🎧 Music for productivity

I always have my headphones on while I am working.

And the best part is that I can switch based on my mood/work.

Here are the ones that I have curated for you.

Feel free to add to the list.

1/ Brain.fm

Music for the 🧠 as they like to call it.

This one's paid but IMO well worth the money. There's research to back me up. Works well when I need to dive deep into a problem.

Brain.fm: Music to improve focus, meditation & sleep.

2/ Spotify

Now that Spotify is here in India, I am really happy that I can listen to playlists like the one below.

Also love that I can use default music player controls on my keyboard ⏭

• Deep Focus 💯
• The Social Network Soundtrack
• All-Nighter Spotify playlist
• Pure Focus playlist
• This is Nils Frahm
• Lo-Fi Beats
• Lowkey Tech
• Paris Cafe Jazz
• House is a Feeling
• Brain Food
• lofi hip hop music - beats to relax/study to (Samir)
• The Confluence: Santoor & Piano (Samir)
• Deep India - Deep Forest & Rahul Sharma (Samir)
• Songs to test the headphones with (Tejas)
• Programming playlist (Tejas)

3/ Youtube

It has much more options than Spotify but I inadvertently tend to consume videos which are not that productive 😅

• ColdFusion Mixtape! - Perfect for Study/Work 💯
• lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to (Samir)
• Jazz - Fkj Live at La Fée Electricité, Paris (Divyendu)
• Saturn by Sleeping at Last
• Passages by Philip Glass + Ravi Shankar
• Canto Ostinato by Simeon Ten Holt
• Don Quixote - Tchaikovsky
• Jason Lewis - Mind Amend (Example 1, Example 2) 💯

Btw did you know there was a desktop app for Youtube 🤔

4/ Apple Music

For everybody who ❤️ all things Apple!

• WWDC 20 Coding Energy
• WWDC 20 Coding Focus
• Work + Ambient
• Pure Focus
• Pure Ambient
• Study Beats
• Acoustic Hits

5/ Other notable mentions

📻 RadioTunes

• 🏖 https://radiotunes.com/chillntropicalhouse
• ⛅️ https://www.radiotunes.com/dreamscapes

☕️ Cafe ambience

🗣️ Custom Background Noise

🔂 Listen to one song on repeat. It sounds crazy but many people do swear by it.

💌 Flowstate newsletter on Substack

🗞️ Organized Noise - Daily house/techno playlist on Substack

💪 Focus@Will