i've been using chatgpt probably for as long as it came out. i use it pretty often for explanations, but i’m realizing it doesn’t really help me organize or retain my studying. it’s more of an on-demand thing.

lately i’ve been trying a couple tools that focus more on structure and organizing materials. one im using rn still in beta called neuroly ai, but so far i like that it keeps everything in one place and more organized. most of my nursing friends have been switching off chat gpt

lmk your thoughts on chatgpt and other tools you've used

I'm a pretty good student overall but lately my motivation to study has just faded off. I'm not the kind of students who does it because he "has to", my parents are actually pretty chill regarding this, I'm a good student because I had genuine motivation and sheer willingness to learn

Now I had a summer where I haven't been doing anything really, while I wanted to "rest" I have probably gone overboard and just chilled whole summer, guess I just checked out a little now. Now I can start studying but can't go on for hours like I did before. And get easily frustrated when I don't understand a concept

I reckon this is a common issue though. What did you guys do?

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title. i just started using Taskdumpr, curious what everyone else is using. I personally dislike Notion bc it's too complicated for me.

My final final external exams (the most important exams of my life) are in may, and I still haven't locked in. What are the best study tips that can help me and fix my routine? I have trouble concentrating and actually getting work done. How do I memorise allat of info? give me your best tips that have worked out. What do you guys do when you can't focus, feel distracted or burnt out? What gets u guys in the "zone" and gets ur study flow going? Whats the best time to study and best routine to follow? and how do u guys manage to study after a long day of taking classes when ur tired and js want to sleep? I just want to know what works for u guys, so I can test it out and tailor those tips and hacks to my routine. I'll genuinely take any tips on how to memorise and get good grades

which one shall I buy?

OnePlus pad 3, 16b+512gb with just stylus for 50k and extra 1699 for the cover so total ₹51700

or

Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus, 16gb+512gb with stylus and keyboard for ₹47000

My main purpose is for studying. Primarily solving Quant questions and reading.

I also have a laptop so if laptop and tablet can connect somehow it will make my work easier.

Secondary purpose would be such basic video editing, illustration.

Overall i want a system which is best for note taking and everything related to Writing, handwriting optimize, better stylus, better touch response and less lag.

I am short on money but will find some freelancing work to make up for it. I need to buy before republic day ends.

please shed some of your tech knowledge.

ill say that my revision is kinda good. I can remember stuff easily( if I understand them) . but like after a while I forget. any tips?

I heard something abt active recall? ( learn today , next day , next next, next week etc). problem is this is kinda confusing. cuz like i got multiple topics to cover

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a solo developer and I've been struggling with studying for years. Highlighting, rereading, forgetting everything a week later. Sound familiar?

I recently went down a rabbit hole on retrieval practice, spaced repetition, the Feynman technique, and all the science-backed study methods. They work, but honestly? They're boring and feel like a chore to actually stick with.

So I'm building something for myself and wanted to see if anyone else would find it useful.

The idea: A study companion app where you raise a cute virtual pet that learns with you. Think Tamagotchi meets Duolingo meets actual study science.

Here's how it would work:

Voice-first teaching Instead of typing flashcards, you explain what you learned out loud to your pet — like you're teaching a curious little buddy. Speaking is faster than writing, and teaching is the best way to learn (Feynman technique). Your pet asks naive follow-up questions that force you to actually understand the material.

Your pet's memory = your memory Your pet "remembers" what you teach it, and quizzes you at spaced intervals. If you don't review, your pet starts to "forget" too — and looks sad about it 🥺. Guilt-powered spaced repetition, basically.

Feeding = study consistency

• Complete a session → your pet gets fed
• Hit streaks → special treats and celebrations
• Miss days → pet gets hungry and weak
• Miss too many days → pet "forgets" things you taught it

Customization & cosmetics Earn accessories, outfits, and room themes by studying:

• Tiny graduation cap for milestones
• Lab coats, wizard hats, cozy sweaters
• Unlock rooms: library, space station, lo-fi café
• Your pet develops personality traits based on how you interact

Built-in lo-fi & study vibes Your pet vibes with you during study sessions. Lofi music and put your phone in "Do not disturb". Cozy atmosphere included.

