Life Situations

How to Organize Class Materials

A filing system that survives multiple courses — folders, notes, and the search-first approach that beats categorization.

What you'll learn

Building elaborate folder hierarchies. Most students lose time maintaining the system. Flat structure + good search + naming conventions wins.

Fennie keeps your uploaded notes searchable across courses and semesters, so search-first works.

Digital scales; paper has retention advantages. Hybrid: handwrite, then photograph or transcribe.

100GB cloud for most undergrads. Med and law students closer to 500GB.

Yes — uploaded notes and PDFs become searchable across the system.

Fennie generates Daily Plans that build these habits automatically — start free.

Structuring evening and weekend study sessions, managing energy, and avoiding the burnout that ends most working-student attempts.

Maintaining study habits on the road — offline access, low-bandwidth practice, and managing time-zone shifts.

Solo study that works — environment design, self-accountability, and avoiding the loneliness drift.

Pre-med is competitive and burnout-prone — here's how to maintain GPA, clinical hours, and your sanity simultaneously.