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planner / bujo inspo from my new ‘plan with me’ video!

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Isolation Study Tips + Motivation (youtube edition)

How to create the perfect study routine and schedule for home

Isolation study tips (this video is mine pls be nice)

How to plan your time in isolation

self-isolation but make it productive

my productive quarantine morning routine

please add any videos that have u kept motivated and inspired during this period!! lotsa love 💖💐

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17/05/2020

Weather forecast: perfectly sunny with a soft breeze that makes me wish I could go out to the forest to read.

Today's set up includes a massive anatomy-fisiology book which I hope will save my life in the upcoming exam.

I feel motivated enough, although the sun makes me want to lay down and absorb all its warmth like a flower. Oh well, duty calls and I can't push it off any longer.

Let's be productive!

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17/05/20 - I am so tired…

After an online test, I had four things due in a row

I am t i r e d

nothingmakessenseinthiscourse

Things due:

- Iterative articulation points and minimum spanning tree java program

- C program on pointers that I don’t recall the lectures for

- Online test on program testing for OOP concepts

- Group project on app dev

i wont survive this week. You know when your brain cant handle more info? I had that today and just straight up watch half of season 4 of boku no hero while eating noodles. 

anyway back to work i guess

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17/5/2020 // 16.15

Started the day with some respiratory, then did some GI drugs and now I’m on cardiology drugs. Now I’m officially bored of revision! Also please excuse the disgustingly weak tea I accidentally made ☕️

2020 quarantine challenge: Sunday week 8

Would you rather read minds or accurately predict the future?

Read minds! I would love to know what people are thinking (sometimes!)

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Coffee moodboard☕️

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A great to do list app: Microsoft To Do

If you're the type who doesn't like to feel restricted by a schedule, has a soft spot for not completing what you set out to do, or simply don't have the time to sit down and make a whole plan — this app is for you.

My initial thing was making to do lists before I slept for the next day, but after a while of using this, if felt like it was missing something. I don't know if it's my steadily manifesting short attention span, or my inclination to abandon things once I get a small grip, but I needed more. This is where Microsoft To Do came in.

I found a new feature recently on this little app that has always been on my phone but never got the time of day, and all of a sudden it's my #1 organizational tool. Here's why it's such a good app meshed in with a tour of the app.

1. The main interface

So this is what the main page looks like (sans the email address at the top, which you need btw). It's simple, clear, and as minimalistic as it comes without it being too barren. You can make your own lists using the bottom left option (shopping lists, wishlists, writing prompts — literally anything), and if you want, you can group them together and pull the group up and down with the bottom right option. I mainly use it for studying at the moment, hence the singularity. The top lists (my day, planned etc.) come preset along with the app. More on them below.

2. Tasks

So everything you make, wherever you make it, also ends up in the tasks list as a master list of sorts. This is pretty useful if you want to reflect on all the to-dos you've made, or you want to quickly see everything at once.

3. My Day

So this is a really neat feature I've used religiously. Let's say you go to your tasks and make to-dos for the whole week, but then you need a space to see the ones for the specific day — that's what this is. You can put your to-dos of the day here and cross them off as you go, and of course, this'll also be crossed off your tasks list.

Here's what it looks like -

I'll explain what everything is. If nothing's checked off, it'll be one consistent list, and since I did *something* today, it separates them automatically like that.

Q: What is "Today"?

It's "suggestions", and these are from your uncompleted tasks. So, frankly, it's reminding you of your past failures and asking if you'd like another chance at them. It's safe to assume that I've used this option a lot, and it's especially useful when you plan on doing a task you put on your My Day the next day instead, and you don't have to write it again.

Q: What is the plus option on the side?

I know, I know — you probably knew. It's to add tasks. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT'S FUN?? You have all those options at the bottom! You can dump stuff straight into your tasks master list bar, you can set a due date (and time!), you can set a separate date to remind you, and you can chose to make the task a repetition. Yay.

Q: What about the star? The little numbers (0 of 3 etc.)?

If you star a task, it ends up in your important list.

Plain and simple right? Pretty self explanatory.

And this brings us to the feature I just recently found ✨✨✨

You can add steps to a to-do. EXAGGERATED GASP.

Isn't that beautiful??? It's an incorporation of a useful tip — when you're planning something, lay out the steps you gotta go through to finish a particular task, and with this feature, you don't have to make a bunch of to-dos that are steps to reach one particular goal. Extra yay.

