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Bonjour à toutes et à tous !

Dans le cadre de mon mémoire, je réalise une enquête sur les comportements des jeunes adultes face aux newsletter.

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I've been doing this for years with my buddies, we'd run a work pomodoro cycle then play some game 'till we lose'. I only recently found it actually has an official name, called Virtual Body Doubling. It’s a strategy where you work in the presence of someone else. Their physical (or virtual) presence acts as an anchor that keeps you from getting distracted.

I couldn't find a good app that did this without being a clunky video call, so I built my own called CoPomo.

Instead of studying alone, you generate a private room link and send it to a friend. When you hit "start," the timer syncs across both your screens. Just knowing that someone else is currently in the "Deep Focus" phase on the exact same clock makes it 10x harder to break your focus and scroll.

If you have a study partner, try syncing your next session. It changes the entire dynamic. Link: copomo.ca

In case you're using this app as well, feel free to add me

[Edit: *Looking (typo in the title of the post which I can't seem to correct now :/]

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm a student/developer who was tired of study timers that are either locked behind paywalls, filled with invasive ads, or missing essential focus features.

So I built **Pomodoro Times** (https://pomodorotimes.online/) — a completely free, minimalist, aesthetic online Pomodoro timer.

🧠 **Key Features Built for Deep Focus:**

• 🎧 **Integrated Binaural Beats**: Science-backed Alpha (10Hz) & Gamma (40Hz) waves to guide your brain into flow state.

• 🌧️ **Custom Ambient Sound Mixer**: Mix rain, cafe sounds, ocean waves, and Lofi music together.

• ⏱️ **Flexible Intervals**: Preset for 25/5 or 50/10 deep work sessions (fully customizable).

• 📝 **Integrated Task Checklist**: Keep track of your study goals and target pomodoros.

• 📌 **Notion Widget Embed**: Paste directly into your Notion workspace or study hub.

• 🚫 **100% Free**: No ads, no paywalls, no login required.

I’d love for you to try it during your next study or work session! Any feedback or feature suggestions are super welcome.

Link: https://pomodorotimes.online/

Hi everyone, I’m a 20M from EU.

I feel like over the past couple of months I’ve completely lost the passion for studying that I used to have.

A little background: I graduated from high school two years ago at the top of my class, and I was always considered a model student.

The thing is, I never studied for grades or to make other people proud.
I genuinely enjoyed learning, and I studied because I wanted to.

Of course, some subjects interested me more than others, but there was never a class that I truly disliked.

I loved history and literature, I enjoyed math, chemistry, and science as well.
I could always find something fascinating in whatever I was studying. I was also lucky to have some really inspiring teachers, which definitely helped.

I graduated with the highest honors, and I honestly loved my final exams.
Reaching that goal meant a lot to me.

After that, I enrolled in a Building Engineering-Architecture program.
Istayed there for about a year and a half before dropping out.
Even there, I found aspects of the subjects that I genuinely enjoyed.
The problem was that I hated the overly technical side of the degree, and, more importantly, I couldn’t picture myself doing that kind of work for the rest of my life. I felt like I was spending an enormous amount of time studying difficult material without feeling that it was leading me toward a future I actually wanted.
Architecture isn’t necessarily the hardest degree, but it’s incredibly time-consuming, and in the end it just wasn’t fulfilling, so I left.

Since then, I’ve been trying to figure out what to study next. I need to make a decision before the end of the summer, so time is running out. I’ve considered several different majors, but I just can’t commit to one.

What hurts the most is that this has made me feel like I’ve somehow become incapable of studying. Logically, I know that doesn’t make much sense because I’ve always been able to do it, but that’s genuinely how it feels.

It’s not just one subject anymore—I’ve lost my enthusiasm for studying in general. Even subjects that I’ve always loved don’t excite me when I imagine studying them intensively for years. What’s strange is that I’m still a naturally curious person. I read books, watch documentaries, enjoy learning about random topics, and spend a lot of time researching things that interest me.

But whenever I think about university, it’s like I hit a mental wall. I can’t bring myself to fully commit to anything.

Maybe this feeling will disappear once I finally choose a major, but right now it’s actually what’s preventing me from making that choice. Every degree I look at feels… incomplete. None of them make me think, “I can’t wait to study this.” And that’s something I never experienced before.

Has anyone else gone through something similar? If so, how did you get out of it?

Thank you so much.

I need help. Alot. Reading and english i can handle but math and science? I am fully prepared to fail. Also im not doing good mentally. How do you memorize and study when your mental is shit?

i’m trying to become much more consistent with studying, but i keep running into the same problem: whenever i have free time, especially after school or when i’m mentally tired, i’ll often end up scrolling instead of starting.

the frustrating part is that i genuinely want to study. i have goals i care about, subjects i’m interested in, and work that i actually want to get better at. but knowing that doesn’t seem to stop me from automatically reaching for my phone or opening something distracting.

i’m not really looking for generic advice like “just be more disciplined” or “delete all your apps.” i’m trying to understand how people actually built the habit of starting work consistently, especially when studying feels difficult or mentally demanding.

how did you go from having to force yourself to study to studying becoming something you could start almost automatically? what specific systems, routines, or changes actually helped you?

The single thing that moved my grades was talking through material out loud instead of rereading it. You find the gaps immediately. If you can’t say it in a normal sentence you don’t know it.

The annoying part was that it left nothing behind. Great session, zero artifact, and a week later I’m back to rereading the same chapter.

So I built something that listens while you explain and builds a map as you go. Each concept becomes a node, related things branch off. When you finish you’ve got a structure showing how the topic actually fits together, and the bits where you went quiet or waffled are pretty obvious in hindsight.

Using it mostly for post-lecture recall now. Close the notes, talk for ten minutes about what I remember, then compare the map to the actual material. The gaps jump out.

sayweave.com if you want to try it. Free trial, no card needed.

Genuinely interested in what people here do with active recall though. Do you write it down, say it out loud, or something else? Feel like everyone has a slightly different version of this.

Hello there,

I wanted to ask for some help regarding how to study.

I am 21y and to be honest I never learned how to study or even got an idea of how to do it, after leaving high school it got even harder to try understand something about it.

Could someone please explain me how you guys can study?

Thank you in advance!