Stop Procrastination

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After stalking the Studyblr community, I’ve been inspired to put my head down, and get shit done. 

Here are some post which have inspired me the most, and made me mucho more productive:

Learn new things for free

How to reach your goals

Top study tips 

How to make a study schedule 

Day planner template 

6 ways to avoid burn out

Bullet Journal 

The notebook in the picture is to start my Bullet Journal - nervous about starting a fresh notebook..

Go forth and study study study!! 

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I need a new laptop, urgently. I can't finish this labels because it freeze all the time.

[attackonstudying-deactivated201]

Time is mysterious. There are some days where we feel as though we have an abundant amount of time and enough time to accomplish whatever we wish to accomplish. But, alongside those days, we have days where we feel as though we do not have enough time.

1. What are You...

[geekvitamin]

1. If you fall asleep now, you will dream. If you study now, you will live your dream. 2. When you think it’s too late, the truth is, it’s still early. 3. The pain of studying is only temporary. But the pain of not knowing—ignorance—is forever. 4. Studying is not about...

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Essential Productivity Apps for any student:

Caffeine-  Prevents your screen from going into sleep mode. Great if you’re writing notes on an article and the screen keeps dimming, whilst you hope that if you stare long enough, the phrase “homologous ways to a view of hegemony” will start to make sense.

Flux- If you find that you can’t sleep for ages after studying late at night, then this app is a total game changer. It basically turns the light on the screen red, because science people say that blue light keeps you awake and red light doesn’t. (*Full Disclosure* I’m not a scientist)

Focusbar- The annoying voice of your mother nagging you to finish your homework…in app form. You can set the annoying level (I have it set on “wildly annoying”) and a bar will appear in the corner every few seconds to remind you that you’re supposed to be doing something else besides looking at cat photos. 

Microsoft Office- self explanatory, so I’ve linked to an article about life hacks for Microsoft Office instead. Because I’m just that awesome. 

Nag- Does your 5 minute study break keep turning into an hour on Youtube? Then you need Nag in your life. It’s basically an alarm/timer. But an extremely loud and annoying alarm/timer that’s very difficult to ignore. The bells genuinely sound more judgemental the longer you ignore it.  

Self Control-  Also known as Cold Turkey for Microsoft users. If you absolutely cannot be trusted with an internet connection, then you need Self Control in your life. You add a list of websites to the “blacklist”and then set how long you want the app to work for, and for that duration of time you wont be able to access those website. Seriously, not even rebooting your computer or uninstalling the app will let you access the blacklist until your time is up. Tough love at its finest.

Zotero-  The new love of my life. Zotero allows you to manage all your citations and sources in one easy place. It’s an absolute life saver- no joke. There’s an in-word add in, so it will write your bibliography and citations for you in any format you want. There’s a chrome/firefox add in and a mobile app, so you don’t even have to type the citation into Zotero. Just press the button it does all the hard work for you. It even updates itself online, so you can still access your bibliography if your computer crashes. I <3 Zotero 5eva. 

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duolingo // learn languages for free

rhymezone // type in a word and find words that rhyme

onelook // reverse dictionary

hemingwayapp // check your essay for readability

thesaurus // find synonyms, antonyms and more

planetebook & gutenberg // free ebooks

coursera // free online courses

realtimeboard // a virtual pinboard

pianotte & imslp // free piano sheet music

tunefind // find songs used in movies and tv shows

tothebestof // listen to the top 10 songs of any band or musical artist

omgcatz // download 8tracks playlists

tags.goose // mass tumblr tag replacer

colorpicker // helps you choose #hex colours

wordmark // helps you decide on fonts from your computer

iemoji // copy+paste tool for ios emojis on browsers

simpledesktops & subtlepatterns // simple desktop backgrounds

fount // identify fonts on websites

dafont & googlefonts // places to find lots of fonts

wigflip // pixel speech bubble generator

myfridgefood // check what stuff you have in your fridge and get some recipe ideas

roadtrippers // tool to plan a roadtrip across america

recitethis // turn a quote into a masterpiece

letterboxd // organize the movies you’ve watched, loved and plan on watching

soundrown // listen to various calming sounds

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Ok here is a compilation of all the software and useful tools I’ve come across whilst writing. Some of them I’ve reviewed on here already, more coming soon. 

Got an idea? Well get planning! Here’s some useful outlining, brainstorming and mind- mapping software:

Coggle 

Lucidchart

Mural.ly

Blumind

MindMeister

Mindmaple

Mindomo

NovaMind

Popplet

Scapple

Tree Sheets

Visual Understanding Environment (VUE)

XMind

FreeMind

Oak Outliner

Work Flowy

The Outliner of Giants

Just want to get writing? You want a word processor:

Gedit

Google Docs

Kate

LibreOffice

Microsoft Word

My Writing Spot

NoteTab

Open Office

Quabel

Ted

Vim

yEdit

Making notes? Here you go:

CintaNotes

Evernote

KeepNote

Memonic

MS OneNote

Scribe

SuperNotecard

Tomboy

Timelines giving you a headache? Try these:

Aeon Timeline 

Dipity

Preceden

Tiki-Toki

Timeglider

Timeline

TimelineJS

TimeToast

Now perhaps you want to organise those notes. Got a lot of research? Character sheets? Images? Well here’s some tools to keep all that together:

Liquid Story Binder XE

LitLift

PangurPad

Scriptito

Scrivener

Writer’s Café

Yarny

yWriter

Are you easily distracted? The following tools will keep you on track:

Dark Room 

FocusWriter

JDarkRoom

Momentum Writer

OmmWriter

Q10

Writemonkey

Zen Writer 

Even more productivity tools to help keep you focussed on your task:

Cold Turkey 

FocalFilter

Freedom

InternetOff

Keepmeout

Nanny

Productivity Owl

RescueTime

SelfControl

SelfRestraint

Simple Blocker

StayFocusd

Strict Workflow

Time Doctor

Waste No Time

Website Blocker

So you’ve got something down? Need to edit? 

AutoCrit

EditMinion

Grammarly

LyX

SlickWrite

SmartEdit

After the Deadline

All done? Perhaps you’d like some e-publishing tools:

Acrobat

InDesign

Calibre

CutePDF

Jutoh

Mobipocket Creator

PagePlus

PageStream

PDFCreator

Scribus

Sigil

Turns out I’d forgotten about screenwriters, so here goes:

CeltX

Plotbot

Scripped   

ScriptBuddy 

Trelby 

WriterDuet 

Slugline 

Page2Stage 

Highland 

I’m feeling generous, have some more cool stuff:

750 Words

One Page per Day

Oneword

Penzu

Write or Die

Written Kitten

Focus Booster

Spaaze

AutoREALM (Map building software)

ETA: After a request I’ve added screenplay software to the list.

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[wannabeorganized]

Stop procrastinating!

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On the first page of my agenda :)

*disclaimer: I did not design it myself

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