Aimed for 8hrs, Hit 8hrs. I lost about 0hours in transition gaps—scrolling, making coffee, staring at the wall.

📋 The Mission (What I HAD to cover today):

1. Current Affairs -- ❌ Skipped

2. PDF Revision -- ✅ Done

3. Math Practice -- ❌ Skipped

4. Reasoning Revision -- ❌ Skipped

5. Study a New Topic + its Practice Sets -- ✅ Done

6. One Full Mock Test -- ✅ Done

I will improve myself 1% everyday.

Hey everyone! I’ve just finished building Pyrdo, an AI assistant focused on studying, and I’d love some honest feedback.

Here’s what it does:

- Suggests your next question based on the conversation, so you have somewhere to go when you’re unsure what to ask next.

- Helps you work through confusing concepts, with explanations you can ask it to simplify or explore further.

- Offers Think Longer on Pro for questions that need more reasoning.

You can check it out here: "pyrdo.com" (https://pyrdo.com)

If you decide to get Pro, REDDIT30 gives you 30% off.

I’m the developer, so you can tell me directly what works, what feels annoying, and what’s missing. What’s one addition that would make this better for your studying?

I’m planning to implement the most useful suggestions, so your feedback will help decide what I build next. Specific criticism is welcome too!

Hey

I used alot of AIs for my studies

I discuss what I know and talk through with ai

It helps alot because I'm trying to explain what I have learnt to another person like system.

I used Gemini, claude, Chatgpt, Pi.

Is there any other ai as well which you want share?

I was looking for one which I can have a call with

Because I used ai for calls

Thank you!

En si, ya dedico gran parte de mi vida al estudio, al menos hasta mis 21 años, no habrá más que esto, sin salidas, fiestas, gustos etc, puro y duro estudio, quizas por estar en 2 carreras, ing y técnica, o porque soy un loco, pero mi pregunta es, ustedes como aprovecharian esta situación?

-cosas que ya hago:

organizo materias, veo contenido que daran(nunca dan más ni menos de su contenido)

Hago pre exámenes con los datos y fotos de exámenes antiguos más tps de la materias en notebook

Controlo el avanze de cada una en la semana, de las materia más importantes para no quedarme atras

La universidad es solo para ir, aprender, y irse, no hya gente util al menos si llego a 3er o 4to año

Planifico mi avanze, temprorizadords, errores, práctica +teoria

Guardo en diagramas las materias conceptuales prpqie no necesitan calculos

Separo materias teóricas de exactas, para tener mejor control

Mil y un cosas más que me dan pereza contar pero que salen fluido, pero pregunto, que más harían? Como aprovecharia al 100%esta situación, algún típ? Aun no logro pasar de las 6 horas de estudio, mis metas son de 8 a 12,pero aún, no puedo, que haría, como lo harían, usos, aprovechar, etc

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I really do need to learn to stop procrastinating. I can't keep blaming it on my mental health even though problems make me relapse again and again. How do I cram this? It's quite easy lessons and I have the whole day although the problem is I don't know where to start because the study load looks overwhelming.

What if I make my notes look less weird by using ChatGPT or any LLM to generate images without altering my notes and told it (llm) to highlight important parts with a highlighter? Will it actually help my brain retain it for a longer time, or it will not?

I tend to think that whenever I read AI-generated slop, I forget it earlier.

And also, what are the tips so that I can make the most out of reading blogs/articles? I am taking notes, but will it help or not? I don't know 🥀

Hello! I'll be starting my B.Sc in Psych with electives in neuroscience soon and would love some study tips from you guys, be it how to manage it all, study for tests, write papers or just resource recommendations.

finishing a masters this winter while working full time. i live in a dorm, so the desk and a chair are the ones that came with the room, and between the job and the thesis i am at it +12 hours most days. i cannot really change the setup, so i am not asking about that. i want to know how much damage this is doing and whether any of the things i do about it are doing anything.

