INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The buzz or chime of a push notification on your phone is, at best, a distraction, and at worst, a source of stress and anxiety
A new app called Aloe Bud wants to make those push notifications into something more welcome: gentle reminders to take care of yourself and
With its configurable reminders, Aloe Bud will encourage you to take a break, drink water, move your body, rest, breathe, and more.The app
of modern-day life by carving out time for themselves to mediate, relax, and practice other mindfulness techniques
where you have to give your name, email or phone number
You can choose to use Aloe Bud without reminders by just checking in to those activities, if you prefer, and you can use it for journaling,
and community Femsplain, and working on the digital organizing team for the Hillary for America campaign.When the election was over, Discko
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Aloe Bud was born of these frustrations, but originally as an online
community where people could check in with their self-care routines
However, there was growing demand to turn the self-care system into an app
designer Tin Kadoic, and pixel art icon designer Katie Belton.The app went up on the Apple App Store this week, and was pre-ordered by 1,000
By day one, it had already gained 5,000 downloads.Aloe Bud is deceptively simple
A lot of care and research actually went into its making, as it turns out.Discko worked with a mental health researcher to help craft the
app, and referenced other research in the space, as well
toxic push notifications and it was really destroying my sanity for a while
