Screencapture of my Momentum page from 06/4/17
I recently discovered that many people use the Chrome application Momentum. It is basically a screensaver for your internet browser. I have been using for about a year, but I thought that it not at all popular. My sister forced me to download it, insisting it was useful and nice to have. However, I never really used it.
It was rather surprising when I saw that many of my friends used the application.
Momentum with a To Do List and a focus
What a focus looks like when one is set
Is suppose people enjoy the To Do List feature ( See image above). It seems super useful to be able to have a To Do List on the side of your screen as you are browsing the through other tabs. However, I literally never used it. I prefer my To Do Lists on paper.
Or maybe the focus feature which allows you to set a goal for the day.
But neither of those uses were appealing to me, so it acted as a pretty image that greets me on the internet.
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Oh yeah! I forget to mention that the images changes every day. Sometimes it is rolling hills and other days it is a dark forest. I see the image many times during the day, so I wonder if it affects my mood. For example, today’s image is drab and gives haunted mood due to the purple tones and fog. Would my day have felt a little happier if it had been a sunny image of the cows out to pasture? Just a question for fellow Momentum users to ponder.
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This all comes up because I am wondering why this product is popular. It has no appeal to me and I am not sure if my friends really use the functions either. I asked my roommate and she says she only uses the To Do List feature.
Whether or not we use it, it was still appealing to us at some point and we downloaded it so they have succeeded in selling their product to us. It is free but they still sold it to us in a way.
The Chrome Webstore ad for Momentum boasts that you can “Replace new tab page with a personal dashboard featuring to-do, weather, and inspiration”. It may seem useful and fun when phrased that way but it seemed useless once I downloaded it.
If you want to try for yourself here is the link to their ad. Will you be persuaded by it?