Studying in a Korean university is a challenging and stressful experience. Most of the times students feel overloaded, do not have enough time to complete the assignments and eventually burn out. Nevertheless, when we look around, we can see many positive and productive students, who do well in every class, do not get stressed and manage their time perfectly. These students always have their tools that help them manage everything successfully during their studying process. These tools are smartphone applications that make student life easier and a lot more productive. This article is going to discuss these apps personally used by the author for making her studies smoother.
1. Daglo.
Daglo is a brilliant Korean app every student needs to have. During your university lectures, if you do not understand what Professor says, or if you miss anything important, or just do not feel like listening and understanding everything during couple of hours, Daglo will save you. With Daglo you can record the whole lecture and then convert the audio into a text format, so that you can read it later. If you prefer listening instead of reading, you can do it as well. You can do both simultaneously because as you listen, every sentence you are listening to is highlighted in the text, making it super comfortable. What is really amazing about this app is that you can record lecture that is in one language and convert into a text in another language. Thus, if you take classes in Korean, for instance, but have difficulties in understanding it, the app can convert the lecture script into English, or any other language provided by the app.
This app can be helpful not only in educational context, but also in everyday life. If you have an important meeting, you can use daglo, so that you do not miss or forget any important detail discussed during the meeting.
2. Notion.
Notion is a multifunctional app that helps you stay productive, creative and organized. The flexible structure of this app is helpful for personal use, for use in educational purposes and for team collaboration. Notion offers a wide variety of useful functions, and some most important ones are:
1. Notes and Documents:
- Create and edit text-based documents and notes.
- Use a simple and intuitive editor with support for rich media, including images, links, and embedded content.
2. Databases:
- Create and customize databases to store and organize information.
- Different views, such as table, board, list, and calendar, offer versatile ways to interact with data.
3. Task Management:
- Create to-do lists and tasks with due dates and reminders.
- Utilize Kanban-style boards for visual project management.
4. Collaboration:
- Share pages, databases, and workspaces with individuals or teams.
- Collaborate in real-time, and see changes immediately.
5. Knowledge Management:
- Use the app to store and organize knowledge, research, and resources.
- Link pages and databases to create a network of interconnected information.
6. Templates:
- Access a variety of templates for common use cases, such as meeting notes, project planning, and personal goals.
7. Integrations:
- Integrate with other tools and services, including calendars, Google Drive, and more.
- Use Notion's API to create custom integrations.
8. Customization:
- Customize the appearance of pages and databases with inline databases, cover images, and icons.
- Create personalized workflows and structures that suit individual or team needs.
This app can be used both online and offline, and you can access it both from the app and from the website. Great thing is that the data is synchronized everywhere and every time, therefore, if you edited your text offline from the app, it will be seen online from the web-page. This app will be of a great help for students studying in Korea because it provides all the functions needed to organize your studying process and become more productive.
3. Canva.
Canva is the app that I use almost every single day for different purposes: for my education, for my work as well as for personal use (social media). I used dozens of apps for presentations and I can confidently claim that Canva is the best option. Canva has hundreds of presentation templates separately for every category, field, major and so on. You can use any template you like, you can combine several templates, use icons, pictures, animations, to name but a few. This is also a perfect tool for team presentation since several members can work on the same project, edit the presentation, add changes, all of which will be seen by other members of the team. Just like Notion, Canva can be used both from the app and from the website, which makes it comfortable to work on your project with flexibility.
4. Papago.
Papago is a language translation app developed by Naver Corporation, a South Korean technology company. It is one of the most popular apps used by students in South Korea. However, there still are some students who do not know about it and its functions. Papago is designed to translate text, speech, and images between different languages. Most frequently it is used to translate imagines – take a picture of the book page (or anything containing a text) and translate the text into the language you desire. This is especially helpful for students that study in a language that they are not advanced in, helping them to translate everything quickly.
The app also provides a conversational mode, where you can engage in a conversation with someone who speaks a different language. Papago can assist in translating both sides of the conversation. Moreover, Papago can automatically detect the language of the input text or speech. This app works in an offline mode as well.
5. Prompie.
Prompie is an online to offline service launched in 2017. The main purpose of the Prompie app is to facilitate connections between clients and specialists in various fields, streamlining the process of hiring experts for specific tasks or services. Clients from different fields can create request forms for their specific needs. Specialists able to assist those needs can submit proposals for the corresponding requests. In general, Prompie offers three service categories:
1) Prompie Lesson ('프람피 레슨'): Connects specialists and clients for tutoring or lessons.
2) Prompie Academy ('프람피 아카데미'): Covers information about academies nationwide and various educational resources.
3) Prompie Direct ('프람피 다이렉트'): Allows clients to send request forms directly to specific specialists, facilitating the process of finding experts.
Students can benefit from Prompie by finding tutors for their specific studying area they find challenging. This app can also be used to learn something new and interesting to you.
6. Skillshare.
Skillshare is an educational platform for studying anything you desire. It is a perfect platform to enhance your knowledge studying your university subject-related lessons in a more straightforward way. Skillshare offers a wide variety of courses for each and every category, and a certificate of completion after a particular course is completed. Although there is a monthly subscription fee, it is absolutely low, especially considering that with a small fee you discover hundreds of free courses with certificates. Moreover, the first month is free for every subscriber, which secures your money in a way that you are always free to cancel your subscription if 1 month of free trial does not satisfy you. Skillshare can be accessed both from your app and from the website, hence, you can use it with full flexibility and improve your skills and background.
7. Vizabridge.
Make sure to download free Vizabridge app. Albeit not primarily educational, this app will assist you along your life in Korea helping not only with education, but also career, entertainment, visa and everything related to a life in Korea.
It is not difficult to find educational apps, nevertheless, it can be quite challenging to find really useful ones that can effectively and efficiently assist you. The abovementioned apps are all being personally used by the author and are all strongly recommended for being more productive as well as enhance background and knowledge.
What educational apps are you using and would recommend to others? Feel free to share your experience with us in the comment section!
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