This morning I received an email from a reader seeking suggestions for to-do list management tools her students can use to keep track of assignments and other things that they have to do during the week. Here are my suggestions for task-management tools for students.

OneNote
If your school uses Microsoft products, I’d take a look at using OneNote for making to-do lists and keeping track of tasks. OneNote has task list templates that you can use on your desktop or use on your mobile phone. Like anything else in a OneNote notebook, you can share those task lists.

Google Keep
If your school uses G Suite for Education, Google Keep is good option for making and sharing to-do lists. Like OneNote, task lists created in Google Keep can be shared with others. You can have your Google Keep notes trigger reminders on your mobile phone and or desktop computer.

Dayboard for Chrome
Dayboard is a free Google Chrome extension that opens your daily to-do list every time you open a new tab in Chrome. When you open a new tab for the first time Dayboard will appear and ask you to enter your to-do list for the day. After creating your to-do list for the rest of the day whenever you open a new tab you will see your list. You can place a checkmark next to items as you complete them. Dayboard does not require you to create an account, it works offline, and when I installed it it only asked for permission to view activity on the Dayboard website.

Any.DO
Any.DO is designed for creating to-do lists and sharing them with your friends and colleagues. On Any.DO you can type out a list of tasks or enter tasks by speaking into your phone. Once you’ve entered your task you can assign it to a day and time for completion. After assigning a completion deadline you can share that task with anyone in your contacts list even that person doesn’t have the Any.DO app installed on his or her phone. Any.DO also gives you the option to attach notes to your tasks, set reminders for your tasks, and put notes into folders that you’ve created. For example, if I have notes of a personal nature like my grocery shopping list I can put that list into my “personal” folder instead of my “work” folder.

Notion
For something a bit more robust and complex than the tools listed above, take a look at Notion. Notion is an interesting service that combines elements of project management with elements of a wiki service. At its core Notion is designed for teams to work on projects together. You can create sections for each of your projects. Within each section you can create a list of tasks. Notion also lets you add sections that include links, videos, images, and documents that you have written outside of the service. Of course, you can write directly on a page in your Notion account too.