The Tired Donkey The Tired Donkey blogs about cocktails, ways to get the most out of your Mac at home, work, college.. He used to write about the unending abuse suffered by the 51% of Americans who actually pay the federal income tax. But this became too depressing, and, frankly, no one wanted to read it.

Nevertheless, if you came here looking for the Tired Donkey's brilliant analysis of our dim-witted tax system, you can still find his earlier posts. Just check the archives or the. Note: The Tired Donkey is not advertiser supported, and he gets no benefit from any product mentioned on his site. There are lots of blog posts describing good Mac applications for students; the Tired Donkey has done you the service of linking to several of the better ones below. Most of these lists throw in a couple of productivity apps, a couple of entertainment apps and few other random apps the author happens to like. Nothing wrong with that kind of list-making (which is why the Tired Donkey linked to some of the posts), but the Tired Donkey, who has a large number of children in college and high school, would like to focus his list a little more tightly on fixing the stupid crap students do that compromises their ability to succeed. The Tired Donkey has divided his list into apps that do the core things you need to do to succeed in college: organize yourself, take good notes, study and keep your computer healthy.

We recently put together our list of the best Mac apps, but college students need different tools. For students it becomes imperative to be excellent time managers to keep a balance between studies and personal life. For this I recommend an app called Weekplan. WEEKPLAN: This one is for time management and productivity enhancement. WEEK PLAN he.

Many of these apps cost money (but all that do have a free trial period). Get over it; go mow a few lawns or work a little overtime or beg your parents for some more money. Better yet, just make them read this post. The Tired Donkey must point out that you (and your parents) are going to be spending a fortune on your education, and, given this, he respectfully suggests that you would be an idiot not to spend a few hundred dollars more to make sure you have the software you need to succeed.

Schoolhouse (available; free to try, then $14.95). This beautiful little application was written by a college student for college students, and it just won the for Best Student-Created Mac OS X App. Now, the Tired Donkey recognizes that awards don’t necessarily mean much; after all, “ ” from won the Best Song Oscar in 1964. But Schoolhouse is no Chim Chim Cher-ee. It’s an app that will keep track of all your tasks for every class, any other tasks you have, your grades, your calendar and more, all via an intuitive, Finder-like interface. If you want to read more, check out the comprehensive review or the short one.

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Slife (available; free). One of the problems many college students face is figuring out how to stop wasting so much damn time every day. This app watches everything you are doing on your Mac, from using applications to browsing the web to email and then presents you with a timeline of all your activity.