{"id":59,"date":"2017-02-14T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/?p=59"},"modified":"2017-02-20T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T15:06:35","slug":"just-like-being-in-the-coffee-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/2017\/02\/14\/just-like-being-in-the-coffee-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Just like being in the coffee shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/rdzmuagylko-jordan-sanchez-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/rdzmuagylko-jordan-sanchez-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/rdzmuagylko-jordan-sanchez-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/rdzmuagylko-jordan-sanchez-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/files\/2017\/02\/rdzmuagylko-jordan-sanchez-1200x797.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Coffitivity is a very unique website that I found looking for tools to help me boost my productivity, mostly because my brain is very active at night but I find it hard to focus during the first couple of hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>It is a website with a playlist of various seemingly never-ending coffee shop background noises. It&#8217;s supposed to help you concentrate better and hence, give your productivity a boost. They have 3 free clips that are pretty standard and quite similar from each other, but they also have a couple of premium offers if you fancy mind-transporting yourself all the way to Brazil, Paris or Texas.<\/p>\n<p>I am actually trying it as I write this little review and although I find the premise a bit odd, I think it&#8217;s safe to say it&#8217;s actually helping!\u00a0No more getting distracted by people passing by or overhearing random words from someone else&#8217;s conversations. It feels almost a bit magical&#8230; even if\u00a0I still\u00a0find it quite weird.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I thought I would share &#8217;cause some of you might be into that! (I certainly know that\u00a0Steve Bowden, our Rise Up Business Adviser will love this, as he <del>craves<\/del> likes working from coffee shops in town from time to time)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to feel as if you were in a coffee shop, make yourself a cuppa of your best instant coffee, put on your headphones and head here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coffitivity.com\/\">https:\/\/coffitivity.com\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Alternatively, you could also just go to an actual coffee shop. Whatever works better for you.)<\/p>\n<p>Cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffitivity is a very unique website that I found looking for tools to help me boost my productivity, mostly because my brain is very active at night but I find it hard to focus during the first couple of hours of the morning. It is a website with a playlist of various seemingly never-ending coffee &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/2017\/02\/14\/just-like-being-in-the-coffee-shop\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just like being in the coffee shop&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6545,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[47,8,44,46,48],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-creativity","tag-creativity","tag-free","tag-online","tag-productivity","tag-quirky","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6545"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/greteldixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}