Throughout my life I have been a highly disorganized person and especially throughout high school.
I was the kid who scrambled through his locker looking for notes I would ultimately never find.
I had my own style of organization and academically it worked for the most part.
Unfortunately, when I reached college, this habit of shoving papers into my backpack wouldn’t last and when it came to finals my freshman semester, I was in a mound of notes with nothing but a hope and a prayer.
Safe to say I had a moment of crisis as the biology notes I swore I took four months ago were nowhere to be found. While I thought they’d be in my backpack, they were probably in the trash. Since I have always been one who had to learn the hard way, let me save you the struggle and give you my new tech savvy tips of storing notes, dates and other tools to help streamline your college career.
My first and most used app is Google Calendar.
Storing dates and times is easy when you have constant reminders through the app.
The calendar has a simple display that easily allows you to store due dates for assignments and meeting times for clubs.
Going a bit more in depth with a to-do list style planner will also help you keep your day-to-day tasks organized. Todoist is a free and easy-to-set-up app that I highly recommend.
The app organizes and schedules your day out for you and even gives you tips to get the most out of your day.
Finally, with note taking I use Evernote.
Evernote is another free note taking tool that easily organizes everything you write down and can highlight, create annotations and link references.
While I am still not on Marie Kondos’s level of organizing, I am a far cry from the tornado of notes and papers I was those early years of college.