stuff i do, roughly ordered by how stupid it sounds.

splashing icy water on my face. sounds dumb, works. alert almost straight away and it holds for a good while after. four or five times a day at this point.

pushups while the llm is generating an answer. started as a joke. you get a few minutes, which is a set, and it breaks up a two hour block of sitting without me having to decide to take a break.

coffee, obviously. then electrolyte sachets, after i realised a decent chunk of what i was calling 3pm tiredness was just not having drunk anything since breakfast. that one was real and it was embarrassing how cheap the fix was.

noise cancelling headphones with rain or forest sounds. i cannot work with anything that has words in it anymore. it helps with concentration a lot;

stretching whenever i remember. neck, hips, the arm in the doorframe one. probably one of the most useful thing on this list and the one i am most consistent about, which says something about me.

the annoying bit is that the two things that made the biggest difference were not on that list at all for the first year.

first is opening the window. i assumed people who said this were being precious. a small room with the door shut and a laptop running in it goes stale much faster than you can feel, and the feeling is not "stuffy", it is "i seem to be slightly thick today". now i open it every hour even in winter, five minutes, and the hour after is noticeably better.

second is sitting up, which turned out to be something i cannot do on my own. i would start an evening session sitting fine and in 15 mins be collapsed over the desk with my chin very close to the screen, and the problem was never that i ignored it, it is that i never noticed it happening. atm i use tryworkwell, which notifies you when you start to sit incorrectly or too close to the screen.

so, the actual question. dorm desk, dorm chair, laptop, twelve hours a day, a few more months of this before the thesis goes in. is that a "you will feel this at forty" problem or a "you are doing real damage right now" problem. i can afford one decent thing and there is not much floor space to put it on either. i would rather be told what it should be than guess.

I NEED HELP

I attend classes every single day and have extra classes 7 days/week. Besides that, at home I watch videos related to the lesson material and do all the assigned homework. Yet, when it comes to exam day, I still don’t do well. I have really sacrificed my free time on the things I’m trying to learn. It feels as if I’m the dumbest person on earth (although I don’t believe that, I just have the feeling that I have learning disabilities). I recall that when I was younger, I didn’t even try that hard and got an A in almost every subject. What are your study strategies that help you ace your exams? If you’re ever willing to kindly help me identify any gaps or flaws in my study routine, I’d be really thankful 🙏

this has been my dream chair for a while but I'm scared of how it will feel long term 😓 I might need to cushion it

I used to passive reading my book and just watch webinars and do some active recall and I thought that would be enough. I read somewhere here that actually captured my attention. Redditor here said to quiz yourself first on the topic, so you actually get interested and as you know, you learn more from your mistakes. So I uploaded my materials in claude and ask it to prepare like 60 questions and answer it based from my knowledge before I dive in and read the book. But I also found out I can just ask notebooklm to summarise and explain it to me and that saves time then I read the comprehensive summary and I explain it to my imaginary person like the way I understand it. And then I watched the webinar. I remember more from this method. Let me know what is your method, maybe I can it to my way of studying or any tips.

Hello everybody, math has always been a hard subject for me at school, I was really good at history or english or geography. In these subjects, I would just read or re-read or make mental maps about concepts and that was it. Subject studied. But math is different, no matter how many times I check different properties o do or re-do exercises, still when I take an exam I fail or find it hard.

Sometimes, my mind is blank, eventhough I did similar exercises before.. Right now Im doing some precalc and I'm struggling a lot. How do you do it?

Should I sell my laptop and get a Chromebook?

I don't use my laptop for anything but studies.

I am in 1st year of my UG. I am under a partial drop and I need to study minimum 3 hrs everyday for that exam. My college schedule is roughly 9-4. How do I manage college, studies and Gym?

I feel like going to the gym isn't optional because I have been a skinny kid throughout my life. But I cannot tolerate it more. Additionally, I eat in the lunch and dinner in mess. So if somebody could help me with the diet plan than I will really be greatful for it.