Nowadays, there are a lot of student-friendly apps and websites that help you learn, be more organized, cut down your time, and make things easy. Even if you are not a student, these websites are definitely gonna help you be more organized. You can get all of these for free if you're using them for desktop as chrome extensions but it may not be the same for your androids or iPhones.

So here are the top five websites that I think every student needs:

1.Notion: 

Where do I even start? I have recently started using its chrome extension and to be honest, I regret all the time I didn't use it. It has got a variety of features to make you more ordered. The most important of which I feel is the everyday to-do list. Bonus points to this because as a student I have lectures every day and several meeting links that, I for sure get confused with. But with Notion, just in front of the task say, for example, Psychology lecture, I can immediately insert the link and I'm all sorted. They also have planners, reminders, private journals. Also, if you have to revise a subject and you pen it down in your to-do list, there's an option called ‘sub-type' wherein you can note the bullet points of the chapter, links to various helpful videos, and articles related to the chapters.

So hands down, this one's for you if you want to be more systematic.

2.Off-time: 

As the name suggests, ‘Off-time’ is an app that helps you restrict the activity on your phone while you are studying, working, or whenever you need to be ‘away from your phone’. There's a timer that you set, a timer for being away from your phone. So, if you set a timer for say ‘one hour, it'll restrict all your activity for one hour. It also congratulates you on finishing along with asking you- ‘what were you able to?’ and draws out your daily & weekly statistics based on that. It does, also ask you- ‘what interrupted you?' when you don't reach the goal.

I've been using the app for months now but it's not working at its optimized state recently since even though having restricted all activities, phone calls reach me. 

You can also customize the restricted activities meaning- you choose what apps will and will not function, whose phone call can or cannot reach you during the ‘offtime’ is on. I also a here a lot of other options for this app like in one which every time you start a timer, you are sowing a seed, it starts growing and if you interrupt, the plant dies.

3. SparkNotes: 

It is a website that provides you with a summary or short overview of any topic of a subject that you're looking for. You can make the best use of it a night before an exam since you won't have much time and a summary won't get all confused. After going through the summary, You can also take many quizzes based on the topic you just studied. It mostly focuses on literature, so it can prove very handy to literature students- they have famous lit-books broken down and explained. If you are not a literature student it might happen that you may not get a chapter or so, sometimes. Other than that, there's a blog section that you can explore which has fun facts about books, movies, etc.

4. Quizlet: 

This is currently my favorite. I had exams recently and it has been a complete savior for me.

Basically, the center of attraction of this website is the ‘flashcards’  questions that it functions. If I want to solve questions on a topic called ‘schizophrenia’, I search and there appears a list of sets from a variety of teachers and guides from across the globe. You can select whichever set you like and get started. After you're done with the flashcard questions, there's also a newly introduced ‘Learn mode’ wherein you are supposed to solve MCQ questions. It keeps on showing your progress, also correct answer with an explanation if you go wrong.

I honestly look forward to solving questions on Quizlet after every study session of mine. It is indeed my favorite among all these five.

5. Speechify: 

Last but not the least, we have a boon of a website that it is called ‘Speechify’. According to me, this is a must in times of online school when we have to bawl our eyes out studying countless pdfs, emails, articles, and every text. This website basically reads the pdf for you. You just have to upload your pdf to it, choose a language amongst the tons that they have, then select a narrator, all of them which represent different countries and with diverse accents. You can also choose the speed at which you wish to hear and you get to choose where you want to start hearing from, unlike most other apps/ websites that I came across wherein it all starts from the beginning, again and again.

Bonus tip- If you don't have subscriptions to any audiobook apps, here's a tip for ya- if you can get an ebook of a novel, you can easily convert it into an audiobook with the help of Speechify, which is what I do most of the time. 

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