

Love to-do lists? This app lets you organize all of your tasks into one place, set priority levels for each, and break down your long-term assignments into more manageable parts. iStudiez can sync with your calendar, alert you when an assignment is almost due, and help you visualize your week-which is great if you tend to over-commit. This is an excellent tool for prioritizing your assignments and keeping track of your schedule. You’ll need a stylus, but they’re very affordable Miss the days of scribbling notes in a notebook instead of typing them on your computer? Penultimate is an easy-to-use handwriting app for iPad, so you’ll get the experience of writing on paper with the flexibility of using a tablet. You can use it to record parts of a lecture or ideas for a research paper.

To get the most out of your mobile device while in school, check out these great apps, which helped me stay organized and on top of things while writing my dissertation:Įvernote is great for syncing your notes (think reading summaries, annotated bibliographies, meeting proceedings) across devices, but it's also an audio recorder.
