I'm Organizing My School Life With AI

My school life used to work like this: I found out about a test the night before, generated a summary with AI, crammed, hoped, and let the grade be what it would.

11th grade is when the grades start counting toward university points, so I finally did something about it. Not by studying harder. By organizing everything so the studying part has time to happen.

One place for everything

Every subject is a project in Vikunja, the self-hosted task manager on my server. Every test and deadline is a task with a due date. Homework, exam dates, project hand-ins, all of it lives in one place instead of a paper planner I would stop opening by October.

Getting the dates in was the funny part. The tests go on a phone calendar, and Hungary banned phones in school by law. So I enter events from my smart watch. The same watch that tracks my sleep is also how upcoming tests reach the system. Looks like I am checking the time.

A sync job runs every afternoon and moves calendar events into Vikunja automatically. The task list always matches reality, no manual copying.

The prep window rule

The whole thing comes down to one rule: every test type has a prep window. A témazáró, the big unit tests, gets seven days of light review. Small tests get two to three days. The weekly German vocab test gets the night before.

Once a day the bot reads the next two weeks and checks for open windows. If one opened, I get exactly one short message: subject, test name and date, what to review, how many minutes today. One message is the daily cap. Outside a window it is silent, and it never brings up homework, because I do not do homework and it knows that. It took me a while to appreciate how good that is. A system that knows when to shut up is the system that survives the school year.

The material

The actual studying runs on Anki. The bot builds a deck from a subject and loads it through AnkiConnect on my PC, so my condensed AI notes turn into spaced repetition cards days early. Ten minutes a day across a week instead of one doomed evening.

Status

School starts in September, so no real results yet. What I know already: the calendar flows into Vikunja, the decks build, and the bot stays silent when it should. The first warning it sends will be real, seven days before something I used to learn about at 11 PM the night prior. That alone is a new experience for me.