How to terrify yourself into not procrastinating

Desperate times (it’s 3 a.m. and you have to present that report at 9 a.m. and your page is Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” incarnate) call for desperate measures. Flowstate is a new app designed to get you into the writing zone essentially through fear: If you stop typing, your work vanishes. And while it gets your adrenalin going, it also stops you from overthinking, and eventually you just embrace the power of accepting whatever “flows” from your fingertips. (How do you think we wrote this entire magazine?) ($13.99, hailoverman.com/flowstate)