A smartphone will help you work literally anywhere: riding the subway, waiting in line, walking down the street. Just turn on the audio or video – and you can access information from anywhere in the world, even if you don’t have the Internet at the moment.

Use educational apps

You can find many different services in application stores that will make your work easier.

• Duolingo It will help you learn the language. This service is one of the most popular services with millions of downloads on both platforms. The short lessons here are divided into groups by topic and difficulty level, and there is also an incentive system.
• PhotoMathematics – to study mathematics. This app is primarily used as an equation solving service, but its ability to explain the solution algorithm will help you not only get an easy answer, but also understand how to get it. PhotoMath uses a camera and optical character recognition technology to read user-typed equations.
• Ted. This application will give you access to thousands of videos featuring speeches of famous people, scientists, and experts from various fields. Sometimes it can be just interesting informative stories, sometimes it can be serious educational lessons. Most videos are in English but the creators provide subtitles.
• Han Academy. This educational app was initially focused on English lessons and works of various scientists, but later it was expanded and now you can find materials from school subjects such as chemistry, mathematics, history and others. In total, Khan Academy has collected more than 4,200 materials. Khan Academy has video lessons for all subjects learned in school. Materials have different levels of complexity. It is worth noting that the lessons are offered only in English, but the creators are working on translation into other world languages.
• YouTube. So this service, which we usually perceive only as a source of silly videos with challenges, movie reviews, interviews with celebrities or blogs about personal life, can almost become the largest source of information. YouTube has collected millions of videos in every possible language and on almost every topic. Many people use YouTube as a search engine more often than Google itself. Here you can find not only individual lessons, but also entire courses and video series on a particular topic.

Sign up for educational platforms

Since we’ve already mentioned Khan Academy, which is essentially a complete education platform, here are some options you’ll definitely need.

• Coursera: Online courses from the world’s leading universities.
• edX: A free online platform for massively open interactive courses, founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
• Udacity: A non-profit educational organization that originally focused on providing college-like courses, but now focuses more on professional courses for professionals.
• Ukrainian analogue of Prometheus: Offers online courses in a variety of areas and levels, including IT, languages, business, personal development, psychology, professional development, public service and more. There are both paid and free courses. Its advantage is the presence of an application that allows you to download Ukrainian translation and courses in advance and watch them later without the Internet.

Join online communities

One of the most useful things that smartphones provide us with is the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere. Find like-minded people on Reddit, Facebook or Twitter. There may also be special forums where people come together to examine certain topics.

Sharing experiences can sometimes give us more than expert lessons. In addition, this is an invaluable way to make new acquaintances in one field or another.

What else

It is worth remembering that the training process is not just about watching a training video once a week. It requires discipline, endurance and concentration. Therefore, applications that are not educational but will help you organize yourself better will come to your aid here.

• First of all, choose what you’re interested in: Choose topics and apps that align with your interests and goals, because that way you’re more likely to immerse yourself in the subject and enjoy it, rather than agonizing over a topic you’re interested in. not interested.
• Set a clear schedule: Set aside a specific time each day for personal development and stick to it. You can use special programs to limit the use of distracting third-party applications. For example, Family Link. This way, you won’t have to scroll through your Instagram feed when you need to catch up on a class.
• Be disciplined: Don’t give up if you don’t see results right away. Success never comes immediately.
• Use planners and notebooks to plan your day, organize reminders, remember deadlines, and more.