#study app

[belovedapollo]

can everyone reblog this and add their favorite journal/study/productivity apps?

I start with mine:

Notion: for tracking movies/books, creating lists and goals

Tastify: a little room where you can add the things that you loved during the month (such as music, movies, books and more)

Repov: journaling app in which you can upload pictures and create cards, you can also make wishlists and write reviews

Folderly: create folders with tasks you want to finish, you can also create a student ID and add your schedule

GeulBox: add your favorite articles and quotes from movies, books and more

MyRoutine: habit tracker

Mooda: mood tracker, you can add pictures and write about your day

Talking Potatoes: daily challenge to keep up with things you want to do on daily

note: I am not sponsored by any of these apps, some of them I downloaded recently and still need to get the hang of it, I use an iPhone and can’t guarantee that all the apps are also on android

[bieups]

This is a really good app for TOPIK prep, or for people who just want a daily study app! It’s called FunPik and is free on both iOS & android!

PROS:

Mock tests (reading section only) for both TOPIK I & II with a built-in timer

Daily challenges; perfect if you just want to do a few minutes of studying without wasting time deciding what & how to study

3 different games: identify a photo, choose the missing word in a sentence, and unscramble a sentence (honestly the timer on these can make it pretty difficult, but it's a good goal to work towards)

Explanations!!! When you check which questions you got wrong, there's a short explanation about why the correct answer is correct (seriously, why doesn't every TOPIK app have this?)

The youtube channel...okay, technically not part of the app itself, but it links to the 펀픽 channel where you can watch short lectures about how to answer different questions and other study tips. The focused lectures are a more recent addition, so I hope they'll be adding more videos in the future~

Analysis of your progress, including how well you do on different types of questions, an estimation of how close you are to your target level, and how you spend your time in the app

Gameification for motivation~ Get those coins and study streaks! The coins are used to buy "historical relics" which gives you a random photo & description of various landmarks and things around Korea. Adds a little bit of history & culture learning!

CONS

I wish it had a friends list to add to the game aspect and be more competitive/supportive. You can see a ranking list of all users, but I don't care about random strangers lol

The sentence games are too hard for me (not enough time to think, need to be able to immediately answer if you want to finish/do well) and there's no way to adjust the level or turn off the timer. I don't know if the game levels change if you set your target TOPIK level lower

No listening section ㅠㅠ

No writing, but that’s kinda understandable since it'd need a person to score your writing

Overall, I highly recommend checking it out! If you're preparing for the TOPIK and need the extra nudge to study a bit more every day, this app would be perfect. And even if you aren't planning to take the exam anytime soon, this would be a quick & easy way to study during your commute or before bed!

[artnamjooning]

I’m going to try switching from Forest to Flora this week. I mostly want to plant more real trees from studying and I like the tracker feature and cute trees, but I’m going to miss my TinyTAN in Forest. 😭 I might still use Forest for my regular hobbies so I get my TinyTAN fix lol.

Idk if you’ve used both, what do you think of each?

[deliquesblog]

exams exams.

[alexacademic]

December 16, 2023

When your life consisted of fighting for two steps forward, that were always followed by one step back, you begin to feel weak and easily overpowered.

Success begins to feel like heroin coursing through my veins, awakening parts of me I forgot existed.

I told you to fight with me, not against me. Yet I feel no remorse over walking away, no matter what shape that took.

I am just recognizable enough that I know a piece of you will always wonder what could have been.

I am just enough of a mystery that the ghosts of my past will wish they stuck around to meet this me.

This me is energetic, confident, prepared, strong, loving and peaceful. This me doesn’t need you.

This me doesn’t need anything, I am everything.

- written in June of 2023

[iwannaliveacutesylife]

Such a cute motivating otome pomodoro app I discovered today ♥︎ (ﾉ´∀`) !! You guys should try it! I recommend it a lot!

App name : LoveTodo

[sleepyarystudies]

6/100 days of productivity

Today's forest cause idk what else to post! I've basically been studying all day cause I had school and 3 hours of tutoring on top of the 5 hours of studying on my own. It's currently very late but I feel content with my work today.

Little side note, but if you've been considering trying out forest I'd 100% recommend you do! I've even bought the premium (which was just a one time 5€ purchase!) and as you can tell I'm just in love with the app. This is not an ad even though it sounds like one lol (as if any company would ever pay tumblr blogs to post about them instead of youtubers or tiktokers)

[1hot-mess-express1]

Kind of a weird thing but if anyone wants to be study buddies I’d literally faint 💖🥺

This is the app I used and I made this group for anyone interested, not just for school but like writing n stuff too

Academic comeback here we gooooooo!

