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Best ''back to school'' app

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ErikiPhone

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hi, curious to know. name your best ''back to school'' application that you have purchased going back to college or that you are showing your kids to make them study more ;)
 
[app]iHomework[/app] is a great planner type of app. Keeps track of grades, assignments, class locations, etc. Neat little app that I can see myself using a lot once the semester kicks into gear again :)
 
I'm using iProcrastinate to keep track of my homework and due dates, and use Evernote to take/sync notes between my mac and iPhone.
 
Nursing students may find the Davis Drug Guide app to be invaluable. I use it all the time. It makes life so much easier not having to carry around a drug guide and not having to index every drug. Down side: it's $50...but worth every bit of it.
Aside from that, I find that the native apps are very useful. I use Calendar as my organizer, Calculator to do dosage calculations, Voice Recorder to record lectures, Notes to jot down quick messages from the teacher, Mail to forward my school email to my G-Mail account, Clock to make sure I'm not late and to wake me up during my power naps, and oh yea, I can't forget my TomTom app to show me the way to get to school (since it's a two hours drive, no joke)...and iPod to help with the drive, lol.
 
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I just bought iHomework. iStudiez Pro looks good as well, I may try that out too if the price drops at all.
 
Pi Cubed. Best "Calculator" - Math App by far. Something every Math, Natural Science Student needs.

Even better for the Students: A lite version with 0 Costs available. Save the money to spend for Christmas ;)
 
RiceRacerDX said:
Nursing students may find the Davis Drug Guide app to be invaluable. I use it all the time. It makes life so much easier not having to carry around a drug guide and not having to index every drug. Down side: it's $50...but worth every bit of it.
Aside from that, I find that the native apps are very useful. I use Calendar as my organizer, Calculator to do dosage calculations, Voice Recorder to record lectures, Notes to jot down quick messages from the teacher, Mail to forward my school email to my G-Mail account, Clock to make sure I'm not late and to wake me up during my power naps, and oh yea, I can't forget my TomTom app to show me the way to get to school (since it's a two hours drive, no joke)...and iPod to help with the drive, lol.
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Is Davis Drug Guide better then Lexi-Complete? i use lexi-complete but this is the 2nd time ive heard of davis.
 
anwsered my own question.. tried to search simple drug vicodin or hydrocodone and davis drug guide came up with zero results while as lexi-complete comes up with 6 types. :)
 
Are there useful study aides out there for specific subjects?

Like specific for maths or science or something.

I could really do with a study aide for physics or chem or maths.

Any suggestions would be sweet.
 
jacobgaul said:
anwsered my own question.. tried to search simple drug vicodin or hydrocodone and davis drug guide came up with zero results while as lexi-complete comes up with 6 types. :)
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I just launched Davis and it found vicodin after only typing in "vico." I like Davis, because it tells you everything you need for your practice. It presents the information just like the book does. It has everything from dosing, chemical and therapeutic actions, drug and Y-site compatibility, and just about everything you can think of. One down side is that you can't actually select two or more drugs to see if they're compatible with each other (similar to what epocrates does)...but then again, I've never had to do that. I've only ever had to check on two drugs at a time and each drug lists what they aren't compatible with anyway. As for how it compares with lexi-complete...I don't know if a $50 subscription app can even compare with a $300 app. I would've gotten lexi-complete, but I don't know about renewing that subscription for another $300/yr though as it says in the app description.
 
Nothing can match lexi-complete in my opinion...I use it nearly every day and always has everything I ever need.

Well worth the $300 a year subscription.
 
wingnut8 said:
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I just bought iHomework. iStudiez Pro looks good as well, I may try that out too if the price drops at all.
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iStudiez is worth every cent, I love it.
 
[app]Instaviz[/app] would be the best mindmapper for if you need to be able to link more than just mother to child nodes.
 
I was thinking about getting a homework app for college, but I might just utilize my Google Calendar account and do it that way and set it up for sms notifications.
 
nullx86 said:
Things, iProcastinate, and SchoolHouse are the apps I use. That and I have a calendar above my computer that shows my assignments.
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Great app... i love using this. Really makes it easy to see what i have due in which classes. Hopefully he will get the desktop app to sync with the iPhone app here soon.
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
Great app... i love using this. Really makes it easy to see what i have due in which classes. Hopefully he will get the desktop app to sync with the iPhone app here soon.
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+1.. Extremely useful for me too! :)
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