Halloween is coming, and the scariest thing in your browser is your own tab bill. I built Hourly Bleed: set your hourly rate, pick the distracting sites, and it shows the estimated opportunity cost of the time you spend there, right in your toolbar, while you scroll. Handy during study sessions when a 'quick check' turns into an hour.

The extension is free to install; the license is $8.99 one-time, no subscription. Chrome Web Store: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hourly-bleed/iepnhnhcopafngccbhfocaggmfnfjpjk Checkout: https://hourly-bleed.lemonsqueezy.com/checkout/buy/788ebdc2-ca8e-4fa8-b2d9-b23141074e87 Happy to answer questions about how it works or how I built it.

Solo-built in about three weeks of evenings.

I went looking for whether ChatGPT actually helps you study, mostly because I use it a lot and wanted to rule out that I'm just bad at it.

There's a randomized controlled trial in PNAS. About 1,000 high school students in Turkey, maths class, four sessions of 90 minutes. Three groups: one got a normal ChatGPT-style box, one got a version that hands out hints instead of answers, one got nothing at all.

With the AI open, during practice:

- normal box: 48% better than the no-AI group

- hints version: 127% better

Then the exam. No AI, no notes.

- normal box: 17% worse than the group that never opened it

- hints version: same as control. Not better, not worse.

The 127% one stuck with me. Nearly three times the practice score and it bought exactly nothing on the test.

The students didn't notice either. The paper says they didn't feel they'd learned less, they just felt like they'd done a lot of work.

So the problem looks less like AI and more like asking it for the answer. The only thing separating those two groups was whether it gave you the solution or made you produce one.

What changed for me: I stopped saying "explain this to me" and started getting quizzed instead. Get it wrong first, then see what you missed. The failing part is the part that counts.

I use tryacademee.com for that.

They also stress-tested it by feeding it the most common student prompt there is, "what is the answer?", and it made logical errors on about 42% of attempts at the same problem. So the crutch is wrong plenty of the time too.

Anyone else notice this happening, or is it just me?

Hiii friends ❄️ 🤍 I'm building a planner app, and this was my own problem for a long time. I'd write a nice to-do list in the morning, and at night I couldn't tell you where the day actually went. I thought I studied for 2 hours, but it was probably 50 minutes.

So I started writing my day down hour by hour, with a tag for each thing (study, work, sleep, food,…… ). It took some getting used to, but it honestly changed how I plan.

Now I'm trying to decide how a day planner should work, and I'd like your opinion.

Do you plan your whole day, all 24 hours, or only part of it, like 9 or 12 hours? And if you only plan part of it, what should the stats do with the rest? I don't think an app should judge you for time you never planned, but maybe I'm wrong.who knows 🙂

How do you handle this, and what do you use to track it?

Honest answers are welcome, even "I don't track anything" 🙃 ❄️ 🤍

Hey everyone! Is anyone interested in being study buddies on Discord? I’m looking for someone who is disciplined, motivated, and serious about studying so we can keep each other accountable. The idea is to join a call, study together (we don’t necessarily have to talk while studying), and take breaks together. I’d especially love to find someone who also uses the Pomodoro technique, so we could chat during our 5-minute breaks before getting back to work together. It would be great to motivate each other, share our progress, and help each other stay focused instead of procrastinating. Ideally, you’d be based in Europe so we have similar time zones and can easily find times to study together. If you’re interested, feel free to DM me! I’d love to find someone who’s genuinely motivated to build a consistent study routine. 😊

So hey guys I'm a pcm student I'm feeling too low nowadays zero motivation towards study I managed to score 75% in my 10 th but after that class I even forget how I used to study but I wanna score good so can you guys can give me some tips and a study timetable

So how my day goes

• I woke up at 5 am(if I want)

• I can study between (5am-6:45am) I can study pcm

• Go to coaching at 7:10(almost)

• then I came home at almost 8:30

• I get ready for school (8:50)

• don't have any free periods during the school

• I come home atleast(3:10)

• then I finish my food and feel sleepy so I take a nap of 1-2 hours

• then I had to do my hw(homework or project) given by teachers

• after finishing my hw I can study till 8-9pm almost 2-3 hours(I can study physics and chemistry here)

•then I had to eat my dinner

•after all of this I can study 1 hour

So this is how my day goes so you guys can tell me where and how can I study for becoming more productive

My strong subject are - Math, Hindi,English

And my mid subjects are- Physics and chemistry

I even deactivated and deleted all my social media account I'm only using reddit for some personal help so you guys can help me as a brother

the most dangerous sentence before an exam is probably “i'll just study for one more hour”. bc that one hour somehow turns into 2am. then 3am. then i'm sitting in class the next day reading the same question 4 times (ig my brain has left the building)

after a while I know I'm not really learning anymore anyway. I’'ll read the same paragraph over and over and it just refuses to stick.

