So last Tuesday I finally installed Adonia after my buddy kept nagging me about it. Honestly, I was pretty skeptical – another app promising to fix my life? Yeah right. But man, was I wrong. Here’s exactly how it went down, step by step.
The Annoying Starting Point
My mornings used to be pure chaos. Forget Zen. Alarm goes off, I’d scramble to check weather apps, my calendar, news sites – flipping through like 5 different things just to figure out if I needed an umbrella or if my 9 AM got canceled. Total time suck. Coffee would get cold while I searched for meeting links buried in email chains.
How I Tested This Adonia Thing
Decided to give it a real shot for one week. Opened the app store, typed Adonia, hit install. First thing it asked: connect my accounts. Yeah, I hesitated. Giving this new app access to my calendar, email? Felt sketchy. Did it anyway, holding my breath. Then bam – it asked me to pick my priorities. I checked boxes for weather, schedule, and news headlines.
Next morning, grabbed my phone ready for the usual scramble. Instead, this single screen appeared:
- Morning Dashboard: Big bold text showing 68° and sunny, my first meeting zoom link right there, and the top 3 news bulletins.
No app hopping. Didn’t even unlock my phone fully – just tapped the screen awake and boom, all the info. Felt like cheating. I actually drank hot coffee for once.
The Real Game Changer
Thought that was cool, then stumbled into the Focus Blocks by accident later that day. I was trying to write this blog post, kept getting distracted by Slack pings every 2 minutes. Saw the timer icon, shrugged and set it for 45 minutes. Thing turned my phone grayscale and muted all non-emergency alerts. The silence was glorious. Wrote half the post uninterrupted. Been using it daily since – even told my boss to send carrier pigeons if it’s urgent during my blocks.
What Stuck After Two Months
Look, I ditch apps like old socks. But Adonia? Still using it. Here’s why:
- Dashboard is life: Seriously, that single-screen morning snapshot saves me 15 minutes of stupid phone-swiping every single day.
- Focus actually works: Like yelling at coworkers without the awkwardness. Phone goes zen, I get work done.
- Sneaky tracking: Found this Time Tracker buried in settings later. Shows me exactly where my time vanishes. Spoiler: way too much on cat videos.
Did I have issues? Sure. That first dashboard setup took a few tries – I skipped the tutorial like an idiot and had to redo it. And sometimes the news headlines are… weirdly specific. But overall? Damn thing actually works. Don’t need every bell and whistle, just the stuff that saves my scrambled brain daily.
