DigiMonk (Digital Monk)

The app boasts several features like: 1. Internet Weighing Scale: That helps the user to objectively assess their pros and cons of using the internet. Provides an insight to the current usage. 2. Daily goal setting: A daily feature that is aimed at objectively and subjectively mentioning three goals that the user sets to achieve within 24-hours and how the user will achieve them. These are time-bound goals that the user must achieve. 3. Develop Self-esteem: Helps the user in identifying one’s own strengths, values and create affirmations for themselves. 4. Gratitude Journaling: This task helps the user to overcome their mind’s tendency to focus on negative experiences (fundamental negative bias) by writing at least three good things that happened to them each day. It helps the user in focusing on the positives that happened with oneself. 5. Identify triggers: A simple yet effective task that asks users (out of a pre-made list) that urged them to start using the internet. Based on the user’s selection, the user is redirected to the relevant infographic, providing them with psychoeducation on how to handle such situations. 6. Practice Mindfulness: Mindfulness is one of the most researched therapeutic ways of helping individuals be in the here-and-now. DigiMonk has three audios (in English and Hindi) that help users in guided imagery and mindfulness and relaxes them. 7. Practice existing skills: Half-baked knowledge is worse than having no knowledge. The user is given the option of redoing all the tasks that have been unlocked till now. The idea is to make the user recapitulate and internalize the learnings till now. 8. Sorting your thoughts: The user is shown situational statements (10 statements in 1 list; total 4 lists), and the user is expected to categorise them based either being “Helpful” or “Unhelpful”. Reasons and rationalizations are provided for each statement even if the user chooses the correct or incorrect answer. The idea is to address negative automatic thoughts that are very common. The user can identify and label them. 9. Creating healthy thoughts: There are total 6 lists of pre-made situational statements, with 3 lists dealing with internet use and other 3 lists dealing with behavioural patterns. A base statement is given for each of the three lists. The user is expected to select thoughts (out of the 10 in each list) that immediately comes to their mind or attention after reading the base statement. This exercise helps in identifying immediate automatic thoughts, provides psychoeducation regarding the cognitive distortions and helps the user in identifying a pattern of thinking. Selected thoughts are stored at the backend. 10. Practising healthy thoughts: Alternative thoughts are provided to the user that he/she has selected in the previous level. This activity is a continuation of the previous level. Providing only psychoeducation without alternative methods/skills/thought patterns/ perspectives is not helpful, hence the activity is aimed at providing the same. 11. App restriction: A daily feature that helps the user in restricting the maximum used applications to be more digitally mindful and to be conscious of their digital footprints.