It’s been just over a month since I got an Apple Watch and I don’t know how I lived before it came into my life.
Initially, the features that got my attention related to activity tracking. It’s mind-blowing just how much physiological data a mainstream watch can calculate from the information it obtains from your wrist. I’ve also enjoyed using the watch to shuffle through my music playlists, to open messages and of course to check the time (globally while I was away and in between timezones).
Features I don’t see myself using are the camera and maps. They’re still phone functions for me.
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But the slow burn, surprise hit feature of my Apple Watch has been the Breathe app. I’m a human joke, I know, to be dependent on my watch to tell me how to breathe but it is what it is. Breathe forces me to step away for a minute to regroup and recharge. That minute of regulated inhalations and exhalations are more invigorating than that second mug of coffee or bar of chocolate. Plus it takes less effort than trying to get either.
I’ve ironically discovered the power of the breath via a fancy watch. How twenty nineteen.
Do you have a smart watch? What’s your favourite feature of it?