There is so much happening in our lives that sometimes we feel like our control on things is getting away from us. It is difficult to keep track of what’s going on, when it comes to eating, sleeping, or saving time. Here are a few life-tracker apps that can help you do just that.
SleepBot – Sleep Cycle Alarm
Studies suggest that the average human, who lives for approximately 78 years, spends 25 of them sleeping. Ever wondered what it is that you do while asleep, besides snoring away to glory and scaring your pet? This app could help. SleepBot tracks and analyses your sleep cycle and nocturnal noises, and wakes you up during the lightest part of your sleep. You can customise the smart alarm, sound recording, or motion tracking, review sleep statistics and debt logs, even take a look at your sleep quality during a certain period of time.
RescueTime
You know you keep getting distracted by all the awesome apps this column suggests to you, and that time gets away from you. Well, now here is an app to track the amount of time you’re actually spending on Temple Run and Candy Crush. (Disclaimer: Neither of these apps has been featured in this column.) RescueTime tracks your voice call time, website usage, app usage, and lets you set alerts and goals to manage the time spent on your smart phone. It also furnishes reports and charts for you to analyse, so you know exactly how to control excessive wastage of time.
Noom Coach: Weight Loss
Noom Coach is basically a weight loss app, plus calorie counter on steroids. Like a good nutritionist (by good, I mean, a non-nagging one), the app informs you of all the healthy choices you can make, and then tracks your progress with regard to your fitness goals. You can enter your goal, log in physical exercise, calorie intake, and such like and the app will keep updating you as to what needs to be done. The pro version lets you be a part of virtual weight loss support groups and also provides healthy yummy recipes.
T2 Mood Tracker
While there are quite a few mood tracker apps on the market, this one features in this column because it was originally designed for the military. That makes this app not only good for you, but also a great tracking and consolidation tool for your doctor (should you feel the need to visit one, of course). The app tracks your emotions over time and over certain behavioural changes – depression, anxiety, general well-being, head injury, post-traumatic stress and general stress. Rate your mood with a slider and it will be compiled in a graph. You can add more categories like after medication, a phone call from a loved one, a stressful daily event and so forth. The only minus point I felt it had was the fact that each day’s data has to be manually saved, or progress during a course of time cannot be tracked.
