#focusplant

[justashthewriter]

Hi guys!

I haven't posted any story in the past few months, I apologize, but uni has been hard and I'm struggling with studying. Because of that, I've decided to test some apps to help me with motivation and focus. The first I've downloaded is Focus Plant.

Because I know there are a lot of peole here who have the same problems as me, I'll be updating you about my progress with this app and if it's worth it. Maybe I will also start writing again.

Day 1

Rn I've studied for 50 minutes, I'm going to continue until I'm done with at least 2 topics for my exam. I already have 7 plants.

Day 4

Study time: 10 hrs 30 minutes (together)

Today: 0 (planning a study session in an hour)

Plants: 18

Topics done: 8/17 (today I plan on finishing 4-5)

I've noticed improvement in my studying, rn I'm able to do 2 pomodoro sessions in row (25 min/5 min break + 30 minute break after the 4th). I still have a lot to study for my exam, so (hopefully) I will be able to finish it on time.

The app has motivated me because I like collecting stuff in general and the little plants are cute.

Edit: I also used the app for cleaning and managed to finish under 2 hrs. Yay!

Day 7

Study time: 25 hrs 30 minutes (together)

Today: 0

Plants: 23

Topics done: 17/17

Today I took my exam and got an A! I'm so happy with the progress I've made. And because this was my last exam and for the next few weeks I have holidays, I will switch from studying to using the Focus Plant for my hobbies. I wanna read and write again, but also try new things, so I will be giving you updates on these things for now (until uni starts again).

Reading time: 20 minutes

Day 21

Focus time (February): 19 hrs 43 minutes

Today: 0

Plants: 23

Most focus: Creative work

I've been using the app when I was trying to focus on hobbies or cleaning so here are the stats:

7,5 hrs on creative work (drawing, writing, embroidery, etc.)

5 hrs spent cooking

3 hrs on random studying

2,5 hrs on cleaning

1,5 hrs reading Animal Farm

I'm so happy I finally found a way to study, I've always struggled with it as I never really learnt how to study. Uni starts next week, so this will be my last update until then.

[pancake-tries-college]

This is something I will have to read later however I’ll givr the suggestion of the app focusplant, been using it a while, plus you get little plant friends!

Hey! I read your study tips both posts regarding adhd . (Feel free to ignore )

I am still undiagnosed and I think it's adhd but i do not have the resources nor the environment or support system to do anything about it .I am a high schooler preparing for entrance exams and i really need to like get my shit together and i feel like i have wasted sm time already but i really do want to get better. When i sit to study i just can't focus if I keep my phone in some other room then also i would just sit and stare at my books without accomplishing something. I am trying really but it's feels like my brain is frozen and my body is moving .my brain keep screaming guilty and ashamed but i can't seem to do anything about it.your study post actually i related to a lot because pomodro kind of seems to be working for everyone but me and the you described the exact same things I do

I know this is a lot to ask for please feel free to ignore but how do I stop Letting my emotions take over and study consistently because I only have one chance at the exams

Oh my, first of all I’d like to say that, as cliché as it is, I know exactly how you feel. I was undiagnosed for so long (I was only diagnosed a few months ago) and I didn’t even know that the adhd things I experience on a regular basis wasn’t normal or neurotypical for so long.

first up : I know this is difficult, but please do not say such things about yourself. I’m not gonna get into the whole thing, (cuz I have done a post on that already) but it’s true that the more you drill that bad stuff into your brain, the more it’s gonna stick. We need our brains to be in the best condition possible to study efficiently and saying bad stuff about yourself that isn’t even true is just going to hinder your performance. You got this. I promise you’re not lazy. Your brain just isn’t motivated by the same things others are, but we can work with that simple difference.

I’ll make a separate post on how not to let your emotions take over, but for now …

adhd study tips for those trying to get into the habit.

— by a stem student with adhd.

here’s my first post on adhd study tips.

— don’t put your phone in a different room. Instead, download an app that prevents you from using other apps on your phone.

there’s plenty of apps that do this but the one I prefer is ypt because all its features are completely free and it stops your timer when you exit the app unless you enter ‘allowed app mode.’ I don’t know about you, but if I find that I’m just zoning out on my textbook then I end up stopping my timer and deleting the record because I know I didn’t actually study, and this motivates me to actually get some work done. The timer also gets me motivated to keep going for longer so I have physical proof of my focus time and studies. It will feel good to even have just 1 hour of study time on it, I promise.

— even if you’re not interested in your studies, try your best to find even one thing that interests you.

novelty, challenge and interest are some of the best motivators of the adhd brain, so use it. I know that sparking your curiosity for a subject you hate seems impossible, but hear me out.

ever since I was young, I was exposed to books and I drew everyday. This caused me to become very passionate about the arts, but since I had adhd and didn’t know, I failed all my classes and specifically hated chemistry because it was specifically designed to be everything that I can’t be good at due to my poor memory and the need to memorize a TON of concepts. Then during class one day, I was doing chemistry work with my friends and felt frustrated that they could easily balance equations and work out which compounds were acids or bases purely by its chemical formula. And that’s what sparked me to start reading my textbook to see what the big deal was. How was it possible for one to just know when something is a acid solely from looking at a bunch of letters? This started a chain reaction; I found my answer, and found that the process of finding my answer and learning this new information was fulfilling. So I looked at all the other chemistry topics, and it turns out chemistry was fun. I was supposed to be an art student but now I’m majoring in chemistry and biology, all because of that sense of challenge and curiosity I was given that day.

tdlr; I was bad at chemistry but I’m now majoring in it because I felt challenged by a friend and was curious to know how they could solve chem equations easily.

