Desktop Apps

As someone who spends a *lot* of time online, especially with the current half-online schooling system my school uses, I thought it would be helpful to share some apps, websites and extensions that make my learning experience a lot easier! I’ve seen a lot of master posts like this by other studyblrs, but I often get overwhelmed by the many options they recommend for each function; so I thought I’d share the ones that I find work the best for me :)

desktop apps

Spotify - for music & podcasts

Drawboard PDF - helpful for annotating and reading PDFs!

Grammarly - great for correcting English grammar!

Virtual Cottage - very cute lil productivity tracker; plays lofi & rain sounds, kind of like forest but cuter! Has a full-screen option.

Discord - ok this isn’t a study app, but given that we’re at home a lot of clubs at my school use servers on Discord to organize & hold meetings!

websites

sleep calculator - helps you figure out when you should go to bed

CBC Gem - has a ton of free Shakespeare performances in full HD

duolingo - free language-learning website! 

conjugemos - Literal life-saver for learning Spanish grammar

wordreference - Great language dictionary/conjugation resource

unsplash - free HD pictures

free harvard courses - what it says on the tin!

chrome extensions

coffeelings - basically a “pixel a day” bujo page that you don’t have to draw out by hand!

smallPDF - file conversion & compression

Forest - productivity

Reading List - helps you bookmark webpages & articles to read later

LanguageTool - grammar and language correction in multiple languages

Grammarly - grammar and language correction

MyBib - citation generator

PrintWhatYouLike - print the content of a webpage w/o ads

SleepMode - set your webpage to close at a certain time

Outliner -  simplified, clean outlines & annotation features

WHA New Tab - clean new tab page with clock/quotes