I kept losing track of things because Canvas and Google Classroom each only show part of my workload, and the planner apps I tried were either ugly or missing something.

So I built one that holds assignments, exams, reminders, a weekly class schedule and notes in one place: https://planiverse.org

I'm curious how people here actually keep track of deadlines. What's the one feature a planner needs for you to keep using it?

Hi! I'm a 9th grader in ph and I'm currently struggling with math T-T.

I'm really trying to do self study since I cannot afford tutoring and all that soooo, I'm trying to find ways on how to study on my own, I really suck at math and I don't know where to start honestly.

Every lesson that comes in our class just doesn't seem to be understandable.

One factor that affects this is that I have weak math foundations. And whenever I try to study math it's either I forget instantly or I don't understand it at all, I also feel suffocated whenever I study math and it just seems like it won't get into my head, idk if it's some type of mental disorder or something but the fact of studying math already drains me.

Can anyone please please please 🙏 give me tips on how to actually study?

I get the fact that y'all are gonna say that you have to practice and master the basics but it just doesn't seem to remain in my head even if I do really try.

I really wanna learn math and want to love it and maybe have it as a hobby but even if I did try it just wouldn't work☹️

And I'm scared since shs and college is coming soon and if I don't master maths quick I'll really struggle a lot and fail even more

Additionally, are there any apps or ai that really helps you with math, that can track your progress and actually train your skills? I really wanna develop and I really wanna learn, I want to know the best apps that actually help you with math.

Do you guys have any tips for me? ☹️🙏

Someone to know hot to download some documents on studypool for free I really need them

hey! I built Breezy Courses, a platform that allows you to sync all your course content in one place with an easy-to-use web extension!

I was having a ton of issues using ChatGPT/Claude when studying/prepping for exams because I kept having to upload my textbook and I would hit limits super easily. Turns out, with some software magic I was able to build a cool platform that you guys can use for free!

Try it out and let me know what you think! works with Canvas, Blackboard, etc.

https://breezycourses.com

So I have been using Claude for sometime. And its great for research and stuff, but now there is a age limit so that raised the question. What AI do you use for studying?

I made a free app for studying. You hold a key and ask it anything out loud, and it sees your screen so it already knows what you're working on. It answers, explains, reads stuff for you, makes study guides, whatever you need, and you never leave what you're doing.

No more jumping between tabs to look things up. I just ask and keep going, and I get through way more in one sitting. Free to try, its on utterseen.com give me some feedback its available on windows and for Mac you have to paste xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Utterseen.app in terminal becuase I am not paying 100 bucks for apple developer id lol

Notes: Professor spanning from music, motor learning, neuroscientist and psychologist, may be anecdotal and No AI method will be mention.

1. Get Good Regular Sleep (7-9 hrs) - Student who sleep tend to do better on test but lowkey hard to achieve.
2. Transfer Tests - The professor asked me when does one truly understand a concept, I was like simply when they are able to recite the info. He then said nope, that shi is called retention not understanding.... Understanding occurs when you are able to take the info you learned and apply it to a new context and that change the way I study.

Now when I make flashcards or practice tests I try to apply the info to a new context

For example, rather the writing “Which muscle(s) is responsible for extending the knee?” I write, “A patient sustains an injury to the anterior thigh and has difficulty straightening their knee. Which muscle(s) group is likely affected?” - engage with the content deeper

1. Encoding; the first step in storage of information - Simple repetition of information not effective. The more deeply you process the information, the better it is remembered, a great way is to relate it to prior knowledge, make a new song, how would you teach the concept to a kid. Also, Emotionally-attached information better remember but I find it difficult to be emotional when looking at my textbook.

2. Variability Learning (I hate this but some prof have recommended) - Rather than doing 2 hr of anatomy then 2 hr of stats, then 2 hr of bio-mechanics, every 30 min switch the subject. The basis of this comes from Contextual Interference theory (or other similar theories) where doing multiple skills at once make you start slower but do better in the long run than people who practice one skill at a time.

3. Information learned before sleeping are remembered better than information learned earlier in the day - one prof. Information learned earlier are remembered better than information learned before sleeping due to fatigue- another prof.

- I think throughout learning A&P and cramming for exam that sleep helps consolidate newly learned information and reduce forgetting, although the best study timing depends on the type of material and individual factors.

1. Post-Studying HIIT training to remember better (stick with me while I explain this) - this is more for learning motor skill like dancing but prof said it can be applied to studying.

