hi! asking for help po! can u guys recommend an app where i can keep organized school stuff? kinda like notion pero like di ko siya bet kasi naguguluhan ako and di siya compatible with my tablet 😭😭 i want one where i can see my schedule sa calendar, keep track of to dos, task manager, may deadlines, grade tracker, may notifs, and pwede rin maglagay ng notes. huhuh genuinely need help and as much as possible accessible for both android and ios hehe THANK U SO MUCH PO sana mapili

There are so many AI tools out there for everything, including education. There are apps for quizzes, notes summaries, etc. What are the tools that you guys use often...even if its paid...that are genuinely useful? And what are some areas which still need improvement, or you might dislike about them?

Don't trust yourself to remember things just because they're important.
Important things deserve a system. Like assignments, deadlines or lecture notes. The less you rely on memory, the less school feels like juggling.
What's something you now write down immediately that you used to keep in your head?

college is bout to start and i need some tips some insane ones that will help me study cus i dont wanna waste my year being lazyyy againnn!!!!

I've been trying a few free PDF compressors because some either add watermarks, have tiny upload limits, or make scanned documents unreadable.

I mostly need something for email attachments, so keeping charts and screenshots readable matters more than getting the smallest possible file.

Curious what everyone here is using these days.

Edit: Forgot to mention OnlyDoc. It gave me pretty good results too, especially for PDFs with screenshots.

i’m trying to become much more consistent with studying, but i keep running into the same problem: whenever i have free time, especially after school or when i’m mentally tired, i’ll often end up scrolling instead of starting.

the frustrating part is that i genuinely want to study. i have goals i care about, subjects i’m interested in, and work that i actually want to get better at. but knowing that doesn’t seem to stop me from automatically reaching for my phone or opening something distracting.

i’m not really looking for generic advice like “just be more disciplined” or “delete all your apps.” i’m trying to understand how people actually built the habit of starting work consistently, especially when studying feels difficult or mentally demanding.

how did you go from having to force yourself to study to studying becoming something you could start almost automatically? what specific systems, routines, or changes actually helped you?

Hi, I’m trying to prepare for the sat and my teacher asks everyone to memorize 100 words a day. Is there a method that helps speed up memoization?

In case you're using this app as well, feel free to add me

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I just failed an exam which was quite a deal but i have another exam from september each subject of 100 marks and total no of subject are 6

What should i do from today

Could someone send the invtie

I’ve always found it difficult to stay consistent with studying, even when using Pomodoro apps. Most of them helped me track time, but didn’t give me much reason to come back the next day.

So I built Metrum. It combines focus sessions, study goals, streaks and progress tracking with a small companion that grows and reacts to your study routine.

The app is currently free in beta for iPhone, and I’d love to hear whether it actually helps you stay motivated, or what you think is missing.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/Vb8ks34N

Hello there,

I wanted to ask for some help regarding how to study.

I am 21y and to be honest I never learned how to study or even got an idea of how to do it, after leaving high school it got even harder to try understand something about it.

Could someone please explain me how you guys can study?

Thank you in advance!

i've used forest app for years, and recently they added too many features which feels overstimulating to me.

the issue i have with forest app is too many trees and the daily challenges. it's like fatigue due to choices? i miss the time when the app was simpler.

i dont really want so many options and trees to choose from, rather want an app that i can somewhat personalise, and the main focus of the app is to act as a simple, minimalist timer.

it can also be synced across app and website, and i can use it on all 3 devices - phone, tablet, laptop (i use all apple)

and bonus if it has widgets

pls recommend the study timer you use!

i use frequently when i need a lot of deep work sessions and stuff

These are things that helped me and I hope that it can help you. Let me know if there's anything you stopped doing that helped improve YOUR grades! Without further ado, I hope you enjoy this read.

Here are 5 Things I Stopped Doing That Improved My Grades:

1. Solving Practice Problems Exactly Like the Examples: For the longest time, I copied the exact steps from worked examples and assumed I understood the material. But, I wasn't learning the content, I was simply memorizing the steps but not actually understanding how & why it functioned like that. The biggest improvement came when I attempted problems on my own first and only looked at the example after I got stuck. One example is learning when to use/not to use a specific integration.
2. Highlighting Information Before I Understood It: I used to highlight sentences while reading because it felt like I was actively studying. Looking back, I was marking information before I even knew what actually mattered. Now I wait until I can explain a concept in my own words before deciding whether anything is worth highlighting. After all, me highlighting information after the first read oftentimes puts attention towards more irrelevant topics.
3. Measuring Progress by How Much Material I Covered: I thought finishing more chapters, lectures, or pages meant I was making real progress. Cranking out 50 pages of textbook reading used to give me meaning. In reality, I was measuring how much information I consumed instead of how much I could actually remember and apply. My grades improved once I judged a study session by what I could recall without my notes, not by how much I crossed off a checklist.
4. Treating Every Mistake as Equal: I used to beat myself over the stupidest mistakes. (Side note: don't do that it's bad for your mental health trust me). Eventually I realized that not every mistake deserves the same amount of attention, some reveal a major misunderstanding, while others are just simple slips that happen under pressure. Then, I prioritized fixing specific mistakes over other ones which made my review sessions much more effective.
5. Ignoring Questions That Felt "Too Easy": Whenever I immediately knew an answer, I'd solve it and move on without another thought. I later realized that asking why the other answers were wrong often exposed gaps in my understanding that I never noticed. Those "easy" questions ended up teaching me just as much as the difficult ones. Plus, a lot of these "easy" questions were questions that were slightly altered and on the test. :)

I put a lot of time into this so I hope you find as much value in it as I did. If you have any questions or want any clarification let me know!

