Today’s guest post is written by Curt Steinhorst, best-selling author of “Can I Have Your Attention?”, and founder of Focuswise. He travels the globe working with organizations to reduce distraction and improve communication—to help put the “work” back in the workplace. Focus is a team sport Last month, we established an important truth: productivity is…
Have it all, be it all, and do it all. When it comes to work, sometimes it can seem like the only path to success. You find yourself putting in more hours, downloading cool new apps, and doing your best to keep up with social media. Does this sound familiar? The risk of burnout is…
After much anticipation, we’re thrilled to announce that our most-requested feature – Freedom for Android – is now available for download. Freedom for Android is now included in your Freedom Premium plan – making it easier than ever to block your digital distractions across all of your Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android devices. BRINGING APP-BLOCKING…
It’s easy to assume that multitasking will allow you to do double the work in half the time—after all, if you’re doing two things at once, your productivity must skyrocket, right? Not quite. Unfortunately, while we may feel that our productivity increases when we multitask, practical results and countless studies tell us otherwise. When you…
The short answer: not any more. Since August 18, 2018, there is no longer a single app on the iOS App Store that will allow you to block apps or their content. Since then, Freedom and a number of other content-blocking apps were removed from the app store under the premise of needing to remove…
How much time did you spend on your phone yesterday? Most of us don’t have a clue. While we text, browse social media and interact with addicting mobile apps, minutes slip away. Smartphone use has become so prevalent that we hardly even notice it anymore. It’s hard to believe that only 11 years have passed…
At Freedom, we love our users – not just because they use our product, but because they’re cool – cool people working on cool stuff. Academy Award-nominated screenwriters, best-selling authors, editors, developers, cartoonists, designers, academic researchers, explorers, and entrepreneurs – the Freedom community is packed with curious, creative, and efficient go-getters. We love to share their stories and advice, because how better to learn about productivity than from the…
Nowadays, it’s rare to totally unplug from our smartphones, even when we could be taking time to relax. We check our notifications while we’re out to eat with friends, we open our inboxes before we even pour our morning coffee, and we end up fixated on the latest headlines when we should be trying to…