This page is periodically updated.
College is fantastic. I’ve had the best years of my life at college. But it can be hard, for lots of reasons, not least because the workload is heavy and some of the thinking required is full-tilt.
This page exists to collate some good college resources. It’s very much a work in progress, but I’ll post to the blog when I do significant additions, so you needn’t keep checking back to see what’s been added.
Blog entries
- Study Tips and Gags from Ze Frank.
- My essay workflow - for what it’s worth, the various tools I use on my Mac when putting together an essay (this needs updating - I’ve evolved).
- Mind Mapping - part of the process above.
Language
- Provoc - a great, free vocab trainer and tester for Mac. You’ll need the vocab files for Hebrew and/or Greek.
- Paradigmatic by Sam Freney - learn your Hebrew paradigms. Learn them!
- Animated Hebrew - an excellent and comprehensive Hebrew paradigm and principal parts trainer. Runs in Shockwave online, or you can download the app to run locally.
Writing, Studying & Editing
- OmniFocus - premier organising app based on GTD. ($)
- PDFLab - reorder, rotate and combine PDFs.
- Accordance - the Bible software for Mac. ($)
- OmniGraffle Pro - mind-mapping and layout design app. ($)
- Scrivener - writing app. Invaluable. ($, free version available)
- Skim - PDF reader and annotator.
- DEVONThink Pro Office - database storage and AI for organising data. ($, free for non-profits - email them)
See also the applications I’ve listed here.
