Book Links

Here are all the links mentioned in 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades! If there’s another resource in the book not linked here, feel free to ask me about it on Twitter (or just connect with me there):

Step 1: Pay Better Attention in Class

• A College Guide to Eating Healthy
• You Must Try, Then You Must Ask

Step 2: Take More Effective Notes

• Note-taking systems video
• Coggle
• Scott Young’s Flow Method

Step 3: Get More Out of Your Textbooks

• Active Reading video

Step 4: Plan Like a General

• Download my Graduation Planning Spreadsheet

Step 5: Build Your Optimal Study Environment

• Study music playlist
• My YouTube channel
• SimplyNoise
• White Noise & Co.
• Celestial White Noise
• Space Odyssey
• Coffeetivity
• Rainymood
• Soundsleeping
• Ravenclaw Common Room
• StayFocusd
• FocalFilter
• ColdTurkey
• SelfControl

Step 6: Fight Entropy and Stay Organized

• Dropbox
• Drafts
• Evernote
• Scanbot
• Trello
• Google Calendar
• Todoist
• Pinboard

Step 7: Defeat Procrastination

• Habitica
• CIG Guild
• Beeminder
• My Beeminder content goal
• Pact about cutting a shoe in half
• Luke’s algorithm for beating procrastination

Step 8: Study Smarter

• Anki
• Wolfram Alpha
• Mathematics Stack Exchange
• r/homeworkhelp

Step 9: Write Better Papers

• Byword
• Simon Peyton Jones talk
• Editing a paper – Cal Newport

Step 10: Make Group Projects Suck Less

• Episode 42 of the CIG podcast, covering group projects
• Trello
• Slack
• Google Docs

Fin: Where to Go from Here

• Review on Amazon
• Join the newsletter
• Want me to speak at your school?
• Best posts

Who am I?

• Podcast
• Youtube channel
• @TomFrankly on Twitter