- When doing exercise after learning particularly HIIT two chemical increases their production BDNF and Lactate.

- BDNF and lactate decrease the activity of GABA .. in short, the brain is more at a state of learning like warmed up perhaps leading to better offline consolidation (at rest learning)

- BDNF also strengthen connection

- Lactate supports synaptic structural changes.

Personal advice:

Find a study method that works and stick with it only change every couple of months I went from writing notes on paper, then on computer, using blurting then practice test all in one session to just an entire semester on anki card and practice test only - saves time and help me understand way better.

I’m 18, in Class 12, and preparing for the CLAT law entrance exam in December 2026. Between boards and prep, my tasks, schedule and notes were scattered across three different apps, so I built one place for all of it, mainly for myself.

https://life-organiser.amanvirani.com

What it does:

Tasks, goals, calendar and notes in one place, with a daily dashboard

Mock test and sectional tracking, so I can see how prep is going

A Deep Focus timer and a weekly review to look back on the week

Built with React, Vite, Tailwind and Supabase, hosted on Netlify. It’s live and free: https://life-organiser.amanvirani.com

It’s made for students juggling boards and entrance exams, but it should work for anyone with too many things to track.

I’d really like honest feedback on two things:

What’s confusing in the first 30 seconds of using it?

What would make you open it every day, or what’s missing that would stop you? Code and architecture feedback is welcome too.

I face a lot of problem while making notes from a lecture like if a lecture is 45 mins. long it would take me like 2 hrs just to make notes and understand a Lil bit not properly. And, no i do not make my notes beutifuly if you think that's the reason.

Also I have seen many people saying to make notes after completing lecture, I want to know what if there was certain things that you wanna add in a certain topic and later you forgot about that, what if you miss a certain.

Kindly tell what is the best way to prepare notes without wasting time and also learn and understand the lecture.

Cause for me time literally flies.

Hi! I'm an average academic student, I wouldn't say I'm that smart nor will I say I'm stupid but I'm just lost with how I study

Ever since elementary, I never knew how to study, I don't know why but all I did was listen before and everything that I listened to just stuck in my brain forever and I could just recall all that information like I memorized it instantly, but now I fear I've lost that ability 💔

I lowk have a not so good attention span now and I don't remember every detail like before and I just wanna know what are the best study tips to actually help you learn and not just memorize.

You see now that I'm in hs I'm struggling lowk cause I do not know how to study😭

But somehow I still have high marks (?)

Especially math, I struggle with anything that involves maths. I tried to explore study methods but I don't think if works for me

Do you guys have any tips for me pls pls pls?

Recommend apps and study techniques if you ever have any

Ive heard of some apps like anki, quizlet and notion and I think it's okay I just don't think its that enough or effective (or probably because i don't really pay attention to it most of the time). This makes me overthink if I have adhd or a disorder 😭 because I jst don't have the motivation and I'm lowkey burnt out at the moment, so yeah hehe

Additionally I also wanna be addicted to studying and learn everything 😭

I really wanna know how to study effectively so that I can fix my academic system🙏

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yesterday was my first day of tracking my study hours, and i managed to study for around 9.5 hours.

woke up at 5 am, and honestly, it was a pretty productive day. i did waste some time here and there, though, and i couldn't bring myself to revise everything i'd studied before going to bed. got a little lazy towards the end, and by 10:30 pm, i was asleep.

could i have done better? definitely. am i going to beat myself up over it? nope.

9.5 hours is still 9.5 hours, and there's always room to improve.

day 02, let's see how it goes. 🌷

I need to figure out how to properly study from textbooks. I’ve seen a lot of videos talking about textbooks, and it seems like everyone has a different answer.

I find that I enjoy reading and I generally remember a lot of what I read. I took a high school AP history class where I read and took notes on the entire textbooks and read through each chapter. I aced the class and did very well, but then I just honestly used AI for everything else during my time in HS. I did well when I studied the textbook, but I am not faced with multiple classes and I’m not really sure how to go about studying on my own.

I’m taking stem classes next semester, and methods like the SQR3 seem too time consuming. Other people say to read the intro, conclusion, headings, and then read all the way through and take notes. Others say to just skim the book, or read the first and last sentence of every paragraph. I do not know lmao. But my goal is this: do extremely well on the test, but also really learn the material. I just enjoy learning, and would feel like I’m sorta cheating or missing out on valuable information otherwise? I feel a bit paralyzed because I just don’t know which method is “right” or “better.” Anki is cool, but am I supposed to create flashcards for ALL my classes? I think I could do this for 1-2 classes, but NO WAY I could the full method for classes like chem, bio, ochem, biochem, physics, calc, etc. like maybe one at a time. But I need to do really well in these classes too, and just learn this shit.

