I’ll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.
… And then I’ll put in my vote for Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)
Just a nice collection of quick, simple puzzles. A perfect time killer. It’s a staple that I’ve got on all the devices in my old 2000s PDA collection since it was also built for Windows Mobile and PalmOS.
I’ll have to try and remember where I found the Windows Mobile version of it. While there’s a humongous website for downloading PalmOS programs, I haven’t found one for Windows Mobile yet.
Anki might be worth your while if you are trying to learn something.
Load it up with a flashcard deck of something you want to remember, and it’ll show you those flashcards. Lots of people use it to learn languages, but it’s also good for anything that requires memorisation.
I love this app. It’s got like 3 dozen different games, all of which you can scale in difficulty, and works great offline. It is my go to bathroom diversion.
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I’ll be the old stodger voice and mention that taking 5 minutes from time to time to not be stimulated is good for mental health, and apparently creativity too.
… And then I’ll put in my vote for Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. (In F-droid as Puzzles, app by Chris Boyle)
Just a nice collection of quick, simple puzzles. A perfect time killer. It’s a staple that I’ve got on all the devices in my old 2000s PDA collection since it was also built for Windows Mobile and PalmOS.
It was WHAT? Time to dust off my HP Jornadas
I’ll have to try and remember where I found the Windows Mobile version of it. While there’s a humongous website for downloading PalmOS programs, I haven’t found one for Windows Mobile yet.
Antimine is great, and on fdroid.
Needs an undo button, I often get 1800 mines done and fat finger something.
Now a major motion picture
Duolingo. You can waste time and learn something. There are countless other apps that help you learn stuff.
Does Duolingo work offline?
https://blog.duolingo.com/how-to-travel-with-duolingo/#:~:text=Luckily%2C Duolingo Plus%2C our subscription,can keep your precious streak
Oh sweet! I didn’t know that. My precious 500 day streak is a little better protected thanks to you.
Well you’re gonna have to pay for it
I just started Super recently, so no problem there. Still upset they axed the comments, though. They were often helpful.
I find Duolingo far too parasocial. Their “come back to the lessons” mails and stuff really knocked me off.
Yeah you can just turn those off. I only get a reminder once a day, just on my phone, not via mail. And it’s a silent notification.
But my point was not to sell people on duolingo, my point was to sell people on doing something productive rather than play a silly game.
You can disable them in the settings iirc.
Yep, I also liked having the daily reminders because that’s when I’d go and do them
Endless Sky
I like walkmaster. Its a fun silly game with weird physics.
Deck’em and Strategery
If you like reading books, comics, etc, maybe Librera Reader?
Dunno how it is on Google Play, but it’s available FOSS and DRM free outside of it:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/
Lots of good, free, out-of-copyright books on gutenberg.org
You can read them on Librera or any ereader app
Also you can pirate from Anna’s Archive.
There are also a bunch of books from project Gutenberg that have images and nice formatting on standardebooks.org/
Tux cart Minetest
Anki might be worth your while if you are trying to learn something.
Load it up with a flashcard deck of something you want to remember, and it’ll show you those flashcards. Lots of people use it to learn languages, but it’s also good for anything that requires memorisation.
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You can download full crosswords on the NYT Games app!
Don’t you need a subscription to do any other than the daily?
Probably. A lot of libraries have access to the NYT, probably worth checking!
Crosswords by Redstone has hundreds of games and can run offline.
simon tatham’s puzzles.
I love this app. It’s got like 3 dozen different games, all of which you can scale in difficulty, and works great offline. It is my go to bathroom diversion.
fdroid 2048 - for my 1 minute elevator ride
Started a 6x6 game months ago and am still not done yet. It’s super repetitive but perfect to just reset your mind for a while every now and then
I little too specific but when I have spare time I use AnkiDroid to memorize kanji.
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