Back to School Productivity Roundup
By Samuel Guzman | August 22nd, 2007 at 03:04 pm ET
With school starting for some, and right around the corner for others, it is important to get all your digital data organized and stay productive. Here is a list of tools that can help. * Indicates a recommended product.
Note Taking
Notecentric: A site dedicated to note taking and not much more. Has facebook integration.
Stud.icio.us: A suite of tools dedicated to helping students say organized. Includes, notes, to-dos, upcoming events, document manager (.doc, etc.), Google, Wikipedia, and Facebook integration.
Stud.icio.us also has a beta version, beta.dicio.us, which is currently available for testing.
MySchoolog: An advanced suite of tools to help students stay organized. Features: grad calculation, graphing, and average calculation; to do’s with email reminders; rss integration; schedule creation; periodic table of elements; built in calculator; conversion tables; file organization; note taking; and more.
Notely: Note taking, calendar, to-do list, task list and an upload area. Facebook application also.
Notemesh: Collaborative note taking
mynoteIT: Note taking, calendar, to-do list, assignment tracking, schedule manager, document upload, school networking, friends, sharing, and more.
Study and Research
CueFlash: Online flash cards
rememberize: ‘Rememberize uses flashcards with a Leitner-style learning schedule to help you remember all the things that you wished you could - dates, places, events, they’re all no problem’
Footnote.com: Online access to many historical documents
Dictionary.com: Excellent online multi-dictionary with built in citation tools
eNotes: study guides, lesson plans, and other reference material in various academic areas
Word Count: Free word count for writing papers
eServer: A free, online collection of literature on all different topics
Bartleby: The ultimate literature resource
Luminarium: An anthology of english literature
SparkNotes: Commentaries on great works of literature
OttoBib: Bibliography made easy
EasyBib: Online bibliography
BibMe: More online bibliography
NoodleTools: Bibliography, notecards, and more
Book Buying and Selling
Books for School: Buy and sell college textbooks (Canada based)
BookFinder: Compare prices on 125 million new and used books
ACollegeTrade: Post and search for books for free
BooksPrice: Compare textbooks and save money
TextbookFlix: The best way to rent textbooks online
Pazap: Students buy sell and trade cheap books
eCampus: Cheap new and used textbooks
More productivity and organization tools
CentralDesktop: The best way to collaborate online, create documents, and spreadsheets.
Scrybe: The ultimate online/offline organizer
Google Docs and Spreadsheets: Online word processing
Google Calendar: An excellent online calendar
SnapPages: Beautiful flash calendar, photo gallery, and social networking
InstaCalc: An advanced and useful online calculator
LooseStitch: A well designed outlining tool
iOutliner: Another well designed outlining tool
Writer: A zero discration word processing environment
on August 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
if you use google calendar then you should check out goosync and calgoo. ive been using them both and had good results. goosync lets you sync with your mobile, and calgoo lets you take the google cal offline - as well as some contact / outlook sync options.
food for thought,
on August 22nd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
www.textbookflix.com sounds really sweet!
on August 24th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Instacalc is really useful, especially if you are an engineering student. It can remember values assigned to symbols, you can create your own customized calculator and also link to it and share it with others.
on August 30th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
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I’d add Wrike http://www.wrike.com/ It’s a very good tool for group projects and collaborative work. The cool thing is that you can invite as many people as you want and everybody will have free accounts. You can collaborate with people from different areas and even countries.