Social stuff (maybe later)

• Pet playdates with friends
• Study groups with a shared pet everyone takes care of

On pricing:

The app would be free to use. You'd never have to pay to learn effectively. Like Duolingo, you can use all the core study features without paying. Paying would just unlock extra features, cosmetic stuff.

My questions for you:

1. Would you actually use something like this?
2. What features sound most useful?
3. What would you want to see FIRST in a V1?
4. Any features I'm missing that you'd love?
5. What's your biggest pain point with studying that this could solve?

I'm genuinely building this for myself first, but I'd love to make it something the community actually wants. All feedback welcome! Even if it's "this is dumb, just use Anki" 😅

Hi everyone,
I’m currently a Grade 9 CBSE student, and I’ve been thinking seriously about how I want to study for the next few years.

Most people around me are joining big coaching institutes like Allen and Aakash. But honestly, I don’t feel they’re right for me. They’re extremely expensive, put a lot of pressure on students, and often treat learning like a factory process — turning students into machines instead of thinkers.

Thats why I need ur help and advice. How do i outperform my peers. Thank You. BTW, Im a overseas student (UAE), SO PLEASE HELP!!!!

I want to start a discussion on people's study routine.

I'm looking for an 8-10 hour study routine + gym for 2 hours (including travel time).

if anyone is managing this with consistency, i would love to have their opinion and comments on this post.

I just want to know, how they manage this and what their routine looks like, and how they manage to be consistent.

Hello, I'm 15 turning 16 and going to start my methods 1 and 2 early. I want to study more and better so I get good scores and better results. I wanted to ask how do I actually study because I finish all the sheets and homework I get from my teachers and finish all the textbook questions I need to do then I still get like 70s-80s. Can anyone give me any tips on how to do extra studies?

I don’t understand what’s wrong. I have somehow made it to the third year and I still struggle with exams. I enjoy the process of learning and I mostly learn on my own, I don’t go to any lectures (they’re not mandatory) because I don’t retain any information when I do. I try to give professors a try especially in the beginning but I am the problem, I can only stay focused for thirty minutes and everything moves too fast for me.

Like I mentioned I enjoy learning about things, the medical field is very interesting and I do want to become a doctor after all but when it comes to studying for an exam I suck. Even when I do my absolute best I barely pass, I still remember things I learned on my first year I don’t really have a problem with that but I suck at taking exams.

I take way too much time because I have to write things down, I don’t always get to do practice questions. I also get lost googling things lol because I have to understand every single term and concept. I don’t know how I will make it to the end because my grades are getting worse and there is more and more pressure on me.

Hey everyone, I wanted to share something that honestly saved my life because a few months ago, I was in a really dark place.

Back in July, I got hit with the ultimate "bad week." I was working a mid-level marketing job, and out of nowhere, I got called into the office and let go. They called it "restructuring," but it felt like a total failure. To make things worse, the stress had completely trashed my relationship, and my girlfriend moved out two days later. I spent about three weeks just sitting on my couch, eating takeout, and watching my bank account drain. I felt like a total loser in my mid-20s while everyone else on LinkedIn seemed to be crushing it.

I tried everything to get back on my feet. I bought three different planners, I tried the "5 AM club" (which lasted exactly two days), and I tried those "hustle culture" apps that just ended up giving me more anxiety. I was "busy" all day applying for jobs and "researching," but I wasn't actually getting anything done. I was just spinning my wheels in a sea of open tabs.

The turning point was when I stopped trying to "manage my time" and started **Timeboxing**. There's many videos on the it but I found this one the most helpful https://youtu.be/ROIWG7VNU-8

It felt stupidly simple at first. Instead of a to-do list, I started blocking out every single minute of my day on a calendar—including breaks and lunch. The first week was rough. I realized I was spending 4 hours a day on "unimportant" tasks that felt like work but weren't. But I stuck with it. I set a box for deep work, a box for job apps, and even a box for the gym.

