The Apple Watch can help people track their health and fitness, but it can also be a great tool to help people stay productive and get their job done. This is especially true for those who are easily distracted by their phones.
While the Apple Watch comes with simple built-in productivity apps such as reminders and calendars, it’s worth exploring some third-party apps designed to increase productivity by providing extra features.
To-do Items
To-do Items It’s a great app for managing tasks on your Apple Watch when you don’t want to unplug your iPhone. The application allows you to create and manage tasks, organize them into projects, mark them as complete, and set reminders. You can add tasks via voice commands or via keyboard.
The app is great for those who prefer to browse their wrists quickly rather than pulling their phone out while doing things, such as checking out groceries lists in the store, or taking a quick note of gaze or reminder.
You can see the progress of the task directly from the Apple Watch’s hands. For example, you can choose to add your next task or the percentage of tasks that have been displayed for the day.
Todoist is free, and if you want other features like custom task reminders, AI assistants, calendar layouts, and more, there is a $4 monthly subscription.
draft
Since the Apple Watch doesn’t have a note-taking app, draft A great app for those who want a digital notepad without a phone. You can capture notes through voice commands, WatchOS doodle feature, or keyboard.
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Your draft inbox syncs from your iPhone and displays the number of drafts you have, while also displaying the number of marked drafts so you can quickly access important drafts.
The app defaults to blank instructions, giving you a place to quickly enter your ideas without interrupting your thinking process. You can submit notes to a folder to organize your ideas, or just free-flowing canvas.
The app is free and offers a monthly subscription of $1.99 if you want to access other features such as topics and the ability to send emails to the app.
Focus
Focus This is a great application for those who want a productivity timer to help them get their job done and want to get the task done at once. The app is designed to break down your working hours into smaller chunks and calls it a “focus meeting.” By working in a meeting, you can focus on the task at hand before continuing on to the next task.
By staying focused with your Apple Watch instead of your phone, you can minimize distractions. You can quickly browse your wrist to see how much time is left in the focus meeting and then start working again. The focus will also encourage you to take a break between meetings.
The app costs $7.99 per month.
itself
itself It’s one of the most popular Apple Watch apps to track your sleep, and there’s a good reason. The app lets you know about your sleep quality, heart rate, sleep consistency and more. It helps you track the time it takes to fall asleep and measure the efficiency of your sleep.
Autosleep shows you all this data with a clock view with a sleep ring, quickly outlining your statistics in a similar way to the watch’s active ring. You can see if you need enough sleep or need to try more sleep.
The app also shows you a “ready” score that estimates your mental and physical preparation, based on how you sleep, how your day before OURA RING’s application handles the same metrics. It can also recommend you go to bed to make sure you fall asleep.
You can access the app for a one-time fee of $5.99.
stripe
stripe It’s a great app for people who want to form good habits and track their progress. Complete tasks every day and your stripes will be extended. If you break the chain, the steak will reset to zero. You can track up to 24 habits such as dental floss, practice a new language and eat a healthy diet.
The app also allows you to track tasks that don’t happen every day. For example, you might want to set up a task to go to work from Monday to Friday, go to the gym three days a week, or avoid junk food on weekends.
A quick look at the Apple Watch allows you to quickly see what tasks you still need to complete on the day, view your progress, and mark tasks as completed.
The one-time fee for the app is $5.99.
Fantasy
Fantasy is a great calendar app that helps you stay organized from your Apple Watch. You can use the app to create events and set reminders that you can view quickly.
The Apple Watch app has three views you can choose from. The Next view gives you a quick overview of your next appointment and current weather. The List view shows you any events and tasks that will appear in the coming days, as well as the expected weather forecast. The Tasks view summarizes all your tasks into one view and allows you to quickly click to check them.
The app also allows you to receive alerts about upcoming events and tasks. If you want this information on the surface of your hand, Fantastical’s smart stack widget allows you to quickly browse your calendar.
Fantastic fee is $4.99 per month.
Things 3
Things 3 Be an excellent productivity manager who can help you create to-do lists, manage projects and track the progress of your goals. It can be used to organize your personal, work, financial and other aspects into special “fields”.
The app has reminders, calendar integrations, widgets, tags to categorize your to-do list and more. Things 3 also lets you automatically repeat to-do items according to the schedule you set and provides special places for evening plans under the Tonight section.
As the day goes on, you can quickly check what’s on your wrist and add new things on the go.
You can get 3 from a one-time payment of $9.99.
