Apps and Tools
Productivity
Forest
Forest is an app that allows you to plant trees and grow a forest by refraining from using your phone for set periods of time. It also allows you to block certain sites from your browser on Chrome for certain duration. |
Flat Tomato
Flat Tomato is a really easy to use, simple designed app to use the pomodoro technique from your phone. |
Note-Taking
Pages
Pages in the Apple equivalent of Microsoft Word. It is a text-treating software that is very simple and intuitive to use and very versatile. I really like to writes my notes with it. |
One Note
One Note is a Microsoft Office tool you can use for free both on PC and Mac and is perfect to organize your notes. You create notebooks, in which you have different tabs and each tab can have unlimited amount of different pages. |
Studying, Assignments and Exam Prep
Voice memos
Voice memos is a built-in app on your phone, that is really useful to record yourself reading your notes out loud and then listen back to it if you are an auditory learner. |
A+ Flashcard
A+ Flashcard is on of many flashcard apps available to help you create flashcards to study for your course. |
Organization and Planning
Wunderlist
Wunderlist is a great list app that allows you to create folders and subfolders, in which you can create checklists. Each item can be stared, have a due date, a reminder set, subtasks, notes and files attached. |
Apple Notes
Apple notes has gotten a lot better lately. You can create folders and sub-folders. You can make quick checklists, notes, etc. |
Dropbox
Dropbox or other cloud storage (Google Drive, One Drive, iCloud...) is essential to store your notes, assignments and other school documents so you can access them from anywhere and so they are backed up in case of mishaps. |
iStudiez Pro
iStudiez is a great planner app that allows you to write all your task for your different courses, track your grades, see your school schedule, assignments, etc. |
Habit Forming
Habit Forming
Sounds
Sounds
Spotify
I use a few different playlist to study. I have an "atmospheric rock" instrumental playlist. I also like to listen to really old music like Christmas classics and the Fallout 4 playlist I found. |
Tide
Tide is a Pomodoro app with white noise. |
Reading
Reading
Socratic
Socratic is a homework helper app that helps you solve math equations and answer most questions you encounter during your homework. |
Duolingo
Duolingo is a free language-learning platform that includes a language-learning website and app, as well as a digital language proficiency assessment exam. |
More Tools
SleepBot
SleepBot logs your sleep, tracks movement and sound, and wakes you up at the best time each day. |
Amazon Student
Amazon Canada offers Amazon Prime Student, a Prime membership program created for college students. Students receive a six-month trial that includes Free Two-Day Shipping, and receive 50% off Amazon Prime after the trial ends. |
My School Videos
School Tips
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School Vlogs
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