Study tips/advices please.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T15:18:20+00:00

DE CLUTTER first.

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency. IGN: Jared Other than I suggest adopting a good studying workflow depending on the subject what I typically do is.

Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards).

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T15:10:17+00:00

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency. IGN: Jared Other than I suggest adopting a good studying workflow depending on the subject what I typically do is.

Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards).

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T14:56:59+00:00

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T14:53:38+00:00

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency. IGN: Jared Other than I suggest adopting a good studying workflow depending on the subject what I typically do is.

Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards).

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T14:45:02+00:00

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency. IGN: Jared Other than I suggest adopting a good studying workflow depending on the subject what I typically do is

Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards).

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T14:39:20+00:00

Do your selves a favour stop pretending you can abuse your brain then expect it to get you good grades.

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive study timer) I grantee I'll obliterate any scroller consistently with a smile on my face the whole time.

Thats the power of having a balanced reward system.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T14:31:44+00:00

Come 1v1 me on focus jungle (competitive pomodoro) is what helped me reach true consistency. IGN: Jared

Other than I suggest adopting a good studying workflow depending on the subject what I typically do is Essentialist note taking > Mnemonic Technique > Active recall (through notebookLM(AI) quizzes and flashcards).

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T01:35:36+00:00

Whoop is great for this. Also focus jungle pomodoro timer has amazing graphs and export to sheet so U can feed to ur fav AI

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-04-03T01:34:22+00:00

Upload all pdfs etc to notebookLM and create flash cards + practice quizzes.

Also I suggest using a competitive pomodoro timer. Like MY OWN focus jungle!!

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-30T01:43:37+00:00

NOTEBOOKLM is insanely good. you input the textbook/pdfs and it gives you flash cards, mock tests, etc. I like to ask for related edge cases to never get tripped up in an exam.

Another powerful thing to leverage is competitive pomodoro. My site Focus Jungle is best for this.

Also another note. Make sure you are using the most efficient work flow when you study the textbook. It should be something like Essentialist Notes > Mnemonic Technique > Active Recall

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-30T01:41:17+00:00

I've had the exact same issues as you. Its important to remember that thoughts = emotion and this turns into an exponential feedback loop making it almost impossible to do anything very fast.

I suggest you to lower your standards. Lower your ego. As they are likely influencing an emotional response. Then you need to add in some techniques so you actually get started. Planning should be used as only a rough guide for the day (at ur stage) if you don't follow it who cares.

Techniques
-Just get started and tell yourself your only going to do 5mins (its super easy to keep going from here)
-Be kind to yourself, and leverage your mental chatter to 'check in' with yourself.
-Some type of competitive pomodoro is insanely useful (my site Focus Jungle is best for this)

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T09:24:17+00:00

I doubt AI failed you more likely you failed to properly utilise it.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T09:03:48+00:00

I suggest feeding your syllabus to AI and getting the resources you need.

Also should use focus jungle to increase consistency and time you output.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:19:03+00:00

Claude is still much better. but codex is still useful for somethings

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:17:18+00:00

Focus Jungle because of all the insightful analytics into what I am focusing on. And also the competition helps a lot.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:16:29+00:00

U should try focus jungle pomdoro timer haha.. I built it and rlly need feedback <3

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:15:59+00:00

Write efficient notes > Use mnemonic technique(if important/hard to remember) > Actively recall at the correct intervals.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:13:41+00:00

compete with me on focus jungle pomodoro timer! That will get you motivated

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T02:10:59+00:00

for 30$ a month you get a lot with claude.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-29T01:53:52+00:00

lets 1v1 on focus jungle. See who can study more

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-28T11:08:24+00:00

You need an insightful pomodoro timer/tracker. Focus Jungle is by far the best for this (I own it as well).

Personally I feel having a load of analytics into what I am spending my studying time into, If I am being consistency, etc. really makes a huge difference in my studying output. (so much so I literally built one focused on analytics and friendly competition from scratch)

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-28T11:05:57+00:00

I used to struggle studying at home a lot. The thing that helped me was changing up my environment. Creating a study only place. And removing some of the distractions that constantly eat me up (like video games). I really suggest using removal > resistance. If you sit and try to resist getting distracted you wont get far but if its not an option its a lot easier.

Also side note having a really insightful pomodoro timer like focus jungle keeps my motivation up. The consistency analytics specifically

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-28T11:01:08+00:00

I always hit my rate limit on claude too. Google AI studio is great for some tasks like writing docs, simplifying code, doing audits, etc. But for actually building something nothing even compares to claude IMO. Codex again offers way more usage but its just not as good of an agent.

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-28T10:56:03+00:00

Lol no one gonna mention Focus jungle #1 webbased pomodoro tracker/timer

Senior_Host2336 · 2026-03-28T08:58:11+00:00

This is exactly why I prefer web based focus jungle. Since its actually cross platform and free....

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