Upload a syllabus PDF. Get a fully structured semester plan — every deadline, every weight, every exam. No manual entry. No chaos. Just clarity.
Eight courses. Eight syllabi. Hundreds of deadlines scattered across PDFs, emails, and LMS pages. Most students give up trying to track it all by week three.
Buried in PDFs, forgotten in inboxes, lost in tabs. The cost isn't laziness — it's the system.
Hand-typing dates from PDFs into Notion, Google Calendar, sticky notes. By week three, the system is already abandoned.
Not because the work is too hard. Because the workload is invisible until the night before it's due.
No setup wizard. No 30-page onboarding. Just upload and go — your PDF never even leaves the browser.
PDF or DOCX, up to 20 MB. Parsing happens in your browser via PDF.js — your file never touches our servers.
GPT-4o reads course title, deadlines, exam dates, weights, late-submission rules. You review the result. Edit anything that looks off.
Dashboard, timeline, calendar, workload heatmap. Sync to Google or Outlook in one click. Reminders set automatically.
Built around the way semesters actually work. Every feature answers one question: does this reduce student stress?
PDF.js + GPT-4o pipeline pulls every deadline, weight, and policy. Review screen before save. Up to 10 courses per semester.
Today's tasks, next 7 days, workload widget (low / medium / high). Loads in under two seconds. Always.
One-click Google + Outlook sync via OAuth. Per-course toggles. Your existing calendar stays the source of truth.
Bar chart and weekly heatmap show which weeks are quiet and which are buried. Busiest week flagged automatically. Deadline clusters surface so you can renegotiate before they crush you.
Focus timer with ambient backgrounds. Logs sessions to your streak. Distraction-free, full-screen, made for the deep-work hours.
Ask anything: "What's due this week?" "Which exam is heaviest?" "Plan my Sunday." Coach answers in plain English and creates tasks.
Email reminders at 2 weeks · 1 week · 3 days · 24h · 2h before due. Per-course toggles. One-click unsubscribe — no account deletion required.
Live GPA forecast as you log scores. Weight-aware. See exactly what you need on the final to hit the grade you want.
Every assignment, exam, and quiz across every course — projected onto a single calendar grid. Hot cells mean a heavy week. Cool cells mean breathing room.
Hey PlanU isn't a chatbot. It knows every deadline, weight, and class on your schedule. Ask in plain English. Get answers grounded in your actual semester.
Every competitor builds for college students. None of them serve high school. And the problem is fundamentally different — high schoolers don't have five syllabi to organize. They've never been taught how to study.
PlanU's AI Study Coach doesn't just track what's due — it teaches students how to prepare for a biology exam versus a history essay versus a math test. Assessment-specific, science-backed study strategies embedded directly into the workflow.
No syllabus? No problem. Snap a photo of a whiteboard, handout, or assignment sheet. PlanU extracts tasks and builds your plan from any format teachers use.
High School ExclusivePlanU auto-splits "History Project" into Research, Outline, Draft, and Review — then schedules each step backward from the due date. Students learn to plan, not just procrastinate.
AI-Powered ScaffoldingParents see a simple Green / Yellow / Red status — not every task. Students keep autonomy. Parents stop nagging. Everyone wins.
The End of Homework WarsA student who learns to study with PlanU in Grade 11 arrives at university already in the ecosystem. No competitor even sees high school students.
Notion is too flexible. Google Calendar doesn't understand syllabi. Generic to-do apps make you do all the work. PlanU does it for you.
| Capability | Notion / Calendar / To-do | PlanU |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | 2 to 4 hours of manual entry, every semester | Under 60 seconds — upload and done |
| Syllabus parsing | Not supported. You read the PDF yourself. | Every deadline, weight, and policy extracted |
| Workload forecasting | None — events are flat, no weight awareness | Weekly heatmap flags crunch weeks early |
| Reminder cadence | One-off alerts you set yourself | 5-tier (2wk · 1wk · 3d · 24h · 2h) automatic |
| Privacy posture | Files often uploaded to third-party servers | PDFs parsed in browser — never leave your device |
| Built for | Knowledge workers, teams, hobbyists | Students, every semester, end to end |
First time in four years I knew what was due before the night before. The heatmap caught a week I would've fully missed.
I uploaded five syllabi in like a minute and a half and PlanU just… had everything. No way I'm going back to my Notion template.
The 24-hour reminder emails saved me twice this semester. I forgot a quiz existed and PlanU literally caught it.
From our survey of University of Windsor students — the frustrations that shaped every design decision in PlanU.
I wish I could upload things and have a priority list of things to complete every day, including reminders for upcoming projects.
I wish someone had taught me how to actually study — not just when to study, but where to start and how to stay on top of everything.
I'd love a single page calendar with day-by-day requirements across all my courses. Something clean that actually reduces stress.
PlanU extracts text entirely in your browser. Only the extracted text — not the PDF — is sent for AI parsing. No storage. No training. No tracking.
PDF extraction runs in your browser via PDF.js. Your file stays on your device.
Zero server-side document storage. Your syllabus content is never persisted anywhere.
No PII collection for core functionality. Designed for institutional trust from day one.
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