4 Powerful Scheduling Tools for Students This Fall
Overwhelmed? Overworked? Overstressed? These tools may help.
Time once again to kick your productive self into gear. OYMS understands that being a student involves a great deal of effort as well as time, so why not find ways to best organize your minutes and hours? From deadlines to meetings, to after-school clubs and down-time, this week’s blog is here to prepare you with tools for planning out every facet of life as a student.
Google Calendar
Available on: Online, iOS & Android mobile apps
If you’re already comfortable using your Google account and the G Suite applications, Google Calendar may be perfect for you. This program allows you a daily, weekly, and monthly overview in terms of meetings, homework, and more.
Features:
- Option to send you an agenda email first thing in the morning as an preview of your day
- Fully integrated with Gmail and Google Meetings
- Keep track of you to-do list side-by-side with your calendar using Google Tasks
- Create and share multiple calendars for separate schedules
Pricing:
- Free (appropriate for student needs)
- Business version: $5/month
- Enterprise — Adapted for your business needs
Todoist
Available on: Online, iOS & Android mobile apps
Todoist is a great way to stay on top of your tasks and be productive. It’s a to-do list app that lets you manage and share your tasks with your group members. Use subtasks, sub-projects, recurring tasks, notifications, different priorities, and more.
Features:
- Organize and divide your daily tasks into subtasks
- Prioritize tasks based on importance and order
- Task management for individuals or groups
Pricing:
- Basic: Free
- Premium: $3/person/month
- Business: $5/person/month
Notion
Available on: Online, iOS & Android mobile apps
You’ve seen it previously on OYMS blogs and here it is again. Notion is one of the most well designed workspaces to organize tasks, schedules, note-taking, project planning, presentations, organized docs, and more into one online planner. You can also invite others to view and collaborate with your schedules and events.
Features:
- Seamless cross-functional interface for workspace and scheduling.
- Create detailed databases
- Track projects and keep an eye on your tasks
Pricing:
- Personal: Free (adequate for student needs)
- Personal Pro: $4/month
- Team: $8/month
Clickup
Available on: Online, mobile devices
ClickUp is a workspace app for your daily planning and productivity. Create project timelines, schedule and edit tasks, work offline, make reminders, and take notes.
Features:
- Easy-to-use note taking and storage system
- Available integrations with Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and Google Meetings
- Customizable notifications, reminders and automations to cut down on repetitive tasks and unwanted noise.
- Get the daily planner with your group members to see a to-do list and schedule in one place
Pricing:
- Standard: Free
- Unlimited: $5/per member/month (Unlimited Storage and integrations)
About the Author
April Sui is a third-year student in Medical Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario. Treasurer and Marketing Head of Hashtag Health Podcast (based at UWO), she is also working with International Predental Student Alliance. Bookworm, origami fanatic and French tutor, you can find her on LinkedIn or Facebook.
Sources
https://friday.app/p/daily-planner-apps
https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/9302892?hl=en
https://clickup.com/
https://www.notion.so/