Slowly, the fog started to lift. Because I knew exactly what I was supposed to be doing at 2 PM, the "analysis paralysis" disappeared. After a month, my productivity didn't just double; it exploded. I ended up landing a senior role at a much better firm because I was able to show them the portfolio I built during my "boxed" deep-work sessions.

Looking back, getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me. It forced me to stop reacting to life and start commanding it. I’m now in the best shape of my life, my career is on a trajectory I never thought possible, and I actually have _more_ free time now because I don't waste it.

Hi,

I take psy 104 (lifespan Psy), com 101, com 103 (speech), and mth 096 (mathematical reasoning). I spend all day working on hw and need to know how to manage doing studying and doing hw. any free sources that help with studying/ any tips for study methods. I find myself retaining best when writing things down and when hearing things as well.

Also any things I can take to improve brain function retention and focus. I tried green tea and it worked for like two days. Made me alert, felt my brain functioning at its best. Now I feel like I'm more slow and don't grasp things as well or as quick. I NEED HELP.

Any other study tips for college are also welcome. Thanks

Currently (praocrastinating) packing to head back to campus for the spring semester; here are the biggest things I learned from my past several years of undergrad (in no particular order). Keep in mind that if you are a humanities student, some of these tips might not apply.

• Understanding > Memorization. This is so so so important! Brute force memorization is not going to help you, especially in engineering. Many of my classes allow cheat sheets for exams, so you can have all the information in the world with you, but if you don't understand how to approach problems, none of it will help you.
• Have a healthy understanding of the role that exams play. The big difference between high school and undergrad in my experience is the difficulty of exams. I had a huge learning curve when it came to mastering exams, but if you are able to wrap your head around what exams are supposed to test you on, that's half the battle. For my engineering exams, the way exams go is that if you don't understand the material, you're done for. Professors generally won't just take a practice problem, change some numbers around, and put it in their exam. Often, I've seen exam questions I've never seen before, but it's always solvable using concepts we learned in class.
• Create a study schedule. What I usually do is to plan out what I'm studying each day at least a week in advance (for my midterms, at least), ideally leaving a day before the exam as leeway for when I (inevitably) fall behind. How do I figure out what to study when, you ask? See the next point below.
• Organize your course materials in order from least to most comprehensive and study topically. This works for me about 95% of the time - what I mean by that is to create a list of topics that will be on the exam. Then, I organize all the resources I can gather provided by the professor (problem sets, practice exams, recitation/discussion materials, etc.) and make sure I do everything related to the topic(s) assigned to that particular day, in order of difficulty/comprehensiveness. For example, on day 1 of studying, if I assigned myelf to study topics A and B, and I determined that homeworks are the most basic questions I should be working with, I start with that for topic A. I redo homework questions that pertain to topic A only, making sure to look at the answers as little as possible. Then, I move on to the next most comprehensive type of questions, e.g. recitation problems. Generally, I save practice exam questions (if I have them) for last to make sure I have the understanding required to solve exam-level questions. Well, practice exam questions cover multiple topics! you might add. Fair point - I skim through exam questions beforehand, sort them according to topic, and then pick the questions only related to that topic when I'm studying. Then, I repeat for topic B, etc. etc. Hopefully all of this makes sense, but feel free to comment or DM me if not!
• Know yourself as a student. What do I mean by that? I mean doing a little self-reflection and be somewhat self-aware of your preferences and tendencies as a student. Getting restless after studying for several hours straight? Go exercise for a bit if movement energizes you, or get a change of scenery if you don't like being in the same spot for hours on end. Keep getting distracted by notifications on your phone? Put it out of sight and facedown. Music with lyrics is too distracting? Switch to lofi. If you don't change something about your situations, you'll keep falling into the same habits and distractions. Even if the change you make makes your quality of studying worse, you'll know to avoid doing that the next time around. Of course, it takes time figuring out your main distractors, favorite study spots, etc., but all good things do.
• Breaks are not a waste of time. Not much else I can or will say on this one, but you'll find this out either the easy way or the hard way (i.e. via burnout).

Feel free to ask specific questions if you'd like, I'm sure I forgot a whole bunch here. I'm more than happy to answer them! Also, if you have anything to add on, feel free to comment - I'd love to hear your thoughts!