[goldensunset]

i love comparing pokédex entries for the same mon between different games bc almost all of them will be very brief, matter-of-fact, purely scientific without any first person pronouns or personal information about the author. and then you get to the legends arceus entries and laventon’s writing stuff like ‘ngl i still don’t understand this species’ ‘i tried petting this pokémon once and it bit me’ ‘i live in fear of this thing’ ‘man i miss galar. who said that’

[entaberp]

It benefits experiential learning to have a National Education Policy

Experiential learning involves activities that engage learners in direct experience of the subject matter. It is based on the concept that learning occurs through reflection on doing. It is best supported by an environment that allows exploration, experimentation, and practice. It is a key component of the National Education Policy.

Experiential learning can benefit students as it allows them to gain real-world knowledge and build skills applicable to their future career. It can also help students develop a more meaningful connection to their studies, increasing engagement and motivation. Additionally, experiential learning provides students with the opportunity to practice and refine their communication, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills in a safe environment. This can help to prepare them for the challenges of the workplace and give them a competitive edge.

Experiential learning also encourages students to become more independent learners, with the ability to think critically and creatively and to draw their own conclusions. This can help to create more engaged and self-motivated learners.

[idontmindifuforgetme]

[artnamjooning]

When Yeolpumta goes down and you’re like, “😱 how am I going to know someone studying for NEET or 수능 is doing better than I am???”

(Fr you entrance exam folks both keep me humble and inspire me to work hard and I hope you all get the results you want)

[maiarosa]

hit hard.

[why-the-heck-not]

today very much wasn’t as cozy as the pictures of it, but let’s pretend it was

[destiel-wings]

Dean Winchester & hug dynamic analysis

I was thinking about how whenever Dean hugs someone he's almost always the one hugging the other and how this links to his psychological trauma of always being the caretaker of people, making himself bigger to protect them.

Because that's how Dean sees himself, as a shield for others, and then I thought about how Cas actually is the shield, and he's HIS SHIELD, specifically, the only one who's really there to protect HIM, which is why it hits so much when we see this:

The way Cas wraps his arms around him, trying to protect him with his whole body--that he'd use as a shield and give up in a second if he could spare him from any pain and save him.

(for context: Dean was about to go use the soul bomb on Amara there, it was a suicide mission)

Bobby is another one that hits, he hugs him as the big hugger because he's his father, he loves him and he's actually here to protect him (and Dean LETS him -barely, but he lets him *and Cas* - in a way that he doesn't let Sam)

I watched a compilation of Sam & Dean hugs to check if i was right about it, but it's almost always Dean the big hugger with Sam, except when he's about to die or Sam sees him alive again after losing him.

Even then, Dean mostly tries to hug Sam as the big hugger anyway, with at least one arm, like a way to comfort him, making him feel protected, like his body language is saying "I'm here, I'm okay, I'm still strong, i can still protect you" (because their real father failed and Dean thinks it's his job).

He rarely lets himself be the little one hugged with Sam, unless he's barely conscious. Which is why it kills me so much more now that in this moment (s14, when Dean was going to lock himself in the Ma'lak box cause he was possessed by Michael) and Sam has a desperate breakdown and punches him (to stop him) he forcefully hugs him as the little hugger, the way Dean always kept him, like a way of saying "I still need you to protect me, please don't do this to yourself".

In the scene below he gives Sam his blessing to do a dangerous (possibly suicidal) mission, and one of his arms is down, but the other one tries to stay up--he's forcing himself to do it and he struggles because he still wants to protect him, but (as the seasons progress) he slowly becomes more prone to let go.

So in this view the hug dynamic becomes an indicator of how Dean sees Sam (and himself) and his protector role, how adult and self sufficient he considers Sam, and how much he lets people around him take care of him, lowering his walls and letting himself be hugged.

This is also why i think hugs from characters like Garth or Charlie are so special, because they're just like us: they see Dean and they just know that he needs to be hugged a lot, and that he's not used to it, so they just go for it-- and it's so normal and kind and spontaneous that Dean's just not used to it-- he doesn't know how to respond (especially with Garth, at the beginning, but as the seasons progress, he learns to, and he even initiates the hug eventually).

I love the hugs where they're 50/50 (one arm up, one arm down both), feels like they're equals, both taking care of each other. I feel like with Sam and Dean, this indicates a healthier dynamic, because Dean lets go a little of the role that was imposed to him and manages to see Sam as the strong individual that he is. But the same applies to 50/50 hugs with other characters, like with Cas, where I feel like it testifies how equals they feel in terms of being fighters, there's a show of respect of each other's strength that transpires by the gesture (which is even more astounding considering that Cas is literally a powerful angel).

And just to end on a destiel note, I'd like to note the possessiveness and protectiveness of Dean (rightfully so) whenever he finds Cas after he thought he had lost him, and how that translates into his body/hug language: