Vitamin-R
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business | $5.99 | Frank Reiff | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
Vitamin-R creates optimal conditions for your brain by structuring your work into short bursts of distraction-free, highly-focused activity alternating with opportunities for renewal, reflection and intuition.
The built-in task logging and analysis features create positive momentum towards productivity by providing you with visible feedback on your progress and achievements.
* Slices Up Daunting Tasks into Manageable Chunks *
Vitamin-R breaks down large, vaguely defined tasks into a series of short "time slices" of between 10 and 30 minutes, each with specific, easily reachable and actionable objectives. During these time slices it keeps you focused on accomplishing only this one objective and provides you with mechanisms for dealing with interruptions, poor concentration, etc.
* Gets You Started *
Vitamin-R concentrates on getting you started allowing you to break through the resistance of procrastination and create a positive feedback loop of small achievements that get you closer to your ultimate aims. You will experience less stress caused by looming deadlines and a lack of clear direction, thus enabling you to enjoy guilt-free breaks that allow your intuition and creativity to emerge.
* Keeps You Focused *
Vitamin-R features an array of highly configurable visual, audio and speech notifications that get you back to your task as soon as your attention starts wandering.
* Effective Task Switching *
Task switching is a big, but often unavoidable productivity killer. So when you need to switch tasks Vitamin-R will make it as efficient as possible and help you pick up where you left off later on.
* Productive Breaks *
Regular breaks are not for slackers. In fact, taking regular breaks is especially important for people who work with high focus. Vitamin-R's timed breaks make sure that your renewal break does not turn into a free afternoon and the "priming" technique allows your intuition to work overtime before you even start on a time slice.
* Find Your Rhythm *
Each one of us is different. Finding out what works best for you is the key to true productivity. Vitamin-R gives you the tools to gain awareness of where you spend your time and what works for you. Armed with this new knowledge, you can eliminate unproductive work patterns and discover the work rhythm that suits you best.
* Make It Your Own *
Vitamin-R plugs into your life rather than trying to take it over. You can use it occasionally to overcome procrastination or mental blocks or re-organize your entire working life around the concepts that it embodies.
* Syncs with Vitamin-R for Mac *
Vitamin-R for Mac has been the most comprehensive Time Boxing solution on the Mac for years and you can now seamlessly sync you time slices across devices.
* Attention Deficit Disorder *
Vitamin-R was never specifically designed with ADHD "suffers" in mind, but many ADHD-ers have found Vitamin-R's approach to focusing attention particularly valuable.
* Students *
Many students, especially at Medical School (who will also get the joke), use Vitamin-R to help them achieve their full potential.
Reviews
Rough user experience that comes with a steep price
ChilledWill
Functionally it’s a sound app. Does what it says and works. However, for $6 and as basic the screens are I’d like to see higher quality interface and more intuitive screens. It’s very clunky in its execution. I use and admire the desktop version, this app falls very short of a productive experience.
Very helpful for structuring time in front of all your screens
unslanted
I have used Vitamin-R on Mac and phone and have found all of its customization options very helpful for staying focused and taking breaks. One small improvement I’d like to see: I recently started using doing more work on an iPad with a Smart Keyboard. Because this has the iPad in landscape mode (triggering Vitamin-R’s data visualization mode), it requires awkwardly turning the iPad + keyboard on its side to work its controls and type in what I’m working on. Could the data viz mode be put in a tab or sidebar or split screen when an iPad is in landscape mode? Keep up the good work!
It's just a timer
anthony7921
The OS X version of this app is one of my favorites but this one is lacking a personally vital feature, the noise machine. And the ability to sync with the OS X version would be really nice. I bought this app thinking I'd get my aforementioned favorite feature for my iPhone, but nope. Furthermore, I'd like to suggest the ability to use Markdown.
love it except
Haptic_Tast
I don't mind that this won't sync with Omnifocus. I just mind that it will not sync with its desktop Vitamin R companion. It should be de rigeur for app store to have symcing between desktop and ios apps.
Buggy
synjck
Every time I open the app, it loses my current time slice and starts a new one! Frustrating.
Huh. Great app, but doesn’t sync.
karljamm
It’s a productivity timer with a buttload of brain research behind it. You can use it as a Pomodoro timer and keep things simple, or you can read into more techniques and objective defining if you want to learn new ways to make your work more efficient. I have ADHD and all of the things this app offers are great tools. Some tools you’ll love right away, some might not be your thing. You just use what you like. I had tried out the Mac app and loved it. However, even though the Mac app creates a Dropbox backup, the iOS Vitamin-R-2 does _not_ sync. Strange. Kind of lame for a $7 app as well.
Great tool, UI/UX needs to be more flexible
llamaswill
Not a todo list, a get it done tool. Like this a lot on mac. On iPhone UI is prettier but too linear. When I put a task on pause it does not mean I don't want to come back to it. Different user modes lock you in. Perhaps this time I just want to start a time slice and not finish filling out breadcrumbs or be forced to go through a 2 minute break timer. Syncs with vitamin-r on Mac for logs. Wish breadcrumbs and other note synced too.
Great design, viz, encourages productivity
derekvan
Really like the concept and execution of this app and its Mac companion. Encourages productivity and gives good visualizations for insight.
The syncing between this and the Mac app is very limited.
Johns.touch
I purchased this because it said it syncs with the Mac app. The Mac app syncs with Things and Reminders. When you go to start a new Pomodoro that is useful as you can select a Reminders task. This app doesn’t sync that data nor does it sync with Reminders. This means I have to go to my Mac and manually enter in the task on the iPhone. That makes this app useless as I could already do that with different Pomodoro apps I have.
Clever and thoughtful but a bit buggy
Shopping2
If you use the desktop app, this is a great companion. I do find that the app can be buggy. Occasionally, when I switch out of the app and I'm in the middle of a time slice, I lose the pause and end links and get hide keyboard and next instead. The only way I can fix the app is to kill and relaunch. Luckily, the time slice is preserved. A few times, I've also had syncing issues. I hope the developer keeps iterating. Ideally, I'd like see a white noise option instead of continuous ticking.
