{"id":42469,"date":"2020-10-02T12:13:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T16:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=42469"},"modified":"2020-10-01T16:13:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T20:13:15","slug":"how-i-stay-organized-using-my-ipad-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2020\/10\/02\/how-i-stay-organized-using-my-ipad-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Stay Organized Using my iPad Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As University students, it is important for us to keep a healthy balance between school and our personal lives. With COVID-19 and the shift to online learning, this has become even more crucial \u2013 especially if you are studying abroad remotely, like in my case. I have found that the ultimate key to success in this situation is simple: organization. Over the years, I have used different methods and tools to help me stay organized, and have found that using my iPad Pro is the most useful to me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favourite and most used app on my iPad is called GoodNotes 5 and I use this on a daily basis. Apart from being a great note-taking app, it has very useful planner templates such schedules, timetables, planners, calendars, and to-do lists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a quick look at the planner templates offered in GoodNotes 5<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The templates that I use most frequently to plan and organize all my work are the calendar, timetable, and to-do list templates. For the monthly calendars, I like to write down all important deadlines, colour coding them so that I instantly know which kind of tasks they are. For example, blue indicates that it is a deadline from the University of Western Australia, and yellow indicates that it is a high priority task. I then use my to-do list to write down all the tasks that I want to complete within a particular day and sometimes even by the hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here are three of my most used planner templates<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Besides the general planner templates offered within GoodNotes, I also like to download other templates from online as there are many options and are really fun to work with. My go-to website is called imom.com, and I really enjoy using the \u201cfoodie calendars\u201d from there as they\u2019re so cute!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of some of the downloadable monthly \"foodie calendars\" from imom.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Besides GoodNotes, I use some other apps on my iPad to keep me organized with all of my priorities. I use the Calendar app to input major dates and deadlines and set reminders for time-sensitive tasks through the Reminders app. I sometimes even set alarms through my Clock app for important deadlines that I have to meet within a day. I also enabled the \u201ctoday view\u201d option on my home screen so that I can view right away all the tasks that I have to complete. Using a combination of these different apps help to ensure that I do not miss any tasks or deadlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every night after completing all my work, I like to take a look through my agenda again to see what I have to work on the next day. I like to then modify my to-do list so that I can begin the next day knowing exactly what to work on.     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reason I find my iPad so useful for keeping me organized is because all the data gets backed up into iCloud, which means that I can access them from any of my other Apple devices. So, if I am ever out and need to check my calendar, I can always open up GoodNotes on my iPhone and view everything there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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