5 Free
Apps for Getting Your Morning Started
Sleep
better, get caught up on the news, beat traffic, and more.
The
work day waits for nobody, least of all the non-morning people. These apps may
not guarantee that you'll get up all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, but they can
help you ease into your day a little more easily.
Nothing
ruins a day like a poor night’s sleep. SleepBot (Android, iOS) uses your phone to listen to you as you
sleep, noting periods of restlessness and snoring. Its built-in alarm wakes you
up during a window of time that you specify, waiting until you’re already
stirring in order to rouse you during a light sleep phase so that you don’t
feel groggy.
Calendar
apps are a dime a dozen, but Sunrise Calendar (Android, iOS) does an admirable job of playing nicely
with other scheduling services—Google Calendar, Exchange, iCloud, Facebook,
TripIt, and many more—in order to give you a thorough overview of how your
day’s looking. Changing things around and creating new appointments is a snap
as well: The app features a calendar-based keyboard for quick additions.
Microsoft likes Sunrise so much that it recently bought it
.
If
you can’t seem to get out of bed in the morning, Alarmy (Android) might be your last hope.
The damn thing makes you get out of bed and take pictures of stuff to shut it
up. Brutal, but effective.
For
a nice overview of what Mother Nature’s up to, try AccuWeather (Android, iOS). The app can leverage your exact location
via GPS to give you detailed weather information, with minute-by-minute rain
forecasts that cover a span of two hours. You’ll know exactly how long you have
until you can close your umbrella, in other words. There are plenty of videos
onboard as well, if you’d prefer to get the forecast from a flesh-and-blood
meteorologist.
SmartNews (Android, iOS) is a quick-loading, no-nonsense news app
that serves up the latest headlines, customized to the kinds of articles you
like to receive and saved so you can read them offline while on the go. If you
just want to check out what’s happening without customizing anything, the app
digs through more than 12 million articles each day to surface the top trending
stories.
Venerable
classic Waze (Android, iOS) is a GPS app that pulls in data from other
Waze users to intelligently route you around troublesome traffic tie-ups. It
gets smarter the more you use it, too, learning your schedule to send you
alerts when you normally leave for work in the morning or get set to sneak out
of the office in the afternoon. You’ll get warnings about speed traps as well;
nothing like starting the morning off with a ticket, eh?
By
Doug Aamoth
http://www.fastcompany.com/3046762/app-economy/5-free-apps-for-getting-your-morning-started?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fast-company-daily-newsletter&position=7&partner=newsletter&campaign_date=
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