I’m a student, and I’m always needing a way to organize my upcoming projects/tasks. In the past I have used a Free app called iProcrastinate Mobile. But when I saw iStudent Pro, I just had to try it out and review it.

When you first open iStudent Pro, you see 4 views. Today, Calendar, Assignments, and Courses.

The Today view shows what classes you have for the day.

The calendar view shows you your exams and schedule for hte coming months. Tilting the device sideways presents a beautiful landscape calendar. Assignments shows your upcoming assignments and completed assignments.

The assignments view obviously is where you see your upcoming assignments. There are two sections of the Assignments section. Completed and Current. Under each, you can sort your assignments by Priority, Course, and Due Date. You can also easily add and edit your assignments.

The last view is the courses view.  Courses are easy to add and edit. You can changed the days of the classes, times, instructor, and more. There is just SO MUCH info that you can add about your courses.

The bottom line is that this app is excellent. There are a few things that could be changed. The two things that bother me are the app icon badge alerts and choosing due dates for assignments. For the badge alerts, I would like to see more customization for that. For example, a setting to have the badge show number of assignments due within the week, or the next day. Just more customization. And for the choosing of due dates, instead of just having dates, show the day of the week as well as having a “Tomorrow” button.

I definitely recommend this app. Its available in the app store for $2.99. [link]

I plan to write a much better review when I’m actually taking classes. Its summer now though.

Bento is an organizer. It’s as simple as that. It organizes everything in your life from what you have, to what you do, to even what you have to do! Bento uses databases to create custom templates to store information. There is a way to create your templates, and even edit the pre-made ones, but the pre-made ones are pretty well made! You can add and take away different forms within a template, either from the desktop or from the iPhone. The app(s) can help a bunch for dieters or athletes, for there is a template custom for both of you. I am really surprised at how well organized the app(s) are. At first I seemed a bit overwhelmed (I like to try and figure out how to use something without reading, or any help =P). In the desktop version, down in the left corner is where you can add a database. Within each database there are groups called collections. Within the collections lies the organization. You can make one database of to do’s, and then you can add different collections, such as what I have, tests, reviews, chores, homework, projects, etc.. You can also integrate you’re address book and calendar into the app! In the iPhone version, you add a database by going to the “New Library” tab. Then, once within the library you created, you can create a new item. Once you save it, go back into the item and you can either add a new collection or put that item in a collection. In the iPhone app you can either view in beautiful cover flow or in a list view. I prefer the list personally =]. Within cover flow if you tap the info button or double tap a database, you can see the collections within that database, pretty cool right =D. 

Finally, syncing. Syncing is what makes these apps better than any other apps out there. Yes there’s todo syncing, and other apps that sync. But I haven’t sen yet any apps that are this powerful and sync. It’s kind of hard to always bring your laptop everywhere (or your mac if you’re like me =]), so the iPhone version makes Bento the most powerful organizer out there! And yes you can quote me on that =].

Overall, if you’re just not organized, I highly suggest this. I thoiught I was organized, but once I got this, it was just so helpful. I realized that jotting down hen you exercised, what you ate, what you NEED to do, what you WANT to do, can all very much help with priorities, and setting them straight. So go get it =] for only 5 dollars on the iPhone, and only 50 for the mac!.

And go to their website (filemaker) to get the desktop version. LINK
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