Studying with a partner has multiple benefits: it keeps you accountable, helps you stay focused and splits the workload. For the upcoming school year, you don’t even have to look for one – it’s already ready and waiting, and it’s called Evernote. Use the app’s AI tools to take better notes, so you can finish your work faster and get back to your day.

What we love: Hit record at the start of a lecture and Evernote will transcribe everything for you and generate an AI summary of the key points with a tap. No more frantic scribbling trying to keep up with your professor! And, once class is over, have the AI Assistant explain difficult concepts and turn your notes into polished study materials for you.

Don’t miss: Set up notebooks for different classes, use tags to find anything in seconds and save research articles and websites directly to your notes. You can also edit PDFs, sketch diagrams and access everything across all your devices, so your notes are always ready when you are.