→ Bruna, 19, brazilian.
→ infp
→ psychology student slightly obsessed with fictional characters and middle aged actresses
→ multifandom mess including lots of tv shows
→ living a hayley atwell and lana parrilla appreciation life
Bruna, 20. I like tv shows, musicals, and crying over fictional characters. Multifandom mess. // studyblr: brunastudies
Settings >
General > background app refresh: off
General > accessibility > reduce motion: on
General > handoff & suggested apps: off (unless you need it)
General > accessibility > increase contrast: reduce transparency. (This makes some things uglier but REALLY helps your charge last longer)
Bluetooth: off (when you aren’t using it)
Display & brightness > auto-brightness: off (turn it down lower than halfway to preserve battery)
Sounds > vibrate on ring: off
Privacy > location settings: make sure only the apps that need your location are switched on
Privacy > diagnostics and usage: don’t send
Privacy > advertising > limit ad tracking: on
iTunes and App Store: turn off all automatic downloads
General > spotlight search > only check what you need (eg. I only have contacts, apps and music checked)
Make all these changes and your phone will run like fifty times faster and it’ll preserve your battery power.OK, I did every single one of these things, and I’m about to tell you that this is not a fucking joke. My battery has lasted twice as long as it normally does ever since I made these changes and they honestly aren’t even a big deal, not a single one has effected use. Mom holy FUCK.
This list includes fiction, non-fiction & classic literature.
Other; including Middle Eastern, Filipino, Indian, Biblical, Russian, etc. and crossovers.
Enjoy!

It is about to be the start of the next academic year so I decided to post this masterlist. Here are all of my original study posts so far and they are sorted by topics.
All of the information below can actually be found on this page (/mystudytips). It is constantly updated so if you want to look for my posts in an organised way you can always go there.
General
Start off your semester
Motivation
- Setting Goals - #1
- Should I switch my studies? (answered)
- How to deal with procrastination? (answered)
Study Skills
Focus/Concentration
- Tools to help you stay focus - #12
- Tips on staying focused - #14
- How to shake off restlessness during study session (answered)
Study Management/Planning
Building study habits
- Great study habits and developing them (answered)
- Good study habits for high school students (answered)
- What is HabitRPG? - #4
Lectures/Class
Essay-writing
Reading
Memory
General Note-taking
- A summary on how to take good lecture notes - #13
- Type or write? (answered)
- Type or write? updated + my approach (answered)
- Is writing notes on iPad a good idea? (answered)
- Should I take notes right now? (answered)
- Consolidating lecture notes and textbook notes (answered)
- How to get better handwriting? (answered)
Flashcards
OneNote and other applications
- How to take/organise notes? (feat. OneNote) (answered)
- Updated and comprehensive post on how to take lecture notes on OneNote (answered)
- How to use Cornell note-taking method on OneNote: Great for taking class notes! - #9
- How do I use OneNote? (answered)
- Introducing Notability
Exams and Tests
- A Complete Exam Study Guide - #10
- How to deal with anxiety before and during exams? (answered)
- How to study for exams effectively? (answered)
- Demotivated because of unsatisfactory grades? (answered)
- Tips to prepare for take home exams
Printables
- My printables
- Summer planning printables (mine)
- Semester planner printables (mine)
- Note-taking printables (mine)
Organisation
- My general study organisation system (answered)
- My high school organisation system (answered)
- My notebook organisation system in high school (answered)
Study space
Stationery
- Pen recommendations (answered)
- The highlighters I use in bullet journal (answered)
- My pens, pencils and notebooks (answered)
- A comparison between Zebra Mildliners and Optex Care - whether they will smudge // with photo (answered)
Tech-stuff
- What’s on my iPad mini? - #8
- iPad Air or iPad mini for school? (answered)
- Free apps/programs (that can substitute expensive ones) (answered)
- Laptop recommendations for school (answered)
- Which macbook pro should I get for college? (answered)
- The app I use for writing and organising documents on iPad (answered)
- The stylus I use for writing on iPad (answered)
- A comparison of stylus (answered)
Amazing resources
- Free online courses - #3
- English Reading and Writing free online course
- College Info Geek - more college tips, and free book
College and University
Personal records
Getting unsatisfactory grades?
- Tips for students who may have unsatisfactory grades at the moment (answered)
- Being called “you’re trying too hard”? (answered)
Anxiety and depression / Feeling unhappy?
- Dealing with depression, stress and anxiety (answered)
- Can’t study because of depression? (answered)
- Will studyblr help with my anxiety and perfectionism? (answered)
- Anxious about getting your results? (answered)
Sleep and Breaks
Summer Posts
With The X-Files officially coming back, there are people who want to get into the show (or do a rewatch) and then see that there are 202 episodes (and two movies) to catch up with and that can be overwhelming.
Here’s my quick guide to what you have to watch in order to get a true feeling for the enormous scope of this show, its storyline and its characters. Keep in mind these aren’t necessarily my favorite episodes but ones I feel you MUST watch to get the X-Files experience.
I’ll include a list of the “should watch” episodes at the end (as well as a list of episodes with some of the greatest MSR moments) because some truly good episodes will be left off the must watch list.
This is a very bare bones list for people who want to get through this series fairly quickly and not miss anything vital.

