A short guide to managing your time

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How to Set Smart Goals

This video provides an overview of the SMART goals principles

How to Stop Procrastinating

Animated 5 minute video detailing three steps you can take to stop procrastinating 

Dealing With Digital Distractions

• Tips and tools from the University of North Carolina to help you minimise distractions

Do I Have Enough Time?

• This tool, from the Student Success Toolbox, helps to calculate the amount of time you spend on different activities during a typical week and offers advice on how much study you could realistically undertake in your free time. The results are a GUIDE only!

Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle

• An article about the time management matrix

Goals and Priorities

• Book chapter (from Academic Successt which is worth a look) on setting meaningful goals and priorities

The Lie of Working Better Under Pressure

• Article about research that found that you probably don't work better under pressure, actually

Procrastination

• From Psychology Today magazine, an article on the basics of procrastination

7 Ways to Stay Motivated

• Nice infographic about motivation - with some time management tips

10 Time Management Tips That Work

• According to Entrepreneur magazine. 

20 Quick Tips for Better Time Management

• From Lifehack, a website offering tips on how to be more productive (but don't worry about that, use these tips to better manage your time!)

Time Management for Busy Students

• Free ebook written by Kwantlen Polytechnic University (Canada) Learning Centre

Apps

Note: Don't use apps just for the sake of using them. If you're more comfortable using pen and paper, then do so! 

Clockify

• Firefox extension which you can use to manually track where you spend time

Cold Turkey

• A very powerful website blocker. Come in both free and subscription varieties - the "freemium" model

Forest

• Can't stop scrolling? Have trouble focusing? Use Forest, a timer which helps you beat procrastination and boost productivity

Leech Block NG

• Firefox add on designed to block those all those time-wasting sites you spend time on

Microsoft To Do

• Microsoft task management web app (also available for Apple and Android devices)

8 Website Blockers For Studying, Productivity, & Focus

• A listing of some apps - some free - that block websites, or the whole Internet, so you can focus on your work

15 Best Time Management Apps and Tools (2023 Updated)

• If you want to look at an app that will help you manage your time better here's a list of apps that might help you with the most common challenges of managing time.

Remember the Milk

• Well respected time management app

My Study Life

• Available for Android, IOS & Web/Desktop: This is an online student planner enables you to keep track of all your classes, tasks, assignments and exams

StayFocused

• Chrome Extension equivalent of Leech Block above

Time Tracker

• Chrome extension for keeping track of how much time you spend on web sites

Tomato Clock

• Browser extension for managing your productivity. by breaking down your work into 25-minute Pomodoro intervals
  • Chrome
  • Firefox