Published on 12, July, 2020
Brain in Hand has been recommended for my Disabled Students' Allowance. I'm a mature student who has anxiety when external pressures and academic pressures coincide. I then feel overwhelmed and have trouble concentrating. (I also have ADHD). I have used other apps (e.g., Stop, or Headnut (I think that was its name. It was Australian.) When stressed I rarely want to consult such apps, however, as I am too preoccupied with the stress! Brain in Hand appears to have the option of contacting a human rather than a Chatbot. It seems a good idea. Has anyone used it? It would be interesting to hear what others think.
I use brain in hand!!!!!! I love it!
I love it personally, for a variety of reasons, let me list them below, and share my experiences where I have used them practically:
Part of brain in hand is organisation, so you make a calendar ( you can connect an existing google calendar) and the individual events get tasks and problems put under them. And you can put in problems connected to a task.
So for example, for a teams call I have various problems like 'internet out', 'unable to join call', forget call'. And then within those problems I put solutions. So under 'forget about call' is 'send apology email', 'ask to reschedule', 'ask for recording'. And then what that mainly means is A. I get reminders about tasks, and B. when something goes wrong, I don't have to panic about what to do, because it's already there.
So, when have I used this feature. Well, missing meetings for a start. Also a big one was train journeys. I find train journeys immensly difficult. They're sensorily overwhelming and then they go wrong. In this particular case one of my trains had been cancelled. I was already on the verge of a shutdown. It was very bad. But in my brain in hand app the pre made travel section has a solution which has the link to the national network website, where I could instantly find another train. It saved a meltdown, end of story. Because I didn't have to think.
And then there are those moments where the preprepared stuff doesn't work out, and you have to ask for help. I've used that twice I think. Once was about a phone call where I just couldn't, and they walked me through other options so I didn't have to do it right then and could wait until I had someone around to help me in person. The other was a moment where everything had gone wrong, and they helped me break it down until I could find a solution.
You also get someone that walks you through using it to it's upmost and also helps you make goals and stuff and plans to work towards them that you have appointments with a few times a year.
Feel free to ask questions about brain in hand, I use it every day and find it often makes a real difference
Thanks very much for your feedback. I've decided to order the app and will report back when I've had time to try it out.