As students hustle from one class to the next while trying to eat, sleep, study, and work on assignments can be overwhelming. How productive they are can be a legitimate factor in their academic performance and ultimately, in life. We have created a list of blogs that offer resourceful tips and suggestions on making students more productive when doing homework & studying, budgeting their finances, and prioritizing. We have also added some personal development blogs as well as some others about uncluttering your space and using technology to increase productivity.
Homework & Studying
While in school, homework and studying should always be a student’s top priority. These blogs provide helpful guides and advice on how to maximize your academic success.
1. Gearfire A student productivity and organization blog, bringing you tips for academic success. They have a large group of contributors ranging from high school students to current college students to post-college students, all of whom share their wisdom on how to do well in school.
2. Academic Lifehacker This blog provides tips and software to help make studies more efficient for both students and teachers.
3. Study Hacks. Get great ideas for ways to boost your productivity when it comes to your school work with ideas such as using free time wisely, learning what to quit, and how to get through difficult courses.
4. Productive Scholar Backing up files, ways to use commute time efficiently, creating great presentations with LaTeX, and portable apps for students are some of the more recent posts on this blog.
5. The Students’ Blog From finding affordable workspaces to useful student websites to staying productive over the summer, this blog offers plenty of ideas to keep students of all ages on track and working efficiently.
6. The University Blog The aim of this blog is to advise, inform, and inspire students to get a bit extra from their time in higher education. There are multiple posts on writing study tips, current HE news, and ideas that may improve your social, and networking career.
7. Proto-Scholar With tips for productivity to learning to navigate the world of academia, this PhD student shares the journey and lessons learned.
8. The Good Habits Blog A spin off of the book by the same name, this blog covers good habits that students can follow to help ensure their academic success.
9. Scott H Young University student Scott Young takes on general productivity topics as well as offering studying tips and advice on lifelong learning.
Budgeting
Take charge of your finances to enjoy a better experience in school and after. Save some of those George Washington’s and find a good deal with some help from these blogs.
10. Get Rich Slowly Devoted to personal finance, offering tips and advice on saving money, investing wisely, and getting a grip on your investing.
11. Wise Bread A personal finance site committed to helping readers live within their means with budgeting tips and advice on finding the best deals saving money on life’s necessities.
12. Beachgirl’s Budget Blog You have to admire this Beachgirl for her budgeting sassiness! She’s on her way to law school, watching every expense, and tracking and paying her debt while being smart about looking for extra cash.
13. PFBlogs.com: This network of personal finance blogs will connect you to all kinds of great advice for organizing your money.
14. Dumb Little Man Provides a handful of tips that will help you save money. There are also some good posts on increasing your productivity and simply keep you sane during school life.
15. In Debt Because I Like Nice Things Follow this blogger on her adventure of shedding over $65,000 in credit card debt. Watch her monthly plan of attack, updates and her snowball payment plan which seems to be working.
16. Getting Finances Done Your guide to stress free financial control. Learn how to organize your bills, stay out of debt, and get a handle on your bank account with some advice from this blogger.
17. Style It Less Sale tips, advice, and complete, super cool outfits totaling under $100. There are also spotlights on great budget friendly fashion pieces.
Prioritizing
Reading these blogs about prioritizing your life can make all the difference when you have to choose between meeting with a study group, starting a rough draft, or going to your best friend’s pool party.
18. Craig Harper: Motivational speaker and life coach Craig Harper teaches readers how to maximize their day by rearranging their priorities and pursuing personal fulfillment.
19. Slacker Manager Find out how slackers can be productive. Check out Slacker Manager, the blog that gives simple tips for prioritizing and managing your life.
20. 43 Folders: Productivity guru Merlin Mann gives advice on some easier ways to make your life a little better. Posts are frequently updated with articles like"Procrastination” and the "Unschedule."
21. Simple Productivity Blog These easy to follow time management and prioritizing tips will urge you to be more flexible and redesign their current daily routines.
22. Zen Habits. The inspirational posts here cover many ways to make your life simpler and at the same time, enriched. From family time to study time, you can find great tips here.
23. Remodelista With a focus on an uncluttered living area, this blog offers suggestions as well as places to purchase items to keep your living space tidy and functional.
24. LifeClever Learn how to balance a schedule full of responsibility and still have time to play. There are a number of helpful articles for students that include "10 Tips for Keeping Your Desk Clean and Tidy" and "5 Ways to Instantly Find Cheap Gas."
