You can use Noisli as a stress-reliever whenever you want. Stress eats up a lot of energy, while too much of it can result in mental illnesses such as anxiety, depression, and personality disorders.
Stress can also make one sluggish, leading to decreased productivity at work and excessive thinking during sleep. Noisli has created a suite of mix n match sounds that can help you relax and stay focused. Let's check them out:
Towards Lesser Stress
Noisli has 28 sound effects that you can adjust to make your music. You can then play this 'music' while working, relaxing, sleeping, or studying. It is nothing like a digital jamming console, so don't worry about learning another skill.
The sound effects will be mixed by altering their volume, so there is nothing complicated. If you don't feel like doing it yourself, you can always choose from different playlists. Noisli specially curates these playlists.
These playlists contain the same sound effects; their customizations are different. You can even customize a pre-made playlist if you feel like it.
How to Use Noisli?
Noisli can be accessed online from your browser:
- Go to the Noisli website.
- The Noisli homepage appears. Click the Sign-Up option on your upper right-hand side.
- You can sign-up from your Google account or create a new ID and password.
- Once you have completed the Sign-Up, it will automatically redirect to the playlist page.
On the playlist page, you will see a 25-minute timer at the top. It is the length of a playlist. You can pause this from the option beside it. It is because the folks at Noisli believe it takes you 25 minutes to be focused again, once after you've been disturbed.
An Overview of Its Features
The free sound effects include rain, the rustling of leaves, wind, lightning, forest, water stream, seaside, water drops, summer night, coffee shop, train, fire, fan, white noise, pink noise, and brown noise.
The premium sound effects are airplanes, bubbles, waterfall, tropical forest, cicadas, cityscape, fireplace, ocean waves, rain on a tent, space engine, washing machine, and underwater.
The Playlists included with the free version are:
- Productivity: Combines sounds like rain, water stream, and brown noise. It may help to soothe stress and work without taking a load.
- Random: Water stream, water drops, and a seaside ambiance to do your daily chores peacefully.
- Relax: A fan, a Bonfire, and a summer night to take a break from work.
The other playlists include: 'Motivation' to get away from boredom, 'Noise Blocker' to focus on work, 'Sleep' to doze off without overthinking, 'Studying' to increase your focus and sitting-time.
You can choose 'Writing' to write all day and be productive, 'Creative Thinking' to get your creative juices flowing, and 'Beautiful Ambients' to relax after a long day of work. These playlists are available with the premium version.
You can change or curate your playlists by adding new sounds or changing the volumes. To make your playlist:
- Set the sound effects.
- Go to the Favorites option on your upper-left side.
- Click on Save Combo.
Noisli also comes with a text editor to write in a minimal environment. The text editor supports Markdown syntax, which is a simple way to add formatting to your plain text.
Apart from this, the UI screen changes color regularly. It relieves the eyes from strain due to sharp colors.
Be More Productive With Noisli
You can download Noisli for Android and iOS from the Google Play Store or App Store, respectively. You can also download the Chrome extension. The premium version of Noisli is $10 for a single user and $24 for teams.
Stress interferes with your work-life balance. Noisli helps in being calm and improves your clarity of thought. A lot of research exists merging music and productivity. You can read some of it to advance your efforts in this area.