What sounds help you focus?
Finding a quiet place to work is harder these days, and one alternative is to generate sounds you find less distracting than the ambient ones.
For that purpose, a site I've discovered recently, Noisli.com, is useful and it features some attractive extra functions. The desktop version is free, the Web app/iOS app costs $1.99.
The sounds available:
- Steady rain
- Thunderstorm
- Wind
- Birds singing
- Leaves rustling in the wind
- River
- Ocean
- Water gently swishing
- Crackling fire
- Crickets
- Busy coffee shop
- Train (my favourite)
- Airplane engine
- White noise (three different ones)
You can also combine sounds, share your combinations with others, set a timer, and even have access to a distraction-free text editor (plain text or Markdown syntax). The latter will save your material locally and you can export it as well. The background colours change gradually but you can turn that feature off.
