Productive Way to Use Digital Time

The modern digital world often forces people to passively consume content, and the best (or even the worst) example of this is endless scrolling on social media.

This doesn’t require active brain work, because a person simply perceives information without thinking about it properly and does not help people learn new skills and does not provide clear advantages for the future, often causing them fatigue.

Instead of wasting time aimlessly flipping pages on the screen, there are many good ways to change this activity.

For example, people may focus on learning a new language, taking structured online courses, or reading e-books on a specific subject — involving the brain, contributing to the expansion of knowledge and personal growth.

By choosing apps with a specific purpose, for example, for collecting things, caring for plants, or keeping people safe as you turn screen time into a tool for achieving real results.

Coin ID Scanner

The coin identifier app’s main function is finding and naming coins quickly and correctly → a user can take a photo of a coin or upload a picture from the phone's gallery.

               

Analysing the photo, the app names the coin and gives full information about it.

This information includes technical details, history, and the current market price, helping people manage their real collection well, creating a digital copy of it.

The app’s whole database includes more than 187,000 coins from all parts of the world, making the identification very precise.

Key Features

• Recognising the coin from a picture taken in the app or one loaded from the gallery

• Providing detailed facts about the coin, including the years it was made, the country, the type, the edge description, the metal parts, the size, the weight, and the price

• Allowing users to add coins to a digital collection for keeping track and putting them in order

• Giving access to a big database (more than 187,000 coins), also having manual search, search by coin ID, and smart filters in the paid version

• Having a virtual assistant using artificial intelligence for answering questions about coins

AI Plant Finder

The plant ID from photo app's main task is identifying plants and checking their health. To name a plant, the user only needs to take its photo.

               

The identifier app will find the species and give information about caring for it and can find plant diseases.

The user photographs the problem area, with the app looking at the picture and offering information about the reasons, treatment plan, and ways to prevent the sickness.

For organized care, there is the "My Garden Tool", letting users list their plants and setting different reminders for watering, cutting, adding food, and turning the plants.

Key Features

• Finding the type of plant from a picture

• Recognising plant problems from a photo, giving the reasons, treatment, and ways to stop it

• Giving access to a large database, including over 300,000 plant species, having manual search and search by plant ID

• Keeping a list of plants and setting separate reminders for watering, cutting, feeding, and turning them

• Having tools for counting the needed amount of water based on facts about the plant, pot, warmth, and moisture and finding the current light level in lux

Number Tracker

The cell phone number tracker works for making sure people are safe and for helping family members, friends, or workmates coordinate their movements.

               

The main part of the app is the "Circles Creation" feature, where the user adds people. Inside a circle, every person can see where the others are right now.

The app also helps people find lost devices: a device added as a favorite can be found, using the signal strength information to find its exact location.

The "Movement History" feature allows users to see where circle members were in the past, helping with safety checks.

Key Features

• Making closed groups for following locations

• Showing the location of circle members

• Allowing people to add a device as a favorite and using the signal strength to find its exact location

• A function letting the user mark their current spot on the map for all circle members to see

• Marking important addresses on the map

• Seeing facts about where circle members were before

• Having a virtual assistant using artificial intelligence for help with the app

Conclusion

Conscious use of mobile apps with a specific useful purpose is a better way to use technology than passive scrolling. 

Passive browsing of social networks often does not bring obvious positive results and weakens attention, while digital technology hobbies turn time spent on the screen into real help and the development of certain skills. 

These methods include: active use of educational apps, such as apps for learning foreign languages; taking online courses, structuring the learning process; reading digital books with a clear purpose related to work or personal interests, as well as keeping digital diaries or collections that require good organization and data entry.

Thus, digital hobbies help to develop specific knowledge, organizational skills and create value, unlike aimless scrolling of pages, which does not give a good measurable result.