All it took was a bit of curiosity. It’s a very powerful thing to the adhd brain. And if you use this as a motivator for your studies it might even cause you to hyper-fixate on your work, which means you’ll naturally spend more time studying just to find all the answers you’re now dying to know.

— use the pomodoro timer, but think about the things that you have to do that seems a little impossible to do under 25 minutes.

This fulfills the ‘challenge’ category I mentioned in the previous tip.

Let me explain; I subconsciously started doing this to myself without anyone telling me this and it’s helped me a LOT. Here’s an example;

“This chapter’s too long, it’s impossible to read through everything and understand the key concepts in just twenty five minutes.”

is it, though?

So I was off to the races, genuinely reading through every page and taking note of every single heading or bold or italicized word so I will be able to summarize the entire topic by the time the twenty five minutes is up.

And it doesn’t even matter if you don’t make that twenty five minute mark, because you’ll feel a sense of defeat and try it again with another chapter/topic.

this accomplishes two things; one, the work you’ve been putting off or zoning out on is now probably 20% - 50% completed and now you feel motivated to continue. Two, this method will train you to be faster in learning or studying new material or even just completing work in general, depending on what you’re challenging yourself to do.

— dress up, do your hair, study at a library or cafe you love (and possibly make pretty notes.)

I’ve talked about interest, I’ve talked about challenge, and now I’m gonna talk about novelty.

Do this with purpose! But what do I mean by that?

I’m sure you’ve come across studious girls in media or even people on social media making videos and taking pretty photos of their day out to study. Usually they’re dressed the part and even if they’re not, there’s a certain vibe, aesthetic or aura about them that is just so desirable that it makes you wish you were doing what they were doing. And if you don’t feel this way, find content creators or media that do make you feel this way.

How will this help me? Well, there are actually a few reasons but the first one that comes to mind is that this is also an adhd tip used outside of studying. Combining a task you don’t want to do with a task you’d like to do is a faster and more efficient way of convincing yourself to do long, difficult or even tiring tasks. Another is that doing this would also mean you’ve technically gotten yourself to desire studying, something more commonly known as romanticizing studying. If you make studying look fun, glamorous or even desirable for yourself then you’re sure to get to the hideous parts of it. Think about being a straight A student, someone who’s always wearing nice clothes with great hair and such a focused work ethic. Once you desire to be that person and you dress like that person, you’ll start to do the things that person will do.

— use the pomodoro timer but set it to even shorter bursts instead. (e.g. 15 minutes work, 5 minutes break.)

Or hell, on my worst days I set it to 5 minutes work, 5 minutes break.

The whole point of this exercise is to just start, because that’s arguably the hardest part about studying, you can’t get yourself to actually start or to actually focus. So promise yourself a five minute break after a very short amount of time of reading.

— skip straight to the questions of a topic, try to do them and identify the information you need to get the answer right.

For example, I came across a bio question that was rather simple but I didn’t know the answer to because I haven’t revised the topic for a while, and the question was, what is needed in the body for anaerobic respiration to take place? And the answer was simple, but I didn’t know because again, I didn’t study the material before answering the paper.

one’s brain can have the habit of being complacent especially when you don’t wanna do work, so diving head first into the questions and realizing that you don’t know jack shit would be a good wake up call for you and your brain—and this can connect to the second point that I made because you might find that you’d be eager to get the answer right all on your own, and become curious as to what the answer is.

important to remember …

erase everything bad that you were told or led to believe about studying. I promise that if you look for ways to make it engaging for you and form a habit, studying can be something you don’t dread or worry about everyday. You are capable. This is the start of your journey. Yes, the question of ‘what if I get distracted again’ will always be there but think about what could happen if today is the first day you’re not distracted. If you don’t at least try to start now, you will have zero chance of being able to actually focus and study. But if you try, the worst that will happen is that you tried. If you keep trying, it will happen. I promise.

If you need any more tips regarding adhd, (or being undiagnosed,) please do let me know. I’ll do my best to help.

[psixologiyaze]

Yaxşı vərdişlərə yiyələnməyinizə kömək edəcək 4 oyun tipli aplikasiya:

1. Studybunny -işinizlə/dərsinizlə məşğul olduğunuz müddətdə qəpiklər yığılır, həmin qəpiklərlə dovşana geyim, yemək alırsınız. 🐰

2. PlantNanny -gün ərzində aizə su içməyi xatırladan bu oyunda su içdikcə toxuma d su verirsiniz. Beləliklə, siz su içdikcə bitki böyüyür, içmədikdə solur.🍀

3. Focusplant -2. oyuna bənzəyən bu aplikasiya sizə telefondan istifadə müddətinizi azaltmağa kömək edir. Pomodoro texnikasına əsaslanan bu oyunda daha çox çalışdıqca öz meşa sahənizi yarada bilərsiniz.🍀

4. 21 days -araşdırmalara görə istənilən hərəkət 21 gün davamlı təkrar olunduqda vərdiş çevrilir. Bu aplikasiyada müəyyən vərdişi seçib jər gün ona uyğun məşqlər tapa bilərsiniz. 🔋

[harley-the-pancake]

I enjoy Forest on my laptop, you aren’t able to switch out to the different funky plants unless you have the app on mobile (which costs moneys) but it’s still effective

Meanwhile on my phone, I fucking love me some focusplant

quick question anyone know any good website blockers? i Need to get work done but i keep wanting to not do it and open something else