Your deadlines are scattered. Some live in Canvas or Moodle, some in Google Calendar, one in an Apple Note you started in week one and never opened again. The reading list is a syllabus PDF lost somewhere in Downloads. Your to-dos are on paper, in your head, and in two group chats. When two exams and a group submission all land on the same Thursday, nothing warns you, because nothing knew about the others.
So you try another app. It is either a rigid course tracker that wants every class, reading and seminar typed in before it gives you anything back, or a streak-based toy that feels great for six days and then just makes you feel behind. Neither one links "revise chapter four tonight" to "pass this module." The goal stays abstract. The list just gets longer.
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Vekto runs on one quiet loop: Plan. Execute. Reflect.
Plan means your semester becomes a few goals, each split into weeks, so "pass Statistics" stops being a vague dread and turns into this week's three things. Execute means every morning you open one honest list: what is study, what is life, and what actually comes first. Reflect means after a week or an exam you take two minutes to note what worked and what ran you over, so next week starts from that note instead of from zero. That is what an app to plan your semester should do: help you carry less, and still know exactly where you stand.
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Here is what a study planner app looks like when it is built around goals and reflection instead of streaks. This is the loop, playing out across one normal study week.
Set a Quarter goal for the term ("Pass all four modules") and a Year goal for the degree, each with a priority and a progress bar. This is the goal planner for students part: the far-off stuff that usually stays vague finally has a shape you can watch fill up. Link today's revision to that goal, and a Tuesday night of past papers stops feeling like nothing and starts moving the bar.
Open Week and you see today plus the next six days at once. In the two weeks before exams, that is the view that keeps you honest: revision blocks, the shift you still have to work, the seminar reading due Monday, the birthday you are not going to skip. Drag a to-do onto Thursday and you see straight away that Thursday was already full.
Today shows your day with three plain tags: 01 Focus, 02 Important, 03 Normal. "Finish the lab report" is 01. "Email the seminar tutor back" is 02. "Pick up coffee" is 03. Capture is just typing: write "hand in essay Friday 5pm" or "call mum tomorrow at 2" and it lands on the right day. Whatever you do not get to rolls forward as "left from yesterday" instead of slipping off the list. Your reading lists and group-project notes stay in Projects, kept separate from the dated day.
Close a week or a goal with a light reflection: free text, a guiding question, or a simple 1 to 5 rating. After a rough exam you rate the week a 2 and write one line about where the time went. When the same crunch comes round next term, that line is sitting there waiting for you. ---
A: Keep them. A calendar is great for fixed events, Notion for long documents. Vekto is for the daily call of what to actually do next, tied to a semester goal. Most people run it beside a calendar, not instead of one, and you can export to Markdown any time, so you are not locked in.
A: That is the honest risk with any planner, so Vekto is built to need less of you. Type one line and natural-language capture files it. Unfinished to-dos roll themselves forward. Nothing needs configuring before it is useful: one goal and today's list is a real start.
A: You start with a 14-day free trial, no card up front. After that it is €4.99 a month or €39.99 a year. There is also a one-time Founder Lifetime at €69.99 for the first 250 people, if you would rather pay once and stop thinking about it.
A: For now, yes: iPhone, iPad and Mac. Android is coming soon, so if your phone runs Android it is not ready for you yet. We would rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. ---
You need your semester in a shape you can see, a calm list for today, and two minutes to reflect before the next week starts. That is the whole of Vekto.