| Nikita Haupt February 1 | I have been a student for most of my life. I started school in 1994 and since then, I have progressed from primary to secondary, from high school to college, and from college to university. After completing my master's degree in applied CS, I decided to pursue a PhD at the same university. During my 10 years in Germany, where I did my master's and my dissertation, I encountered various apps. Some of them I only heard about, some of them I used briefly, and some of them I still use regularly. Some of the many apps that I used did not have much impact in my life and therefore, I used them for a pretty brief period of time. However, there were apps that changed my entire perspective towards time management, taking notes, writing papers and summaries, and most importantly keeping my work safe. Without any further ado, here are three apps that I recommend for any kind of student. - Quire: First and foremost, you need to schedule your time. Time is everything and repeat it after me. Time is indeed everything. You need to manage your time such that you do not go crazy and overwhelmed by the things, lectures, exercises, people, and everything going around you. Quire is an easy and a wonderful app to begin with! It is a task management and collaboration tool designed to help teams organize and prioritize their projects. It offers features like nested task lists, real-time collaboration, and progress tracking to facilitate project planning and execution. Quire aims to streamline workflows and improve productivity for you. I have been using it since a long time and it never fails to surprise me, even remind me of my pending deadlines. 😛
- Dropbox: Sync, sync, and sync. You want all your data to be synced and backed up. I have heard terrible stories of people losing their entire thesis because their laptop broke down and they did not have a back-up. Do not do that. You do not want to be that. I am assuming that you are having a google account, and if I am correct, download Dropbox onto your laptop and your mobile phone and make a folder where you keep all your essential notes, exam papers to practice, exercises, and most importantly, the thesis. It is a kind of personal cloud, that enables you to store files online, share them with others, and synchronize them across multiple devices. It is really simple, user friendly, and offers reliable performance, catering you with possibilities for storing documents, photos, and other data securely in the cloud.
- Miro: And then you come to the master of all apps that allows you to make images, figures, tables, diagrams, take notes, share with your friends or colleagues, work parallelly on projects and many more on one single place. I was introduced or I kind of saw Miro during a meeting and I was blown away. I began using it in 2020, and I have not left it ever since. The best part of Miro, in my opinion, is it allows you to extract your work as pdf or image. The image resolution is so high that you can zoom in your image in your thesis/report to 10 times and it still won't pixelate. In short, Miro is an online collaborative whiteboarding platform that enables you to work with your team effectively, regardless of the location. It offers an intuitive, visual interface where users can brainstorm, plan projects, design workflows, and conduct meetings. Miro's features include sticky notes, drawing tools, templates, and real-time collaboration, making it a popular choice for remote teams, designers, and agile project managers aiming to foster creativity and streamline communication.
Remember, this blog post is not sponsored! I truly believe these apps have changed my game while doing my Ph.D. and MS before that. |
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