This app has an interface that looks like a calendar showing one week. The students can use this interface to mark their class times and any other commitments they might have (extracurricular activities) in red indicating their busy time. The rest of times will be automatically marked in green indicating free time. The students can use this color-coded interface to help them plan when to do their tasks (homework, exam prep and projects). They can allocate time blocks to their tasks by drawing boxes in the green areas in their calendar. Those time boxes will be yellow to differentiate them from the other colors. Inside those boxes they can type few words to identify their tasks.
This program is interesting to me because over the past few years I wished I had a program that is as convenient to use as described above. I have tried Google Spreadsheet, Microsoft Excel and OneNote to achieve the same idea. However, maintaining tables in all of these programs is a hassle. Using a Calendar App such as Google Calendar is also a hassle because there are a number of settings that you need to go through to set a calendar event all of which are unnecessary for the purpose I need. I have not found an app that is simple and quick-to-use to plan when I am doing what.
- As a student, I want to add my busy time to my weekly planner by drawing red boxes.
- As a student, I want to add my to-do tasks to my weekly planner by drawing yellow boxes.
- As a student, I want to label the boxes with few words after drawing them and modify the labels later.
- As a student, I want to see the areas where I did not draw any box in green to visualize my free time.
- As a student, I want to delete the any box by selecting the box and pressing delete.
- As a student, I want to modify any box by changing the size of the box or dragging it across the week.
- As a student, I want to save my week plan to a file.
- As a student, I want to load my week plan from a file.
Download student-week-planner.jar and run it in your system.