Radio Taiwan International
Date: 05 August, 2019
By: Leslie Liao
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Taiwan-made app Forest helps users regulate their productivity
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How many times has this happened to you… you pick up your smartphone to return a text, and then half an hour later you find yourself on a Wikipedia page for cheese puffs? These days, smartphones can be a black hole for concentration.
But Taiwan might have the solution to your problem. Forest is an app that helps users focus. It’s created by a Taiwanese startup, and has proven wildly popular not just in Taiwan, but around the world. [FULL STORY]