Study Techniques:
- SQ3R Reading
- The Pomodoro technique
- Online Pomodoro timer
- Feynman Technique
- 100 Things to do in your study break
- Develop active learning strategies
- Cramming (last minute option)
Study Methods, Tips, and Resources:
- How to make flashcards (electronic and paper)
- What to write on flashcards
- Uses for flashcards
- Creating and using mindmaps
- Studying using textbooks
- The benefits of textbooks
- How to annotate
- Tools for referencing
- Tips for visual learners
- How to read journal articles critically (by marielstudies)
- Top 5 Study Tips to Achieve your Study Goals
- How to pull an all nighter
- How to pull an all nighter (2)
- Studying vocabulary
- Study guides
- How to create a study guide (by studyspoinspo)
- Using whiteboards
- Assignment Calculator
- Learning how to learn (by strive-for-da-best)
- Get good grades (Youtube)
Memory:
- Learn how to memorise and find the memory techniques that work best for you.
- Here’s an interesting article about long term memory.
- 6 research tested ways to improve your memory.
- Here’s an ask about how to memorise material.
- An ask about forgetting material within a few hours.
- Some memory tips (by astackoftextbooks)
- Learn instead of memorising
- Thinking and memorising
Time Management:
- How to prioritise tasks
- Apps for scheduling
- Creating a revision timetable
- A post about making a timetable (by grxeek).
- How to keep your revision focused
- An online study planner.
Motivation/Procrastination:
- Reasons to study
- Blocking apps/extensions for phones and computers.
- Reasons to study now
- 10 tips for getting started on an academic task
- How to deal with family distracting you from study
- How to stop procrastinating (Youtube)
- 10 Tips for managing procrastination
- Questions to ask yourself for motivation
- How to improve your concentration
- Quick concentration tips
- Get Motivated (Wikihow)
- Choosing the appropriate study environment
- Short and sharp motivation
Stress Relief:
- Stress relief techniques and ideas
- The 10 Best Yoga Poses for Stress Relief
- Relaxing Yoga Poses for Beginners
- 20 Easy Steps to Stress Relief
- Relaxation Techniques
- 23 Science Backed Ways to Reduce Stress
- 25 Destressing Techniques
- Deep Breathing Exercises
- Three Guided Relaxation Videos
- Vent Anonymously Online
- A sleep calculator here which will calculate when you should go to sleep/wake up (depending on what you’re working out) based on sleep cycles. This will make sure that you wake up refreshed and ready to work.
- Problems with sleep
- Failure anxiety
- Do nothing for 2 minutes
- Calm (meditation site)
Health:
- There’s also some information here about studying with mental illness from MIND.
- There’s a really great post here about depression in university (by landofstories)
- There’s a similar post here about studying with depression (by bloggerforstudentprogress)
- Studying with ADHD
- Studying maths with dyscalculia
- Managing test anxiety
- Self help: test anxiety
- Emergency Compliment (for when you’re feeling down)
- Studying with dyslexia
- Revision and exams for people with dyslexia
- Study skills for dyslexic students
- How I coped with OCD at university
- Study skills and OCD
- Study skills and OCD PDF
Music:
- Nature sounds in calmsound
- Sounds of rain
- Beethoven
- Coffee shop sounds
- More coffee shop sounds
- Mix sounds (soundrown)
- Sounds of the ocean
- Whitenoise
- Study mixes on 8tracks
- Music to boost concentration
For the exam:
- Exam preparation
- Exam life hacks (by studyblob)
- The best ways to prepare for exams
- Exam tips
- The day before an exam
- Tips on Taking Multiple-Choice Tests
- How to write a great essay (by englishlit-chic)
- Psychology Essay Exams (gives an example and how to answer)
- Looking after yourself after exams
- Oral tests and exams
- Writing and presenting a good speech
Links, Games, etc.:
- Live panda camera (for destressing; you wouldn’t believe the amount of time I spend watching this camera).
- Live animals
- Try to find the ten gnomes
- Origami
- Create your own nebula
- Easy magic tricks
- DIY Home Spa (BY @recoverykitty)
- Brownie in a cup
- Cookie in a cup

