Jake’s Life

Now that I am finishing college, I see so many things that I wish I either had or knew about when I began my studies. When I started

Complete Student Planners

Notely: “Notely is a collection of online tools designed to help all you drunken students out there to organize your busy lives. whether you’re in University, College or High School Notely has the tools to help you get organized.”

Notely keeps a calendar, courses, notes, to-do lists, tasks, notebooks, links, contacts, assignments, and friends all in one place for students to access anytime. It also lets you upload files and keep them handy.The Dashboard page keeps you updated on any assignments coming up, overdue tasks, etc.

mynoteIT: mynoteIT is similar to Notely, although I think Notely is more pleasing on the eyes and loads faster. It’s tag based. According to the web site you can:

• • Ask the community your dire question at the message boards.
  • Access your notes on your mobile phone via mynoteIT Mobile.
  • Upload Word and OpenOffice documents, images of scanned notes and audio notes.
  • Keep track of all your upcoming assignments and get them done with your to-do list.
  • Use our sophisticated WYSIWYG editor to easily take, edit and store your notes online.
  • Instantly search your notes or the mynoteIT community notes, and learn something new.
  • Create a bookmark list of the most helpful and useful notes you find on mynoteIT.
  • Join or create class groups or school groups so you’re never out of the loop.
  • View all your upcoming assignments on your calendar.
  • Add friends to your friends list to easily keep in touch with each other.
  • Easily keep track of all your grades in all your classes.
  • Store your teachers contact information to easily contact them anytime.
  • Go through the revision process with your friends with our note tree.

University Notes: “University Notes is an online network dedicated to making the college life easier and more enjoyable. By allowing students to communicate and share info with each other, you can kiss tracking down phone numbers and those late night trips to the copy machine goodbye!”

Definitely a slick interface. It also has school information regarding courses to help in planning. Similar to both sites above.

Note-taking, Mind-mapping

Notemesh: Specifically for note sharing among college students, their web site claims,”There are plenty of notes services out there; NoteMesh is a different way of thinking about your notes. Collaborate with your classmates to create a unified set of notes for your class. It’s like Wikipedia for your notes.”

Notecentric: Still in beta, “Notecentric is a web based note taking application. Notecentric keeps your notes organized and readily available online. Your notes are always in one place, so you don’t have to worry about synchronizing them.”

Thinkature: A different kind of online notes site, it allows real-time collaboration with others, including voice chat and whiteboards.

OneNote: My favorite note app of all, simply because it also comes with a mobile version. I’m not sure if the above sites are accessible easily from a mobile browser, but OneNote Mobile is free with OneNote. Yeah, you have to pay for this app though.

EverNote: A freeware app similar to OneNote. It’s fairly lightweight, although the interface seems clunky and cluttered. Gets the job done though.

deusto: This is an ideal solution for people who don’t need an ongoing solution, but just one-time. deusto lets you immediately publish a “web site” in a minibook fashion with its own URL. Very simple, straight forward, no account creation.

Word Processors and Office Suites

ajax13: I wanted to mention this office suite first, simply because it is the fastest I have tried. It uses ajax (obviously) instead of Java. Definitely worth a try.

ThinkFree: This office suite is right up there with the rest of them. It can load most document formats you throw at it and keeps your files online.

Google Docs: ‘Nuff said.

EditGrid: If you need a better spreadsheet online solution, it’s EditGrid.

Your Draft: A solution for smaller projects, Your Draft allows you to share and give edit permissions to others and requires no registration.
Research, Formatting, and Writing Tools

Spark Notes: Free online study guides for a lot of books, tests, etc. They even have versions that are readable on your iPod.

OttoBib: Automatically prepare bibliographies using the ISBN of your research books. Simply put the codes in and it prepares it for you in multiple formats.

Knight Cite: Tool that prepares APA,MLA, and Chicago references (in-paper and reference page) for your papers. Print and web citations.

I can’t forget…

Windows Mobile: I wish I had a WM device to help me keep track of and work on things more often instead of only limiting myself to working on notes, projects, etc. at home.

There are plenty more blogs on Web 2.0 apps geared toward student.