Stud the Study Bud

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Inspiration

As college students swamped with PSets and Essays all the time, we figured one part of our day which could use an efficiency boost is our study sessions. We thought maybe something to do with the Pomodoro Technique of working in blocks of 25min on 5min could be useful, and we quickly realized one flaw with existing Pomodoro timers which is that they do not account for the case in which your feeling on a roll and want to keep working for longer periods of time. This is where Stud comes in.

What it does

Stud the study bud is a web-app/chrome-extension combo that helps you study efficiently with periodic breaks but has the flexibility to allow you to continue working if you're on a roll. From our dashboard, you can begin a study session, which first entails establishing your work time goals. Then, a timer will display how long you're supposed to work for before a check-in. When the timer runs out, Stud will ask you how you're feeling (thumbs up or thumbs down). If thumbs down, it's time for a break. If not, keep on pushing! The entire time while you are working, the Stud chrome extension will be monitoring the time spent on different tabs in your browser and classify those tabs as productive or unproductive. At the end of your study session, you can reflect back on your goals to see how productive you were based on metrics such as time spent on "good" tabs or total time spent taking breaks, and at anytime you can review your past study sessions and productivity report.

How we built it

We used a Next.js stack with tailwind and typescript for our front-end and our back-end is run on Firebase.

What we learned

Through this project, our team members learned how to use a number of new technologies. Firebase and Next.js were largely novel services for our team, and one of our members learned react/typescript/tailwind/HTML for the project.

What's next?

In the future, we would love to add a social feature to Stud where you can high-five your friends while they are studying to provide encouragement and social accountability, both of which should increase productivity.

Built With

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