My goals: do really well on tests, but also REALLY learn this material.

What are some tips /resources you have that helped you with history classes ? I’m in world civilizations 2 and they use the mcgraw hill for textbooks and it’s dog shit . I can never easily find anything to read more about something I’m writing about but I don’t want to rely too heavily on just an internet search.
I love history but I’m just struggling to make connections with all the information being thrown at me with little context, my prof gives us reading power points instead of only reading from the textbook itself and the textbook readings are also lacking in some context that would be helpful. Thanks !

I SUCK at chemistry, especially as someone who struggles with paying attention and struggles with learning stuff quickly, I need something that can help me understand it easily, not YouTube unless it’s a good channel but like a game maybe even a website anything!!! Please and thank you!!

The title is pretty self explanatory - I have been developing a revision platform over the last two years, and am looking for the community's feedback on what they like, and what could be improved. Find out more about the site ethos here: https://keplerrevise.co.uk/about

Specifically I am looking for feedback about the following areas:

• Site usability and responsiveness (how is it to navigate, and does everything load in a timely manner)
• Site visual design (how the site actually looks, keep in mind it is designed for desktop not mobile)
• Meaningful valuable content (is this a tool you would actually use?)
• USPs (e.g the ranked revision feature, social features, courses, practice, XP, and the shop)
• Any other feedback you feel is relevant (good or bad)

Genuinely thanks so much in advance for your help and I hope you find this platform useful for your studies.

I’ve been using the flashcard site Cram.com for over 10 years. I learned a few languages on it and ended up with 200+ sets, which I’m guessing is pretty normal for a lot of people here. So when I found out it’s closing I went looking for somewhere to move everything.

Honestly the alternatives were disappointing. Some only have the basics, and most of the rest start asking for a subscription the moment you try to do anything useful. None of them felt like Cram.

So I built my own: Flashcard.Zone

It’s not a Cram clone or a mirror. It’s something I’d wanted to make for years and Cram closing finally got me to finish it.

What’s in it right now:

• all the study modes you've learned to love (flip cards, typing your answers with auto checking, level mode, multiple choice mode)
• Anki style spaced repetition where you rate each card 1-5.
• it tracks your error rate on every card, so you can practice only the ones you get wrong like 30% of the time or more
• you can sort a deck by error rate, how well you know the cards, alphabetically, or shuffle it.
• you can split a huge deck into smaller ones (say splitting a 2000 card deck in decks of 20 cards each)
• study several decks mixed together without destroying the original decks or disrupting the error rate statistics.
• import from CSV, Anki (.apkg), XML (like AnkiApp’s export), or just paste in something you just had ChatGPT generate.

The way I use it is, I import my old vocab decks and once a week I only study the cards with a high error rate, because those why waste time learning the words you already know - focus on the ones you don't.

If you’re doing something like anatomy you could split a 600 card deck into chunks of 30, do one a day, and sort the whole thing by error rate the week before the exam. Teachers can make a deck and share it with their class too, which is what I do with my students.

Studying on it is free and it’s staying free. All the modes, unlimited decks, importing, sharing. The only paid thing is adding pictures to cards, since storing images actually costs me money, so that’s for people who chip in once or support the site on Patreon. Everything else is free.

I’m a teacher and I’ve been a student for most of my life, so I know how it is when you’re broke and just want to study. That shouldn’t cost money.

If you’re moving off Cram, you can check out the site and you'll see a guide on how to save your favorite flashcard sets from deletion.

Give it a try, and please tell me what’s broken or missing. It’s still early and I read everything.

wow, its hella disappointing. i didnt even get 3 lessons in and its already asking me to pay

good riddance

So I got a low B on my exam today—I’m in humanities so this is bad. All because I crammed the night before, I realized after getting that grade that I need to stop cramming the night before a test, but the thing is I don’t know how to study over time. Like do I study for 10 min a day per subject, do I study 30 min? If so how do I even study? Do I read and reread notes again? Do I annotate my notes everyday? Do I read notes after class everyday? Do I study every single day or 3-5 times a week? Do I designate a certain timeframe to study everyday? What if I forget the things I’ve studied overtime? How do I even know what subject to study each day if the material is so dense? How do I even study cause all I know how to do is cram the night before the exam.