10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)

images searchable. That’s right - you can take a picture of a syllabus with your 
phone, then search for details in the text later. It’s amazing.

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When I was a student, I was able to pull up my notes right on my phone while 
waiting for exams so I could quickly review. Evernote has also saved my butt on 
more than a few occasions; getting into the habit of saving anything I think I 
might need later in it has really paid off.
If you’re going to take lecture notes on a computer, I highly recommend doing it 
in Evernote. Even if you take them on paper, you can choose to photograph 
them and import them into Evernote notebooks later if you’d like to make them 
searchable or accessible from anywhere.
Use a Task Manager
In Step 4, I talked about how you should plan your week out on Sundays. Well, 
there’s a prerequisite to being able to do that effectively - and that’s to make 
sure you have a system that captures tasks you need to complete.
You probably already knew this, so at this point you’re asking:
“What’s the best to-do app out there?”
I’m gonna make like a smarmy politician and give you an answer that sort of 
dodges the question: The best to-do app is the one that works well for you.
Dodgy, yes… but it’s true. I went through four years of college constantly 
reading app review blogs, looking for the absolute best task manager. I figured 
there must be one to rule them all. What I’ve learned now, though, is that we’re 
all a bunch of weirdos with non-robotic brains that work in funny ways. 
Some people might find a simple notebook works best for them. Others may 
want to stick to paper, but need more organization a la a system like Bullet 
Journal. Some are like me and want to use a computer-based system, but then 
are faced with so many choices:
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Wunderlist
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Remember the Milk
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Google Tasks
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Todoist
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Producteev
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Omnifocus
•
Asana
…the list goes on and on. My suggestion would be to try a few out and see what 
works best for you. Maybe even try a few unconventional ones - I’ve seen 
people turn Trello (a project management app) into individual daily task 
managers. Some people find the simple to-do column in Habitica works well 

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(it’s not enough for me though). 
The one thing you must do, however, is actually use one. Don’t think you can 
get by just trying to remember everything you need to do; stuff will inevitably 
fall through the cracks. Remember, your brain is for having ideas, not holding 
them.
So, given that I’ve acknowledged the individual nature of task management, the 
app that my weirdo brain currently likes best is called