5 Apps and Services That Will Help Any Student Do More in Less Time

College students today, both in the UK and in the USA, go through a lot of stress. The primary reason is simple: they simply do not have enough time for everything. Every day there is a custom essay to write, a paper to check for plagiarism, a part-time job that does not pay nearly enough, extracurricular activities to take part in, books to read, etc. Even if you are someone who can deal with all of this without help, you feel burned out afterward and ready to pay anything to be able to complete all your work in a little less time. Fortunately, now there are tools that can help you – and we are here to tell you about them.

Blinkist

Tragic as it may be for people with certain personality traits, there are still no better ways to consume information than to simply read it. Although a lot of what surrounds us today looks quite futuristic, we still have not found a way to upload content directly to human brains. Blinkist, however, tries to get as close to it as possible. This service offers more than 3,000 nonfiction books distilled to their purest form: collections of insights short enough to be read in one sitting, no longer than 15 minutes. An educated person can expect to read a couple thousand books in one’s entire lifetime – with Blinkist, you can read that amount and more in a couple of weeks.

Cite This for Me

When you have to complete an academic paper fast, there is nothing more frustrating than to get bogged down in bibliography. Writing it sometimes takes almost as much time as working on the paper itself. One often can get seriously tempted to contact an online writing service and say, “Do my essay for me, please.” Cite This for Me is a small but extremely useful app that can save you a ton of time. When you work with a source, simply scan the book’s barcode with your smartphone’s camera, specify what formatting style you use, and it will automatically create a correct citation.

iTunes U

If you try to measure how much time you spend simply looking for sources and getting your hands on them, you will be amazed and horrified both. iTunes U is a straightforward and time-saving solution – it offers an excellent selection of lectures and coursework from the best colleges around the world. What is more important, it is the best kind of cheap – it if free, no strings attached.

iStudiez

It may sound like an exaggeration, but most students have more than enough time to deal with all their academic commitments and extracurricular activities. They are simply not organized enough and waste huge amounts of their time because of haphazard study sessions, suboptimal timetable, distractions, and poor time management in general. iStudiez and its paid version, iStudiez Pro, aim at solving this problem. This award-winning app makes it easy to manage your schedule and keep an eye on all the courses and assignments that are due in the weeks to come.

Focus Booster

Until humanity invents the time machine, in order to complete more work, you will have to use the time you already have more efficiently. “Yes, but how am I supposed to do it? I am already at my limit!” If this is what you think, you are mistaken. You can achieve far more with more focus – and Focus Booster is a tool that can help you. It will help you beat procrastination, understand where your time currently goes and use every minute of your life to the fullest, achieving far more in the same amount of time.

And what tools do you use to be more effective?