In no particular order:

• Google maps

• Noice (background noise generator)

• Pleco (look up Chinese characters by drawing them or OCR)

• The NextCloud App (to sync data to my selfhosted NextCloud)

• Notification Log (from FDroid). In most messengers, when someone deletes a message, the push-notification is taken out of the message queue ... but if you have a third party app that logs it, you can still see it. Has come in really useful once.

Do you keep a daily schedule for yourself?

My day is split into segments, I assign one significant task I want to advance to a segment. In normal times, my lengthy commute forces me to tie my day to a train schedule, with lunch as a divider for my time at uni. Now, in pandemic times, sunrise, lunch and sunset split my day.

Yes, I've read How to read a Book as supplementary material in my humanities requirement, probably the single best aspect of the humanities requirement.

Regarding book reviews, how is that going?

I'm working on two things in parallel.

• A systematic, comparative review of the last 6 Sci-Fi books I've recently read (I've been on a binge). My focus here is to contrast the old Hugo/Nebula type of classics vs more recent Sci-Fi bestsellers.

• Pop-Sci books that I found notable (not necessarily for their quality). Here, my my review effort is more of a "peer review" or attempt to square it with actual literature. The book I'm currently reviewing in that section is "How to sleep". Keeping a good sleep schedule is important, but not important enough to justify a poorly researched pop-sci book (I'm not the first to notice how bad this book is).

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Thanks for making one of the first serious contributions to this sub!