Study & Productivity Tools
Plan the work, then do it: turn exam dates into a revision timetable and a due date into dated steps, study with a Pomodoro timer and flashcards, schedule reviews on expanding intervals so material sticks, and keep habits and priorities in view. Free, no sign-up.
Study & Productivity
30 tools · free, no sign-up
Mnemonic Generator
Turn any word or list of initials into a memorable mnemonic sentence — built from word banks so each word starts with your letters.
Pomodoro Timer
Study with the Pomodoro technique — focused work sessions with short and long breaks, session counting, and sound alerts. Runs entirely in your browser.
Typing Speed Test
Test your typing speed in words per minute (WPM) with accuracy scoring — 1, 3, or 5 minute tests on real English sentences. Runs entirely in your browser.
Stopwatch
Online stopwatch with lap times — start, pause, record laps and reset, with time shown to the hundredth of a second. Runs entirely in your browser.
Countdown Timer
Set a countdown timer for exams, talks and study sessions — hours, minutes and seconds, quick presets, and a large flashing display with three beeps at zero.
Online Notepad
A distraction-free online notepad that autosaves to your browser — with live word and character counts and a download-as-text button. Nothing is uploaded.
Reading Speed Test
Measure your reading speed in words per minute — read a timed passage, stop when done, and see your WPM against average benchmarks.
Sleep Calculator
Find the best times to fall asleep or wake up based on 90-minute sleep cycles — enter your wake-up time and get suggested bedtimes.
Text to Speech Reader
Listen to any text read aloud using your browser's built-in voices — choose the voice, speed, and pitch. Great for proofreading by ear. An on-device voice keeps your text on your device.
Course Workload Estimator
Estimate a course's hours per week from its reading, writing, exams and class meetings, using the published rates of the Rice University Course Workload Estimator.
Assignment Planner
Turn a start and due date into dated steps for a research paper, essay, lab report, presentation or literature review — with tips, tool links, print and calendar export.
Study Schedule Generator
Turn exam dates, difficulty ratings and daily study hours into a day-by-day revision timetable with spaced review sessions, print view and calendar export.
Reading Planner
Split a book or page range into dated daily readings by finish date or pages per day, with minutes per day at your reading speed and calendar export.
Words Per Day Calculator
Work out the words you need per writing day to reach a word target by a deadline, with a dated schedule, NaNoWriMo and thesis presets, and a saved progress log.
Spaced Repetition Scheduler
Schedule review dates for each topic on expanding intervals (1, 3, 7, 14, 30 days or your own), squeezed to fit before your exam, with a calendar export.
Flashcard Maker
Paste term-definition pairs to study them as flip cards (shuffle, mark known), print duplex-aligned cards with cut lines, or export them to Anki and Quizlet.
Class Schedule Maker
Build a colour-coded weekly class timetable with days, times and rooms, see clashes flagged, keep it saved in your browser, and print it or save it as PNG or SVG.
Cornell Notes Template
Print Cornell notes pages on Letter or A4 with cue column, notes area, summary box and header, in wide, college, narrow or no ruling — or take Cornell notes online.
Online Teleprompter
Paste a script and scroll it smoothly at your speaking pace in words per minute, with text size, mirror mode, countdown, keyboard controls and full screen.
Speech to Text
Dictate into an editable transcript with your browser's speech recognition: choose a language, see live results, use spoken punctuation in English, then copy or download.
SMART Goal Generator
Turn a rough goal into a SMART goal statement — specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound — with a criteria checklist and an action plan.
Printable Calendar Generator
Print monthly or year-at-a-glance calendars for any year from 1900 to 2200 — Sunday or Monday week start, ISO week numbers, the holidays you add, academic-year mode.
Habit Tracker
Tick habits on a monthly grid with current and longest streaks and a monthly rate, then print a blank or filled-in sheet on Letter or A4. Saved only in your browser.
Eisenhower Matrix
Sort a task list into the four urgent/important boxes of the Eisenhower matrix, drag tasks between boxes, tick them off, then print, copy or download. Saved only in your browser.
Weekly Planner Template
Print a weekly planner as an hour-by-hour grid or ruled day boxes, with a Monday or Sunday start, optional dates for up to eight weeks, and a priorities box. Letter or A4.
SQ3R Reading Worksheet
Print a two-page SQ3R worksheet for a chapter: survey checklist, a question row for each heading, recite-from-memory boxes and a review section. Letter or A4.
Feynman Technique Template
A guided four-step Feynman technique template: explain a concept simply, run a jargon and reading-grade check, log your gaps, and write a simpler second draft.
White Noise Generator
Play white, pink or brown noise for focus, synthesised in your browser with a volume control, a softness control and a timer that fades the sound out. Nothing is downloaded.