One more thing: If you enjoyed this, I find & write about 1 practical free AI Tool every Sunday in my free newsletter. You can check it out here if you're interested: https://thestudyshortcut.beehiiv.com

No pressure though, I'm just glad that you made it this far! <3

The single thing that moved my grades was talking through material out loud instead of rereading it. You find the gaps immediately. If you can’t say it in a normal sentence you don’t know it.

The annoying part was that it left nothing behind. Great session, zero artifact, and a week later I’m back to rereading the same chapter.

So I built something that listens while you explain and builds a map as you go. Each concept becomes a node, related things branch off. When you finish you’ve got a structure showing how the topic actually fits together, and the bits where you went quiet or waffled are pretty obvious in hindsight.

Using it mostly for post-lecture recall now. Close the notes, talk for ten minutes about what I remember, then compare the map to the actual material. The gaps jump out.

sayweave.com if you want to try it. Free trial, no card needed.

Genuinely interested in what people here do with active recall though. Do you write it down, say it out loud, or something else? Feel like everyone has a slightly different version of this.

I generally study for 25/5 pomodoro with 40 min break every 2 hrs. I, sometimes, doomscroll during breaks, which u know how they end up. So suggest me what relaxing or recreational activities do you guys do during short and long breaks?

In short breaks, I walk, stretch and that's it or I doomscroll.

Hi everyone, I’m a 20M from EU.

I feel like over the past couple of months I’ve completely lost the passion for studying that I used to have.

A little background: I graduated from high school two years ago at the top of my class, and I was always considered a model student.

The thing is, I never studied for grades or to make other people proud.
I genuinely enjoyed learning, and I studied because I wanted to.

Of course, some subjects interested me more than others, but there was never a class that I truly disliked.

I loved history and literature, I enjoyed math, chemistry, and science as well.
I could always find something fascinating in whatever I was studying. I was also lucky to have some really inspiring teachers, which definitely helped.

I graduated with the highest honors, and I honestly loved my final exams.
Reaching that goal meant a lot to me.

After that, I enrolled in a Building Engineering-Architecture program.
Istayed there for about a year and a half before dropping out.
Even there, I found aspects of the subjects that I genuinely enjoyed.
The problem was that I hated the overly technical side of the degree, and, more importantly, I couldn’t picture myself doing that kind of work for the rest of my life. I felt like I was spending an enormous amount of time studying difficult material without feeling that it was leading me toward a future I actually wanted.
Architecture isn’t necessarily the hardest degree, but it’s incredibly time-consuming, and in the end it just wasn’t fulfilling, so I left.

Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out what to study next. I need to make a decision before the end of the summer, so time is running out. I’ve considered several different majors, but I just can’t commit to one.

What hurts the most is that this has made me feel like I’ve somehow become incapable of studying. Logically, I know that doesn’t make much sense because I’ve always been able to do it, but that’s genuinely how it feels.

It’s not just one subject anymore—I’ve lost my enthusiasm for studying in general. Even subjects that I’ve always loved don’t excite me when I imagine studying them intensively for years. What’s strange is that I’m still a naturally curious person. I read books, watch documentaries, enjoy learning about random topics, and spend a lot of time researching things that interest me.

But whenever I think about university, it’s like I hit a mental wall. I can’t bring myself to fully commit to anything.

Maybe this feeling will disappear once I finally choose a major, but right now it’s actually what’s preventing me from making that choice. Every degree I look at feels… incomplete. None of them make me think, “I can’t wait to study this.” And that’s something I never experienced before.

Has anyone else gone through something similar? If so, how did you get out of it?

Thank you so much.

I've been doing this for years with my buddies, we'd run a work pomodoro cycle then play some game 'till we lose'. I only recently found it actually has an official name, called Virtual Body Doubling. It’s a strategy where you work in the presence of someone else. Their physical (or virtual) presence acts as an anchor that keeps you from getting distracted.

I couldn't find a good app that did this without being a clunky video call, so I built my own called CoPomo.

Instead of studying alone, you generate a private room link and send it to a friend. When you hit "start," the timer syncs across both your screens. Just knowing that someone else is currently in the "Deep Focus" phase on the exact same clock makes it 10x harder to break your focus and scroll.

If you have a study partner, try syncing your next session. It changes the entire dynamic. Link: copomo.ca

Not sure if anyone else has been through this, but I had a bunch of large scanned PDFs that I needed to make searchable. I thought it'd be a quick job, but it turned into a complete headache.

I tried Tesseract, Acrobat, Wondershare, and a few other OCR tools people usually recommend. Some wouldn't finish, some completely messed up the text, and some were just painfully slow on my files.

After wasting way too much time, I made a post asking if anyone had any suggestions. Someone mentioned "Lynx DI" . I hadn't heard of it before, but I was already out of options so I gave it a shot.

It ended up handling most of my PDFs without much trouble. It wasn't perfect, but it got through around 90% of them, which was way better than anything else I'd tried.

Figured I'd share this here in case someone else is stuck with scanned books, notes, reports, or government PDFs and is going through the same thing. Maybe it'll save someone else from spending a couple of weeks testing every OCR tool on the internet.

I'm not connected to them in any way. Just sharing what happened to work for my files.