25. Effective Time Management: Discover quick ways to organize your calendar, define goals, and more effectively manage your schedule with the resources discussed on this blog.
Clutter
Here are a few blogs that can help you maximize your space, whether it be your desk or your dorm room.
26.Neat and Simple Living Blog Readers of this blog find a host of articles related to letting go of clutter and more helpful organizational hints for cleaning up your life.
27. Unclutterer There is a certain place for everything in your life. Find out where at the Unclutterer.
28. Everlasting Designs This blog has the bonus of not only showing students’ ways to simplify and declutter their surroundings, but their habits and attitudes as well.
29. I’m an Organizing Junkie This blogger has an unhealthy addiction to containers! Join her as she chronicles her life of organizing and attempt to get others hooked along with her.
30. Virtually Organized. Find out how to get rid of clutter, stop procrastinating, better manage your time, and more at this blog.
31. DiscoverOrganization.com This blog offers simple suggestions for getting your mind in the right frame to sharpen your organizational skills. The posts prompt you to think about color, ways to organize your books, and suggestions for cleaning out your closets.
32. Ian’s Messy Desk Make the most out of the 24 hours in your day by reading this blog. Popular topics include prioritizing, motivation, quotes of the day, mind mapping, and communication.
33. Clutter Control Freak Blog A multi-expert blog giving ideas, advice, and news about how to organize everything from photos to shoes. There are also updates on the newest, innovative, tested, products available for getting you started.
34. Organized With Style This blog will help you find ways to create your own personal organizing system whether in your room or your dorm. Find creative ways to make your living area a calming, productive environment.
Personal Development
You’re not going to make it anywhere in life with just your degree alone. Find some inspiration, self confidence, guidance, and support from these bloggers.
35. Creating a Better Life This blog deals with personal development in a pure form. These posts deal with productivity related issues from the perspective of creating internal attitudes that make us more productive.
36. StevePavlina.com: Steve Pavlina's blog boasts a large archive of personal development and productivity articles like "30 Days to Success," "Motivation for Smart People," and "10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job."
37. PickTheBrain This unconventional self-improvement blog tackles issues like personal productivity, motivation, self education, psychology, and philosophy.
38. Life Optimizer: Life Optimizer is a personal growth and effectiveness blog that offers advice on staying positive, energetic, and productive.
39. My Empty Bucket: Learn how to lead life full of happiness and fulfillment by prioritize your responsibilities, figuring out what kinds of goals to set for yourself, and improving your self-esteem.
40. Ririan Project This personal development blog is a mixture of easy to follow how-to guides and itemized lists, like "10 Big Lessons from Little Kids." Find articles on self-esteem and leadership.
41. Life Learning Today: Apply these valuable life improvement tips to your lifestyle for maximum productivity, relationship, and self-esteem improvements.
42. Right Attitudes » Ideas for Impact Nagesh Belludi offers practical advice for developing the right attitudes in life — and transforming attitudes into behaviors that help you be more productive.
Technology
Technology provides so many ways to help students make the most of their busy day. These blogs provide great advice for ways to incorporate technology into your life to save time and help you work more efficiently.
43. Lifehacker With an emphasis on the high tech, this blog offers tons of suggestions for making student life more productive. Lifehack.org invites reader participation on its forums and has a popular "How to" section that's worth checking out.
44. David Sea Writer David Sea is also the inventor of the famed The Printable CEO Series and The Compact Calendar, two sets of tools that will make your life way more organized.
45. Productivity501. Increase your personal productivity with the advice available here with focus on time management, technology, money, and organization.
46. Smart Productivity. Written by a software engineer, this blog on productivity and GTD has a definite technological edge to it.
47. Dougbelshaw.com Doug Belshaw is a teacher, researcher and director of edte.ch. He brings together three of his biggest interests: education, technology and productivity by enhance students’ learning and is always looking for ways to increase his creative outputs.
48. Jeet Blog The primary focuses of this blog is on different Web 2.0 apps and online tools and how they can help you become more productive in our daily life. Also you will find articles on social media and blogging.
49. Code Jacked Productivity and technology tips to get you jacked! Code Jacked is a productivity and technology site aimed at making your computing experience more fun and useful.
50. Notes on Productivity Great advice and tutorials on how to use technology time savers like Lotus Notes and various mind mapping tools.
Students of today have a tough time keeping up with their schedules. Between pulling all night study sessions, show up for 8 a.m. class, and cramming for finals week, we hope that the above blogs will increase your productivity, which in return, might help relieve some stress.
