📚 Study Command Center
This is the page to open on a tired Tuesday. Do the queue, not a planning session.
Start here: today’s 15–30 minutes
- Open ✅ Today’s Study Tasks and do the first 3 incomplete tasks. Sort by Priority, then Due. If it is empty, add: Review cards due today (10 min), one weak topic recall (10 min), and next assigned reading (15 min).
- Open 🧠 Review Queue. Filter Next review to today or earlier. Answer from memory before opening the source. Start with New, then 1 · Again, then 2 · Hard.
- Open 📖 Assigned Reading. If something is due within 7 days, read only the next section and answer its Question to answer from memory. Mark Notes captured only after writing 3–5 bullets without the text open.
- Open 🧩 Weak Topics. Pick the highest-severity item and do its Next action. If you hesitate or miss, leave it visible and schedule another review.
- End by setting a Next review date and adding tomorrow’s first task. Stop when the timer ends.
If energy is low
- 5 minutes: answer 5 due cards; mark each confidence honestly.
- 15 minutes: answer 10 due cards, then explain 1 weak topic aloud.
- 30 minutes: 10 due cards + 1 practice problem + 15 minutes of the reading that is due soonest.
- 60 minutes: use the exam runway below, then make cards only from what you could not retrieve.
The review rule
Use retrieval first, notes second. For every topic or card, answer, check, and choose one score:
| Score |
Meaning |
Set next review |
| New |
Not attempted yet |
Today or tomorrow |
| 1 · Again |
Could not answer / major error |
Tomorrow |
| 2 · Hard |
Partial answer or needed a hint |
In 2 days |
| 3 · Good |
Correct with effort |
In 7 days |
| 4 · Easy |
Correct quickly and clearly |
In 14 days, then 30 days |
When an exam is within 14 days, review its class’s due cards every day and add one mixed practice session every 2–3 days. When an exam is within 3 days, stop making broad notes: do timed retrieval and practice questions, then repair only the misses.
One-time setup (about 45 minutes)
Work in this order. Do not perfect the system before using it.
- Add every exam, quiz, assignment, paper, lab, and project from all five syllabi to 📅 Exams & Assignments. Use the real due date and attach the syllabus/brief link.