My Study Life - School Planner 4+

Helped me so much!

I’ve always had issues with time management and procrastination, not to mention just forgetting about assignments and tests. I’ve tried for years to use a physical planner but it’s never worked out and I’d always abandon them after a day or two. So far I’ve only been using this app for a couple weeks but it’s completely changed the way I go about schoolwork! Because it’s online it’s always available and easily accessible, and I love being able to get reminders when I have a due date coming up. I can input as much information as I need about an assignment as well without running out of room, which was another problem I had with physical planners. With the different tabs I can see just my “tasks” or assignments coming up, or I can look at my calendar tab and see all my classes, exams, holidays and assignments for the month. It took me a few days to figure out how to fully use the website/app, but it’s much easier to navigate than some other websites I’ve used.
Honest opinion, I’ve never been this excited about anything to do with school, but now it’s almost kinda fun to schedule all my classes, tasks and exams and to mark them as completed when I’m done. I feel so accomplished and I really feel like it’s in part thanks to this program. Maybe I’ll be back with an update when the semester is over. Anyways, I absolutely recommend!

It’s one of the best study apps I have but..

I love this app. It keeps me on track of things and allows me to know when my classes are about to end. I like the slide bar a lot because it helps me organize which things I need to do first based on completion. I wish that this app would remind you after your school day has ended to add any new assignments. I tend to forget at least once a week so I would find this incredibly helpful and for those who wouldn’t want it, there could be a option to turn it off. Another tool that would make this app better would be to add groups. Some teachers use this site as a reference for students but it becomes a bit difficult for these teachers to email them stuff like this. I think groups would allow more people to get on top of their school work. And this would help students only too. They could create groups with peers in their classes so that if someone didn’t hear the assignment, they could access it easily. I do this a lot and constantly have to get it from friends. I give this app a four instead of a five just because of this

Downhill plummet

I’ve been using this app to plan my school assignments for a literal decade! I started using it in middle school and I’m now in my senior year of college. It was amazing!

But this last update made it so unusable that I switched to a different planner app (Power Planner). With the new update, it’s incredibly difficult to manage the subjects you’re taking unless they divide into nice English, Math, Science, History labels. You can’t view a task unless you go to the calendar, which defaults to showing the day instead of the week or month, and scroll to the day where you made the task due. If you’re trying to put in deadlines from a syllabus, this means you could be scrolling for literal months just to make sure you actually created the assignment. The tasks show up on the calendar like classes, making it really difficult to tell what’s actually a class and what’s a homework assignment. It’s super confusing to even create a task to begin with! In what world does it make sense to default to the creation of a class rather than a task? It genuinely goes class -> exam -> task. That’s the opposite of the order that would make sense to use most frequently! The tabs of the old app used to give you a nice, legible dashboard that told you what tasks were coming up. Now, it’s impossible to tell what the tasks even are or when they’re due. I’m incredibly disappointed in how much they ruined this app when it’s been functioning amazingly well for years!!

Developer Response ,

Thank you for being such a dedicated user of My Study Life over the years! It’s amazing to hear that the app has been with you since middle school, helping you stay organized all the way through to your senior year of college.

I’m sorry to hear that the recent update hasn’t met your expectations. I want to mention that custom subjects are still an option, so you can label them in a way that suits your courses better.

Your feedback on the task creation process and calendar view is really valuable, and I’ve passed it along to our team. We’re continuously working on improving the app, and insights like yours help guide those improvements.

If you have any other suggestions or need assistance with anything, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us at care@mystudylife.com. We’d love to help make the app work better for you. 💙