With exam season just around the corner, thousands of young people are currently knee deep in revision, whether for A-levels, GCSEs or end of years. Now let’s be honest, no one wakes up in the morning buzzing for the physics paper or french flashcards that await them downstairs. It is hard to find the motivation to do something so completely soul-sucking and draining when the distraction of tiktok or friends is such an alluring alternative. For me that’s where Flora comes into play. 

Flora is an app you can install onto your phone that will revolutionise your revision. You simply set a focus duration time, hit start and grow a tree. If you exit the app at any point, your tree will die, and you will have to restart your focus session. The more revision you do the more trees you can unlock until your garden is blooming with exotic plants from all over the world. You can also follow friends and complete revision sessions together to grow double the number of trees and motivate each other to stay focussed. To improve your organisation and time-management skills, set to-dos and track your weekly and monthly statics. And get this, if you are willing to pay a small amount of money, your revision will plant real trees as the app is in partnership with Trees for the Future and Eden Reforestation Projects. Currently over 105,638 trees have been grown by Flora users. Your hard work can have real positive effects on the environment, how cool is that!?

It may sound trivial, growing trees, but I can vouch for the fact that this app is oddly effective and almost addictive. If I have my Flora running, I am kept accountable to my revision and get a pleasing dopamine hit each time I grow a new tree. When I see the sessions of revision stack up in my weekly hours, i feel proud of myself for the progress I have made and panic less about whether I am revising enough. 

So, if you are a student who struggles motivating themselves to revise, aka almost everyone, why not give Flora a go? Whether you spend hours doing a past paper or 5 minutes reviewing your flashcards, Flora makes every minute count and who knows maybe it will be the difference between a pass or a fail?