那些号称可以让你提高效率的App，其实省不了你多少时间

    并非所有人都精通技术，这意味着移动应用永远和“直观”扯不上边。奥唐奈尔表示：“我的妻子还是依赖纸质清单。”我问他“纸质清单”是个什么应用，他回答道：“不是什么应用，就是把事情记录在一张纸上。”人们买了智能手机后，往往会觉得：“既然用了智能手机，我就得下载应用，就得把它用在任何事情上。”其实并非如此。大概有22%的人下载了某一款应用后，就永远不会再打开它。只有大约一半的人会使用一款应用4次以上。

    最后，使用旨在节省时间的应用还有个最大的问题：我们很容易分心。戴维斯表示：“这并不全是应用本身的问题，而是它触发的行为所导致的。”你下载一款任务管理应用，本来是想把上面的项目一项项勾掉。但是一旦手里拿着手机，你就开始查看电子邮件，上Pinterest看照片，或是花45分钟看万圣节服装。不管节省了多少时间，都弥补不了这样的损失。

    戴维斯向她的客户推荐了两个策略。首先，“记录你的时间都去哪儿了”。你可能会发现，你在健身应用上比较你和你朋友的成绩花掉的那20分钟，还不如花在真正锻炼上。

    其次，你可以试着删除一些不重要的东西，然后看看你最需要把什么添加回来。戴维斯几乎删掉了所有应用，只重新添加了一款地图应用。有些客户也做了同样的选择，他们表示“获得了相当多的空间时间”。当你的手机变得不那么有意思了，你花在手机上的时间也就少了。如此一来，你就会觉得，你可以把所有时间花在这个真实的世界上。（财富中文网）

    译者：朴成奎

    Some people’s styles aren’t technical, which means an app will never be intuitive. “My wife swears by her paper list,” O’Donnell says. I asked which app this “PaperList” was, and he said, “No, I mean putting things on a piece of paper.” People get a smartphone and think “therefore I must have apps, therefore I must use them for everything,” but that’s not true. About 22% of people who download and use any given app once never use it again. Only about half of downloaders will use an app more than four times.

    Finally here’s the biggest issue with using apps to save time: we are easily distracted. “It’s not always the app itself,” Davies says. “It’s the behavior it triggers.” You go into your to-do list app with the best intentions of crossing something off. But with device in hand, you check email and get sucked into a crisis that doesn’t concern you. Or you pop over to Pinterest and spend the next 45 minutes looking at Halloween costumes. Whatever time saved is dwarfed by that loss.

    Davies recommends two strategies to her clients. First, “just log where all your time is going.” You might discover that the 20 minutes you spend comparing your stats to a friend’s on a fitness app could have been used to actually exercise.

    Second, you might try deleting everything that’s not essential. Then see what you choose to add back. Davies did this with everything but a map app. Clients who’ve made a similar choice “have reported the significant amounts of free time they have,” she says. When your phone is less interesting, you look at it less. And, overall, that can make you feel like you have all the time in the world.