Owaves: My BodyClock

I keep coming back to this app as my planning app because it just makes sense visually when planning my day and the UI feels intuitive as well. It’s pleasant to look at and provides great ideas on seasonal habits as well! However, I spend double the amount of time planning trying to work around bugs in adjusting the length of time for activities using the hold and drag method. When I move an activity or adjust a time with this method, it will leave a duplicate or a shadow duplicate where it was. Then when I go to delete it, it bugs out and the whole circle is filled with that thing I just deleted. Then I typically close the app completely, reopen it and it’s fine again…. Until it happens again in about 45 seconds.. Rinse and repeat 🤦‍♀️ Hopefully this bug can be addressed in the next patch because this is really time consuming to have to fix and kind of defeats the purpose of an app that’s meant to help you save and structure your time, especially when people need to be able to make quick changes on the fly to adjust to the unpredictable nature of daily life. Update: Developer responded within a few days that they were working on it, and then a few days later, they patched it and all is well! Enjoying being able to edit without all the bugs from before! Now I love the concept and the execution! Thank you, OWaves team!!

I’ve experimented with various apps over the past two years since finding out about my ADHD. While many apps are fantastic, none of them stuck. This app was exactly what I was looking for. I’m very visual and object-oriented, so the clock style layout of each day blew my mind. I have ADHD. This app is phenomenal for building routines and habits, and I’ve found having the Owaves widget (specifically the progress bar) has helped me better understand my time limitations for each activity. Try to time yourself doing an activity, so you know exactly how much time to allocate for your schedule. Be honest with yourself! It’s transformed my time management abilities. The customization is simple and easy to use, but the ability to include custom images for each activity was a game changer for me. When you assign a custom image to an activity, it will display in the center of your clock for the entire activity. So if you include a picture of the activity being performed (i.e. someone solving a math problem if the activity is “Study for Math Exam”), it’s easier to visualize yourself completing that task. I found some really pretty art that I assigned to studying, exercising, reading, etc., so you can make your clock look quite engaging.

After spending about 45 minutes adding my own custom photos and icons, when I clicked on a different day choice, then came back to the main one I had been customizing, all of my customized settings were gone. My schedule remained the same, and some of the icons I had changed remained in the right side circle choices, but the big circle had lost all of my custom photos and the custom icons I had change them to just moments before. It has been working great until I went to the bottom and clicked on alternate days I only have three days saved so I know I am not on the wrong day. I realize this is a new app but this was very frustrating as I spent quite a bit of time customizing this. I think once you get the bugs out of this this will be a very interesting planner especially for people with a DHD or very visual people. I wish you would make it available on IMAX and laptops also so they could sync up with your phone. It is always easier to set things up on a laptop or computer. I tried changing one of the icons again and it saved and looked great then when I went to the bottom of the screen hit the plus button and chose one of the other two days then went back to the same day I had justCustomized, my customized icon again was gone so this must be a bug. Please keep working on this I think you are onto something great I had actually invented in my own mind then saw a video that was telling about the app.