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A study planner is where you decide what to study and when, and where the notes from each session end up, instead of carrying all of it in your head. This one is a notebook that runs in your browser: you write your notes, keep the tasks for each subject right beside them, and start a Pomodoro focus session on the task you picked. Everything you type is saved to the cloud, so the notebook you opened on a laptop is the same one waiting on your phone. You can keep a separate notebook for each subject, project or exam.
A new notebook can open blank or with a template already inside: class notes with a space for the points that did not click, exam revision as a topic checklist, a weekly class schedule laid out as a table, or a project plan with its goal and next steps. Every template is plain editable text — rename the headings, add rows, delete what you do not need. Each notebook gets its own icon and cover colour so you can tell your subjects apart at a glance.
The editor writes in Markdown: headings, lists, bold, links, tables and checkboxes you tick off as you go. Paste columns from a spreadsheet and they turn into a table. Your headings build an outline you can jump around in, search (Ctrl+K) looks through every notebook at once, and version history lets you go back to what you wrote earlier. When text is not enough — a diagram, a formula, a mind map — switch to the board and draw it with the pen, the eraser and undo.
Tasks written in a notebook show up in your timer tagged with that notebook, so a study session starts on the thing you actually planned. You can point the timer at a single line of your notes and work only on that. And from any other page you can jot an idea straight into your last notebook without leaving what you were doing.
A study planner is the place where you decide what to study and when, and where the notes from each session end up. It can be a paper notebook or, like this one, a page in your browser: your subjects on one side, your notes in the middle, and the tasks each subject needs next to them. What makes it a planner rather than a notepad is that it holds the plan and the material together — you open it to know what comes next, not only to reread what you wrote.
Yes. When you create a notebook you can start from a template instead of a blank page: class notes with a section for what you did not understand, exam revision with a topic checklist, a weekly class schedule already drawn as a table, or a project plan with its goal and next steps. Templates are ordinary editable text, so you can rename the headings, add rows to the table and delete the parts you do not use.
It runs in the browser. There is nothing to download and no extension to add: open the page on a laptop, a tablet or a phone and your notebook is there. Notes are saved to the cloud as you type, so the notebook you started in class is the same one you find at home, and the tasks you wrote in it appear in the timer on any device you sign in from.
Start with one notebook per subject and put the week’s real deadlines in it: the exam date, the day the assignment is due. Break each one into tasks small enough to fit inside a single focus session and estimate them in pomodoros rather than hours — “three pomodoros” is easier to judge, and easier to actually start. Lay your fixed hours out in a weekly table (the class schedule template is built for this), block your study sessions in the gaps, and leave one slot deliberately empty so the week survives the day that goes wrong. At the end of the week look at what you ticked off and re-estimate whatever you got wrong.