hello everyone! i know some of you will be going back to school soon, so i decided to make a huge masterpost that will hopefully help some of you out!
NOTETAKING
- how to take pretty notes
- notetaking from a textbook
- how to make mindmaps
- different types of notes
- mindmapping.com
- 99 mindmapping resources
- tips for taking efficient notes
- effective notetaking
ORGANIZATION
- staying organized
- organization tips
- get organized in high school
- ten tips for staying organized
- colour coding organization
- tips for keeping your desk clean
PRINTABLES
- form your habits
- study and revision planner (2)
- student planner
- daily and essay planners
- poetry terms chart
- exam studying pack
- loads of printables
- 2015 calender
- chalkboard style to do list
READING
TESTS AND STUDYING
- test taking guide
- how to make a study guide (2, 3, 4, 5)
- study tips (2, 3, 4)
- study techniques
- how to get straight a’s
- how to study
- making study schedules (2, 3, 4)
- preparing for an exam (2, 3)
- the basics of efficient studying
- how to be an efficient test taker
- how to review in less time
- things NOT to do when studying
- on test anxiety (2, 3)
- study skills assessment
- how to pull an all-nighter effectively
- tips for answering multiple choice
- how to answer exam questions
WRTING AND ENGLISH
MATH
- math practice
- math resources
- free math help
- learn basically anything
- graphing calculator
- learn any math
- a bunch of calculators
- square root calculator
- cube root calculator
PRODUCTIVITY
- how to wake up earlier
- how to have a productive day
- stop procrastinating (2)
- how long to nap?
- time management tips
- tips to help you focus
- energy throughout the day
STRESS AND WELLNESS
STUDY PLAYLISTS
- minimalism
- studying
- film scores
- you’ve got this
- essential indie
- pencil lead and lined paper
- minimalist
- celestial
- love that aesthetic
- space race
- sunday morning
BULLET JOURNALLING
- bulletjournal.com
- bullet journal setup (2, 3, 4, 5)
- minimalist bullet journal
- bullet journal in a binder
- pages to start
- health tracker
- how to use a chronodex
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
- diy school supplies (2, 3, 4)
- back to school supplies haul (2, 3, 4, 5)
- finals survival guide
- top secret study tips
- how to take the best notes
- study hacks
JOURNALLING, ART JOURNALLING, AND SKETCHBOOKS
- journaling 101
- what to put in a sketchbook
- 100 sketchbook ideas
- 119 journal prompts
- 50 art journal prompts
- lists to make
- how to collage in your art journal
- collaging for beginners
- how to start a sketchbook
- art journaling 101
- how to start a journal (2)
- what to put in a blank notebook
- keeping creative diary pages
- turn an old book into an art journal
- how to journal
- what is an art journal?
- must have art journal supplies
- journal themes
- art journal techniques
- art journal inspiration
MISC

soooooo school is starting in about a month for me and i gotta start thinking about Time Management: the #1 creator of stress tbh ~ so here are some methods of how to successfully manage yo time during school or breaks :]
bullet journaling!!!
- the official website
- my set up [vid / post]
- bujo masterpost
to do lists!!!
- super cute notepad
- use it + stick to it
- make smart goals
- cute index cards
- weekly plan layout
- sticky note method
planners!!!
- add a chronodex
- detailed monthly view
- whiteboard on wall
- digital weekly plan
- plan using excel
- +also planner tag
while u study!!!
- custom computer timer
- pomodoro method
- an infographic for ^^
- make a study schedule
- plan revision in advance
- five day study plan
- increase productivity
- app manages time for u
+ masterposts!!!
- productive summers
- succeed @ school
- ap world history
- web resources
- ap psychology
- bullet journals
- ace ur exams
- stress reliefs
- annotations
- essay writin
- printables
- sat help
good luck managing ur time!! xoxo sareena

hiii! so ive seen SO MANY printables made by the lovely studyblr community and i thought i would compile a bunch on this post! ~not mine~
- today goals / planner
- cute backpack tag
- daily planner / sched
- checklist for the day
- assignment planner
- essay planning
- top 3 / to do daily
- poetry term glossary
- huge revision pack
- rainbow daily plan
- year / week / day
- 100 words to know
- self esteem journal
- form good habits
- exam study pack
- weekly planner
- 30 minute schedule
- printable masterpost
++ masterposts
i personally love the 30 minutes schedule and have adapted it to my bullet journal ~ hope this was helpful! xoxo sareena
Hey everyone! It’s been a long time in the making, but I’m finally back to posting more printables.. just in time for those of you who go back to school soon. I have 4 to share! As usual, my complete collection of printables can be viewed and downloaded here (or click here for the quick link to my Google Drive).
‘Goal Getter’ goals planner
Someone called me a ‘goal getter’ once and I thought that was the cutest, motivational saying! So I put it on a printable! *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*
Month at a Glance
This is perfect for summarizing your entire month and it’s events on one handy piece of paper. Keep track of birthdays, goals, events and ideas. *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*
Grade Tracker
This would be perfect to keep in your class binders. Print off as many as you need depending on how many assignments you have per class, or combine different classes on the same page. *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*
Defintions
For those vocab tests or general studying! *CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD*
That’s all for now, but more will be posted soon! Let me know what you think!xo