Speed Reading Trainer
Practise reading your own text at a set pace: one word at a time, in short chunks or by highlight, from 100 to 1000 WPM, then check what you remembered.
Freewriting Tool
Write for a set time or word count with an optional no-backspace mode, fading or hidden text, a gentle nudge if you stall, a live word count and text export.
Plan the Term, the Week and the Day
- Planning a term. The Course Workload Estimator turns a syllabus into hours per week, the Class Schedule Maker lays out the timetable, and the Printable Calendar Generator prints monthly or academic-year calendars.
- Planning to a deadline. The Study Schedule Generator builds a revision timetable from exam dates; the Assignment Planner turns a due date into dated steps; the Reading Planner and Words Per Day Calculator spread a reading list or a word target over the days you have.
- Planning a week. The Weekly Planner Template prints on Letter or A4, the Eisenhower Matrix sorts tasks into do first, schedule, delegate and eliminate, and the SMART Goal Generator sharpens a vague goal.
- Keeping a routine. The Habit Tracker shows streaks on a monthly grid, and the Sleep Calculator suggests bedtimes from 90-minute sleep cycles.
Study Methods the Tools Support
| Method | What it is | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Spaced repetition | Reviewing material at growing intervals rather than all at once | Spaced Repetition Scheduler |
| Retrieval practice | Testing yourself instead of rereading | Flashcard Maker |
| Timeboxing | Short, fixed blocks of focused work with breaks | Pomodoro Timer |
| Note-taking with review cues | Notes beside a cue column, closed by a summary | Cornell Notes Template |
| Structured reading | Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review — one chapter at a time | SQ3R Reading Worksheet |
| Explaining to learn | Explaining a concept in plain words to expose the gaps | Feynman Technique Template |
| Memory aids | Acronyms and phrases that hold a list in order | Mnemonic Generator |
| Backward planning | Working from the deadline to today | Assignment Planner |
Spaced practice and self-testing are among the best-supported study techniques in learning research; rereading and highlighting are among the least.
Focus, Reading and Writing Practice
For a work session, start the Pomodoro Timer, use the Countdown Timer or Stopwatch for timed practice, keep notes in the Online Notepad, and mask background noise with the White Noise Generator. The Freewriting Tool helps with starting a draft: write for a set time or word count, with an optional no-backspace mode. To check yourself, the Reading Speed Test, Typing Speed Test and Speed Reading Trainer measure words per minute — and the trainer asks what you remembered, because speed without comprehension is not a skill. Listening and speaking: the Text to Speech Reader reads a draft aloud, Speech to Text dictates one, and the Online Teleprompter scrolls a script for a talk.
Where Your Data Lives
The planners, timers and notepad run in your browser. Tools that remember your work — the notepad, class schedule, habit tracker, Eisenhower matrix and Feynman template — save it in your browser's local storage on that device, not in an account, so it will not follow you to another computer and is lost if you clear site data. Download or print anything you need to keep.
Text to Speech uses your browser's built-in voices. Speech to Text uses your browser's speech recognition, and the audio does leave your device: Chrome sends it to Google, Edge to Microsoft, and Safari may send it to Apple. For notes and essays, the guides on taking research notes and organizing research go further.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How long is a Pomodoro?
- The classic Pomodoro is 25 minutes of focused work followed by a 5-minute break, with a longer break of 15–30 minutes after four rounds. The Pomodoro Timer defaults to 25, 5 and 15 minutes, and you can set any lengths that suit you.
- How far apart should spaced repetition reviews be?
- A common starting schedule is 1, 3, 7, 14 and 30 days after first learning the material, stretching the gap each time you remember it. The Spaced Repetition Scheduler uses those intervals by default, accepts your own, and fits reviews before your exam date.
- How do I make a study schedule for exams?
- List each exam's date, rate how hard each subject is for you, and decide how many hours a day you can study. The Study Schedule Generator spreads the hours across the days, weighting harder subjects and adding review sessions before each exam.
- What is the Eisenhower matrix?
- A four-box grid that sorts tasks by urgency and importance: urgent and important tasks you do first, important but not urgent ones you schedule, urgent but unimportant ones you delegate if you can, and the rest you drop. Students use it to stop deadlines crowding out the long-term work that matters. The Eisenhower Matrix lets you drag tasks between boxes.
- What is the SQ3R method?
- SQ3R is a reading routine: Survey the chapter's headings, turn them into Questions, Read to answer each one, Recite the answers from memory, then Review. It works best on textbook chapters, and the SQ3R Reading Worksheet prints two pages with your chapter headings already written in.
- Can I export flashcards to Anki?
- Yes. The Flashcard Maker exports your term–definition pairs in a format Anki can import, and also prints them as duplex-aligned cards with cut lines.