Is your bag getting heavier as datelines and tests draw closer? I know mine is, and my left shoulder is literally hurting from the gold bar of a bag I carry around campus everyday. If you can’t afford to visit a physiotherapist, Wired has a cheaper solution to offer–we have sussed out some of the apps on the iOS that will definitely lighten your bag load without compromising your work.
1) Free Graphing Calculator (free)
Ever had a study plan foiled because you left your graphing calculator at home? Fear not, and head straight to the app store and download The Free Graphing Calculator. This works almost as well as your TI-84, and you even get to colour-code your graphs. What’s more, it’s completely free!
2) Papers ($18.98)
Instead of printing your notes and having to lug them around, you can now store all of them in Papers. While doing your readings, feel free to highlight important points and write notes next to them. Need to research for a paper? With built-in search engines for 8 online academic sources–ACM, NASA-ADS, arXiv, Google Scholar, IEEE Xplore, JSTOR, Pubmed, and Web of Science–Papers allows you to download a PDF version of the paper into your library immediately. No more excuses for not doing adequate research for your term paper!
3) USB Disk (free)
Good news to those who are always misplacing their USB flash drive (guilty!) or leaving them behind on school computers–USB Disk allows you to effortlessly back-up your files on your mobile device. Its simple and intuitive interface also makes viewing documents and PDF files on-the-go a breeze; it automatically restores your last viewing position when you re-open the app. Now you don’t have to worry about losing your term paper before it gets printed.
4) Penultimate ($1.28)
Penultimate by Evernote replaces the traditional notebook with its simple handwriting note-taking function. Penultimate is especially useful for those who need to draw diagrams and graphs in their notes. You can create as many notebooks as you like, with an infinite number of pages for each notebook. Note-taking has never been more fun!
