to realize they have to clamp down and really make it hard to get an app in their store. This innovative way to hide productivity has to end – if only Apple was more controlling.
Sigh.
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“Irregardless” is NOT A WORD!!!
I didn’t not know that.