Studies & Deadlines

How it works

The mechanics of this kit, plainly — what runs and when, where the data lands, and what you look at.

• Term sweep runs mondays · 7am and keeps the This term dashboard fresh. Mondays — reads what the university emailed; moves dates, files marks, warns a week out.
• Week ahead runs sundays · 6pm and keeps the This term dashboard fresh. Sunday evening — the plan for the week, the marks by module, and where you stand, working shown.
• What is captured lands in the Programme record, which lives at Data/Programmes in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Modules record, which lives at Data/Modules in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Assessments record, which lives at Data/Assessments in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• What is captured lands in the Study log record, which lives at Data/Study Log in your vault — yours to open, search, and edit like any other file.
• The This term dashboard reads from the record and shows, at a glance: the term · still to hand in · assessments on record · average mark by module · credits earned · weighted average · this week's plan · study minutes, month by month · minutes by module · assessments · your modules · how this board works.

The wiring, in one breath: Study capture writes to Assessments · Study capture logs into Study log · Syllabus filing files into Modules · Syllabus filing files into Programme · Assessments shown by This term · Modules shown by This term · This term kept fresh by Term sweep · This term kept fresh by Week ahead · Term sweep run by Ivy · Week ahead run by Ivy · Ivy holds Study capture · Ivy holds Syllabus filing · Ivy holds Study planner · Ivy holds Revision coach.

Getting the most from it

A kit earns its place when it changes what you look at and what you say, not when it is installed. This is the rhythm that makes it pay.

• Say a deadline the way you'd say it to a friend — "essay due the 14th, 40%" — and Study capture puts it on the calendar. A mark, a moved date or an extension is the same sentence about the same piece.
• Drop the module handbook into Studies/ in your vault the week term starts and ask Ivy to file it. Syllabus filing reads every piece, weight and date from the document, and asks once about anything it has to interpret.
• Read This term on Sunday evening, after the Week ahead has run: the plan is on the board and in one card, and "Still to hand in" is the honest list. Change anything by replying to the card.
• Tick a piece off by telling Ivy — "submitted the literature review". The marks on the board are the record, not a checkbox.
• Before an exam, ask Ivy to quiz you from your own notes. Questions come before answers; that is the point. Ask for feedback on a draft with the brief and the criteria beside it, and expect to be told where it is thin, never to have it rewritten.
• Mention the hours as you go — "two hours on stats this morning" — and the study line draws itself by month and by module. Look at it once a month, and read the Weighted average with its working: it counts marked work only, and says so.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. The pieces are ordinary agents, routines, records and dashboards, so anything you know about shaping those applies. Retire whatever earns nothing.

Things people usually change first

Say any of these in chat, or edit them on the kit’s page in the app.

• The hours a week you can give, and which days are already spoken for.
• When the Sunday plan arrives, or turning it off and keeping just the calendar and the list.
• What your institution allows Ivy to help with — the line never moves past feedback and structure, but it can be stricter.
• Whether the Monday sweep reads your email at all, or the record is kept only from what you say and drop in.

Your first run

Installing starts a short setup conversation — not a form. Answer roughly, correct later.

1. Installing ends with "Meet Ivy" — a short conversation, not a form. You say what you're studying and where, name the modules this term, and give the next few deadlines; each lands on the record as you say it. Ivy asks one standing question and keeps the answer: what your institution says about using AI in your work.
2. A module handbook or a screenshot of the assessment page dropped into Studies/ fills the rest — every piece with its weight and due date, read from the document. Nothing is invented: a weight the handbook doesn't print stays blank.
3. Skip the conversation and the door quietly stays open: until a module is on the register, the kit page, the board and Ivy's chat keep the offer ready. The first module, however it arrives, closes it.
4. Every Monday at seven the Term sweep reads what the university has emailed — a deadline moved, an extension granted, marks released — and asks for email access the first time it runs, never in the conversation. Every Sunday at six the Week ahead leaves one card: the plan by day, anything due inside the fortnight, and where you stand with the working shown. If the register is still empty when either runs, it does nothing and invites you to add the term instead.

Watch the first pass, then tell it what you would have done differently — that correction teaches it more than any setup could.

The essentials

Learning, preferences and run costs work the same in every kit — so they are covered once, in the Kits guide.

Living with a Kit — the Kits guide →

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