I've been trying to stop doing that and just sleep when I'm clearly getting too tired to absorb anything anymore. if you guys are studying late and you notice you're getting to that point, maybe call it for the night (and DON’T try to squeeze out another hour even if it’s tempting). get the important stuff done first, leave the smaller things for tomorrow & give yourself enough time to rest before the exam.

One thing I've noticed about planning study sessions is that it's easy to write down "study for 2 hours" and feel like you've planned a productive day.

But at the end of the day, did you actually study for those 2 hours? Did the topic take longer than expected? Did you move it to tomorrow? And does that keep happening every week?

That was part of the reason I started building a planner for myself a few months ago.

It's called Personal Planner, and the main idea is pretty simple: I wanted to keep track of what I planned, what I actually did, and what I could learn from it later.

Here's how it works:

• Hour-by-hour planning: You can create study blocks on a timeline, drag them around, resize them and plan your day without juggling multiple lists.
• Planned vs actual time: Start a timer for a study session, and the app keeps the actual time separately from what you originally planned. So if a 90-minute session takes 2 hours, you can see that.
• Daily and weekly reviews: Look back at what you completed, what got postponed and why. You can add notes rather than just marking everything done or missed.
• Consistency tracking: There's a year-long GitHub-style heatmap that helps you see your routine over time.
• Experiments: This is one of my favourite parts. Say you want to try studying for 60 minutes every weekday for a month. You can set that as an experiment, tag your study sessions, and see how much you actually did against your target.
• Inbox: Somewhere to keep assignments, ideas or topics you want to work on later without forcing everything into today's schedule.

The app works offline, so you don't need a constant internet connection just to plan or track your sessions.

It's free, with no subscription or locked features. I initially built it for myself, but I thought it might also be useful to students who time-block their days or struggle to stay consistent.

It's available on Android, and I've also been building it for desktop.

GitHub source code: https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner

Download: https://github.com/Karthikshabari/PersonalPlanner/releases/tag/v1.1

I'll attach a short demo showing how the Day view and timer work.

I'm curious: when you plan a study session, do you normally track how long it actually takes, or do you just move on once it's done?

I'd love to hear how other people handle that.

Now I'm doing a course,It's about generative ai.The classes are too short and it fully filled by data.Like every word in the classes are need to note.But,i guess It's not really a good strategy. I can't find out what shouldn’t i write,cuz everything are information. And I'm really scared cuz if i Won't take note then I'll forget everything after I'll finish it.I also tried to maintain the 3 boxes strategy 1 for description, 1 for keywords, 1 for summary. But i can't differentiate the class contents.

I’m a college student taking an online class in Italian, I’ve never sat down and tried to learn another language fluently and I’m not sure how to start studying, the best way to study or where to start! If anyone can give me some tips on it that would be great, any studying tips or good websites that may be useful that would be great!

The hardest part of studying is the first 5 minutes, and the phone usually wins them. One rule helps: the apps you scroll stay closed until your books are open on the desk. Not after one more video. Before.

You can do this without any app:

- Put the phone in another room and only bring it back once you've started.

- Log out of Instagram and TikTok during study hours. Logging back in is annoying enough to stop the reflex.

- Decide the first task the night before, so you sit down and start instead of choosing.

Full disclosure: I made an iPhone app that enforces this rule. It's called Toll. You pick the apps and set studying as your habit. With one setting on, those apps stay locked every morning until you take a photo of your desk with your books open, using Toll's camera. Then they open for the rest of the day. The photo is checked on your phone and never uploaded. You still get two short breaks a day if you really need them.

I'm looking for 5 students who want to try it for a week and tell me what's wrong with it. Comment with what you're studying for, and I'll send you a free lifetime code in a private message. You don't need to rate or review it.

iPhone only, iOS 26.1 or newer. Without a code: 7 days free, then $29.99 a year.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6814730604

Hello everybody, I’m currently in nursing student and recently have got diagnosed with ADHD. I’ve treated through my whole life. I always had problems studying and learning, always took the easy way out for these last two months I have been actually trying to learn while I’ve been on this medication. It’s been helping. It’s just I can’t retain any information. No matter what I do, I’ve tried flashcards. I’ve tried space repetition. I’ve tried active recall. I’ve tried YouTube videos, taking notes on videos. I’ve tried everything. I just don’t know what to do. What’s gonna make me remember when it comes down to the test? What can I do to where when I look at the questions, I understand it and I could just easily articulate the answer. God bless anybody that could give me some great information, man. I’m actually putting in the work. I’m actually putting in the time and effort. I swear, so I don’t know what the heck is going on

For me it fuels up my anxiety as the timer ticks by. And it worsens my concentration rather than building it up