Travelling can be physically and mentally taxing, especially for anxious and frequent travellers. Here are some mobile apps that will help ease your mind. (Left image by @wiseaccount, Right image by @notionhq)
Travelling, whether it’s for work or leisure, can oftentimes feel like a mental workout. The planning, packing, and researching gets overwhelming even for the veteran traveller. So, we’ve gathered a few apps that will help ease your mind when you travel. From keeping your travel documents in check to helping you stay calm, these apps will change the way you look after your mind when you travel.
1. Notion
We’re starting the list with one of our favourites: Notion—the perfect catch-all app for organising life. Take notes, set goals, create projects, plan, budget, and more using this productivity app. With Notion, there are many ways to personalise, customise, and organise data, as well as collaborate with others. Hello, group trips! Use premade templates or create your own workflow as you plan your next trip.
2. Headspace
Take time to keep your mental health in check when you’re travelling. Headspace is an evidence-based meditation and mindfulness app that helps support your mental health through coaching, therapy, psychiatry services, guided sleep meditations, and mindfulness exercises. It is the perfect pocketable solution for managing your mind, stress, and anxiety on the go. The app works well for anyone, including beginners, in mental health care.
3. Timeshifter
Need a little help getting your sleep schedule right when in a different time zone? Timeshifter helps you adjust and sort the jet lag with easy tips and charts that track your progress. The app creates personalised plans based on your lifestyle and work schedule, helping you regulate your circadian rhythm and encourage optimal sleep, alertness, and overall health.Timeshifter is the modern-day solution to managing jet lag, making long-distance travel much more manageable. Better sleep means improved mood and longer days enjoying your time abroad.
4. Wise
Wise is an international money transfer app with low-cost transfers and no hidden fees.Keep track of your spending, receive funds, check exchange rates, and manage your money in 160 countries and 40 currencies in a single app. Order your Wise debit card to use internationally or use the digital card on the app. The app is free and generally much safer to travel with.
5. Step: Your World
Not sure what’s good in a new place? Step is an app created by content makers who are here to show you the best places to eat and things to see and do. A step up from the typical tourist recommendations, the app fashions itself as the social media platform for travel and culture lovers. Discover new places from curated recommendations and share your owntravel experiences for your friends and family to follow. Stay up to date with what’s new while you’re travelling, keeping away from the general noise and comments of other social media platforms.
6. Mymind
Imagine having a mood board that reads your mind? Mymind is an ad and pop-up-free visual bookmarking app that allows you to organise your thoughts with the help of AI. Just save your to-do lists, notes, pictures, recipes, films, music, articles, PDF files, and anything else that might be on your mind on the app and allow artificial intelligence to do the rest.
With Mymind, you can create a travel board to make your trip a little easier to visualise and prioritise things that need to be done in a fun way—no boring to-do lists here. It’s your personal search engine and you get to decide to generate searches by colour, keyword, brand, date, and more. It is a great app for visual thinkers with fragmented thoughts.
7. Calm
Sleep easy when you’re in a new place and a different bed with Calm, a mental health app.The app is designed to help you sleep better, manage stress and anxiety, and live a healthier lifestyle. With over 500 Sleep Stories, soundscapes, and guided sleep meditations,you will find it helpful on long-duration flights, layovers, and while travelling abroad.
Use the daily mindfulness exercises, quick meditations, and relaxation and breath exercises to calm your anxious thoughts and manage stressful and overwhelming days. Whether you’re an anxious traveller or not, we could all benefit from slowing down for a few moments a day to be still, breathe, and meditate.
