Working in a louder environment than your hush-hush office will get you more interesting ideas. But if you’re tied to your desk, maybe you can bring the creative environment to your headphones.

Mac: There are plenty of tools to help you focus with a little ambient sound, whether it's raindrops falling, the buzz of a coffee shop, or something else. Noizio is a little different because it ...

But you don’t even need to go into a coffee shop to reap the benefits: There are YouTube channels with uninterrupted hours of coffee shop sounds to help you focus while you work from home.

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There's Coffitivity, which plays an infinite loop of coffee-shop sounds — and Noisli, which suggests different sounds for different goals.

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Fewer distractions. It sounds counter-intuitive, but working from a bustling coffee shop can be less distracting than working from a quiet office.

There's Coffitivity, which plays an infinite loop of coffee-shop sounds — and Noisli, which suggests different sounds for different goals.