3. Planned and Assigned to you

That's what it looks like. In regards to Planned, it shows what you got planned, what's overdue, and what your week looks like. So this is the nitty gritty part of the app, where you can have an overview of your plans. Assigned To You is more personal — what do you have to do, as simple as that? That's what you put in there.

Of course, this is all subjective. You can delete and make your own, use whatever for whatever, and more importantly, pick your own colours! There's an option to use a picture as the backdrop of a list, but those are some set images unfortunately. But they're pretty good too, I'm not complaining.

So that concludes this how-to/ tour. Honestly, I discovered the steps portion and just ran here to make a whole post about it. But it's really useful. And it's fun to use, and pretty freeing, so I would suggest this as a good organizational tool.

A couple of more fun things to note: it makes a little chime noise if you check something off (when your phone is on sound, it was a pleasant surprise!), and you can make it a widget to put on your home screen, either as a shortcut, or to show a (scrollable, tiny) list. I put Planned as a shortcut, and My Day as a tiny list, and I noticed that when you check stuff off while the list is a widget like that, a small bar appears and grows corresponding to how much of your tasks you completed.

Yes, I'm gushing. With a straight face. But honestly, extra big yay for Microsoft To Do. It's simple, clear, and as minimalistic as it comes without being too barren.

Hope this helps!

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17.05.20 // just trying to get stuff done + watching study with me’s on youtube. i would love to make my own study with me but i am nervous aha

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051720 - 12(?)/30 days of productivity

Sooo I haven’t posted yesterday because we had to travel north where we’ll stay for a few weeks (we followed safety measures). I guess the only productive thing I did yesterday was to help clean up the house before we left. Now that we’re settled, I’m back to studying!

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~ 16/05/20 ~

As I thought I didn’t start posting regularly back in the beginning of 2020 but I thought I’d try again.

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I spent the day reading and listening to Crime Junkie!! I AM OBSESSED. I’ve listened to about 3 episodes now and I am no way done yet.

How did your Sunday go?

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11.06.18 06:28am. Pre exam cramming & coffee.

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wrote a personal post about mental illness which i published on my instagram. I wanted to share it here too, but if you enjoy please feel free to give it some love on my insta too!

Today I ran out of a workshop to have a panic attack. This isn’t the first time I’ve left a room full of people to do that and I’m certain it won’t be the last. It isn’t the first time I’ve sat outside hyperventilating whilst tears run down my face as people give me weird looks and, again, I’m certain it won’t be the last time. But I’m not telling you this to whine about my day or garner sympathy - I’m telling you this to reassure you that it’s okay!!!!!! Don’t be ashamed of mental illness. I’ve been told repeatedly that I “don’t seem like the type” to have a mental illness, that I’m too outgoing, too *happy*, too organised, that I do too well in school and I’m too busy to possibly have a mental health disorder. In reality, the reason I “don’t seem like the type” is because people associate mental illness with an inability to function and always looking sad. For the most part, I AM happy, I AM organised and I AM successful - and I also have depression and anxiety. I see a psychologist, I’m on antidepressants and these are completely normal things that I shouldn’t feel ashamed to discuss. & I’m sick of feeling ashamed!!

The stereotypes associated with mental health disorders are harmful for an array of reasons - they are the reason I took so long to seek assistance, and they are the reason many of my friends are adamant that they don’t want help. They don’t want to seem “weak”, they think they can’t be mentally ill because of x y and z, they are told it’s “all in their head” or they think the process will be scary and intimidating.

I’m tired of seeing people suffer in silence due to an unnecessary and outdated stigma. If you’re even somewhat considering reaching out to someone - DO IT! For every one person who makes you feel invalid, there are five more waiting to help you. Talk to a teacher, a friend, a parent, a counsellor, or anyone who you trust. Please don’t suffer in silence, and please don’t be ashamed ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

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Get your life together on the low. No one has to know what you’re doing and how.

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12.01.19 - saturday morning, chai tea and the spanish civil war🌤

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ok so apparently not a lot of ppl know to do this when ‘reviewing notes’ but

look at section of notes

look away from section of notes

explain section of notes

check if explanation was correct

identify mistakes/gaps

recite correction for each mistake/gap

repeat until no mistakes

gotta practice recalling the info instead of just acknowledging its correctness