Guides
Practical guides for life, learning, course planning and the Life, Sorted. app.
- How Many Hours a Week Should You Spend on an Online Course?
Calculate how many hours a week your online course needs from its remaining workload, your target date and the time you genuinely have.
- How to Catch Up on an Online Course Without Cramming the Missed Work
Fallen behind on an online course? Decide whether to catch up or replan, keep the progress you have made and build a realistic schedule from today.
- Online Course Completion Rates: Why So Many People Don’t Finish (and What Actually Helps)
Online course completion rates are often quoted without context. See what MOOC research actually found — and the practical steps that help you finish.
- How to Finish Online Courses Fast (Without Turning It Into a Second Job)
Got an online course sitting half-finished? Here’s how to work out what’s left, build a realistic plan and actually get the bloody thing finished.
- Study Schedule Template: A Simple Weekly Plan You’ll Actually Follow
Use this simple study schedule template to plan an unfinished online course around the time you actually have — and adjust it when life gets in the way.
- How to Create a Study Schedule That Actually Survives Real Life
Learn how to create a study schedule around your real availability, remaining workload and actual progress — without building a timetable you abandon in three days.
- Procrastinating Studying? How to Restart the Course You’ve Been Avoiding
Procrastinating studying an unfinished online course? Stop trying to restart perfectly. Work out what’s left, make a realistic plan and start again from today.
- Rereading vs Active Recall: What Works Better?
Rereading notes can feel productive without proving you remember them. Learn why active recall and testing yourself expose the gaps that actually need study.
- Active Recall Study Methods: 7 Ways to Actually Use It
Active recall sounds simple: close the notes and test yourself. Here are 7 practical active recall study methods for courses, exams, coding and more.
- How to Do Spaced Repetition
Learn how to do spaced repetition properly: recall first, check what you missed, fix the gaps and review again at sensible intervals so the material actually sticks.
- How to Use the Feynman Technique for Studying
Learn how to use the Feynman Technique for studying: explain a focused topic from memory, expose the gaps, check the source, simplify and retest.
- Pretesting Before Studying: How the Effect Works
Pretesting can expose knowledge gaps and focus the learning that follows. Here is how to use questions before studying without treating the score as failure.
- How to Make Active Recall Questions
Learn how to write active recall questions that go beyond definitions, expose knowledge gaps and test whether you can explain and apply what you studied.
- Build a personal system you can actually trust
A practical way to turn Life, Sorted. into a dependable home for tasks, dates, notes, lists and open loops without spending your life maintaining it.
- A weekly reset that actually makes next week easier
A full practical walkthrough for reviewing tasks, dates, waiting items, errands, life admin and priorities without turning Sunday into an administration project.
- Tasks, subtasks, calendar or lists? Put things where they stay useful
A practical guide to choosing the right home for actions, appointments, multi-step work and collections so Life, Sorted. stays clear instead of becoming one giant list.
- Use goals without turning your life into a permanent project
How to set meaningful outcomes, choose milestones and actions, pause or release goals, and keep direction useful without making every part of life measurable.
- Plan around low energy, busy weeks and real-life interruptions
How to use capacity, task size, Today, What now?, routines and weekly planning when your available time and energy are uneven.
- Get Life, Sorted. useful in ten minutes
Set up the minimum, capture what is already in your head, and leave the rest for later.
- Capture first. Organise later.
How to get things out of your head without turning capture into another admin job.
- How to choose Today’s Three
Three priorities can be enough — if they are actually priorities rather than a shorter to-do list.
- Tasks, goals and goal actions: what is the difference?
Keep everyday actions simple while still connecting the right work to something bigger.
- A weekly reset without productivity theatre
Review what changed, make a few decisions, then get out of the app and live the week.
- Plan for the week you are actually going to have
Use capacity planning before a busy, disrupted or low-energy week becomes an unrealistic plan.
- Find things again without building a filing system
Use Search and Saved together so useful information stays easy to reach without duplicating it.
- Turn a vague task into something you can actually start
Use subtasks, notes and links when a task needs a little structure without becoming a full project.
- Keep appointments useful before and after you book them
Store the time, place, notes and link together so an appointment is more than a date on a grid.
- Build lists you can reuse instead of rewriting
Use sections, favourites and reusable list shapes for shopping, packing, questions and repeat checklists.
- Stop carrying follow-ups and renewals in your head
Use Waiting On and Life Admin for the boring open loops that are easy to forget until they become urgent.
- When something should be a note — and when it should be reference
Separate thoughts you are developing from facts you expect to look up again.
- Use routines without turning ordinary life into a score
Track recurring things as reminders and patterns, not as a streak you have to protect.
- How saving works in Life, Sorted.
How your changes are saved on this device and how to back up your information.