Useful Apps & Websites for Students!

Heya fonzies!

I know how annoying it can be when we just want things to be simplified in our busy student lives. But guess what? I’ve compiled a list of useful apps that even I make use of these days!

I hope these apps/websites help you guys in your journey!

1.

READER VIEW

Here is a chrome extension which enables you to highlight and edit the online resources directly!! WHAT? I CAN DO THAT?! YES, you can!

Hop on to “Reader View’s” website !

· Strips away clutter like buttons, background images, and changes the page's text size, contrast and layout for better readability

· You can change color, background-color, font-size, font-family and width of the reader view.

Features: -> Remove distraction -> Read in fullscreen mode -> Remove advertisements -> Save in HTML format -> Print document -> Read content using a powerful Text to Speech (TTS) engine -> Edit HTML content (live editor)

-> Email document (with title, body, and reference to the original document)

-> Correctly display mathematical formulas (MathJax equations are Supported)

-> Highlight selected text

-> Move to the next and previous pages

-> Keyboard shortcuts for almost all actions

-> Resize images on the design-mode

-> Display DOI (Digital Object Identifier) details

-> Display publish date

-> Add persistent sticky notes

Here is a short video you can refer to for directions!

Click Me

2.

FLOW

Flow is a minimalistic pomodoro based app focus timer. Increase your productivity and reduce stress at the same time. I think the best thing I love about flow is how they provide me with motivational quotes every single time my timer stops. It gives me motivation to keep going and keep trying.

3.

GRAMMARLY

Grammarly is an online chrome extension which, provides you with real time grammar correcting, easy to understand, highly accurate!

Infact, You’re able to select your preferred language, turn it off on certain websites, as well as add new words you use often to the dictionary.

It is also Simple to use just like Microsoft Word and Google Doc’s spellcheck, Grammarly will underline incorrect words or grammar and show you what to replace it with and why if you simply hover over it.

4.

LOONA

As a student, balancing life filled with ample of assignments from time to time, examinations club and societies sure does leave us sleep deprived. But sometimes, even after being so mentally tired, you aren’t able to sleep? Same mess here.

HOWEVER, the Loona app, helps you calm your anxiety and lower your stress. It even gives you different suggestions of sounds and sleep scapes to cater to what you need in that moment. The sleep scapes gives you simple tasks to complete and relax your mind to which might teach you guys on some things u never knew about!

It majorly focuses on putting you to sleep and clearing your mind as well as relaxing you to de-stress.

5.

GITMIND

In the Gitmind app, your thoughts evolve like an expanding universe. Capture, structure and visualize ideas with mind maps, concept maps, flowcharts, organizational charts, fishbone diagrams, UML diagrams and more.

GitMind helps organize your inner universe. I mean who doesn’t love digital, aesthetic, organized and easily accessible notes anywhere at anytime?

SIGN ME UP!

6.

REFLECTLY

Reflectly is a app journal utilizing artificial intelligence to help you structure and reflect upon your daily thoughts and problems. Use this as your personal journal to jot down your thoughts and track the wellbeing of your mental health.

7.

1 SECOND EVERYDAY

The application allows the user to record one second of video every day and then chronologically edits them together into a single film. If you are someone like me who loves catching videos and photographs of my life, TRUST ME. You will love it!

8.

NCBI

If you are in need of research papers, The National Center for Biotechnology Information website advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.

9.

GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Needing any journal articles or research papers for college? Hop on to google scholar for more!

10.

DUOLINGO

Wanting to learn a new language but classes are a little too pricy? Duolingo brings learning new languages to you for free! Infact, I learned a little Korean here too hehe. Users learn using "trees" tailored to their target language, with specific "skills" to practice vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation using spaced repetition.

11.

MY STUDY LIFE

My Study Life enables you to keep track of all your classes, tasks, assignments and exams anywhere, on any device. MSL will organize your academic life for you, ensuring that you never miss a piece of homework, or forget a lesson. Better organization will allow you to be a more productive student, creating more time for you to spend on the things that matter to you most.

12.

NOTION

Do you love organising your schedules, thoughts, projects, and information but hate jotting them down everyday? Notion brings to you their very own digital journal where you get to track your habits, set daily reminders and meet your due dates in an aesthetic and super organised way! The amount of LOVE I have for this app…ENDLESS.

13.

FLIPD

Work together in public study rooms and clubs to feel motivated and supported by a positive community. 👋Understand how you're spending your time and feel motivated with features that visualize your progress. Choose from customizable task timers for solo or group studying, and keep track of specific goals. Sounds fun doesn’t it? You HAVE to try it!

With that, that would be most of the useful apps I use from time to time to help keep myself more organised, meet set deadlines, relax and enjoy throughout this journey of a student. Hope these help you guys!

Written by,

Praveena a/p Chandran

The Fonz Content Creation Team.