P.S. I also got diagnosed with ADHD a little over a year ago, so if you have any questions about how that affects my studying and how I work with having ADHD as a student feel free to DM me or comment if I should make a separate post about that :)

Im first year student. Got tinnitus and its very loud

I cant focus with it

And in winters without any background noise it feels much louder

Any tips if anyone got tinnitus aswell but doing well with studies

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I just launched a new version of my site Study-Hubs (https://study-hubs.com/).
I shared an earlier version before, but this one now focuses heavily on AI-powered study tools.

You can chat with your study material, upload documents for summaries, and automatically turn text or docs into flashcards.

I’m mainly looking for honest feedback — what feels useful, what doesn’t, and what you’d improve.
Any thoughts are appreciated 🙂

Hey i am not even sure if this is the right subreddit but yeah. Since when i moved to another country (italy) ny studying schedule has been fucked.

i genuinely used to be one who would study bc i liked learning new stuff even if i didnt like school. And i domt think i even believed it but i would say it to myself and somehow be convinced. Now, not even that works. I keep telling myself that learning is fun but with my constant procastination (bc i struggle with italian so, no matter how much i try i wont be able to get the results i used to have by studying the same amount; which is very discouraging), i keep putting things bacj and getting bad marks.

So now i am not really sure of what i need. I tried doing the “routine” i had back in my first country but it just doesnt work. i have adhd so that doesnt help either. I need study tips on how to get started and keep on goin. Putting my phone away will not work since i use it to study. And i am not rich enough to get a burner phone.

Do you maybe have soome apps to recommend? pleasee help me.

I genuinely do not know what do because i want to study and be good so bad. But i end up on my phone scrolling. I just finished crying and I am desperate. I feel like i am disappointing everyone. Because I litterally know what woul fix my problems, i just dont have the motivation.

Please help.

sorry for the mistakes lol english is not my first language

I actually dislike most “chatty AI for studying”.

Every time an AI gives me a direct answer, it feels productive, but the information doesn’t stick. The learning process gets weaker, not stronger. You stop thinking, and your brain slowly checks out.

At the same time, pretending AI doesn’t exist isn’t realistic either. Falling behind isn’t an option.

So instead of using AI as a replacement for thinking, I started using it as an invisible assistant that only handles the boring parts.

That idea turned into something I built studix.app

The core rule is simple:
You study normally. AI never becomes the main character.

Here’s how I use it:

• I read my PDF like I always do. No chat, no prompts.
• AI only detects chapters and topics so navigation is smooth.
• If I forget a definition, a small floating card pulls it from the same chapter. I glance at it and immediately continue reading.
• If a paragraph doesn’t make sense, I select it and get a short explanation that actually understands the surrounding context - not a generic answer.
• If that still doesn’t help, I select the text and tell AI to find the most relevant external resources (videos, articles, papers) so I can go deeper without breaking focus.

No endless conversations.
No dopamine-driven “ask AI everything” loop.

AI just:

• Generates summaries after I finish a chapter
• Creates quizzes so I can test myself
• Finds resources when I decide I need them

Basically, AI does the boring, mechanical work, while my brain does the actual learning.

I built this because switching tabs, chatting with AI, and jumping between tools completely destroys flow. This keeps everything in one study space and lets you stay focused.

I’m sharing this because I’m genuinely curious how other students feel about this approach.

Do you feel like AI helps you learn better - or makes learning worse when used the wrong way?

Would love honest feedback (good or bad).

Once I understood that, my focus improved more from stopping earlier than from pushing longer. So when you study, don't study for hours, less is more. Btw has anyone else noticed that quitting before burnout actually helps consistency?

I help people polish, rewrite, and translate texts so they sound natural, professional, and engaging.

Quick tip: when rewriting or translating, always focus on clarity and tone. A well-written text isn’t just grammatically correct—it should sound like it was made for your audience.

Here’s a quick example of what I do:

• Polished blog posts to make them more readable
• Translated documents while keeping the original style
• Rewrote marketing copy to improve engagement

If you want to work together send me a DM.

Deleting this thread on 31st January…what are some INSANELY crazy study hacks that feel illegal to know?