A Time-Blocking Study Planner For Crushing College

The most powerful tool to manage your study life!

stop wasting time

Ditch the paper planners, spreadsheets, and to-do lists!

Shovel combines all your favorite tools into one powerful app with unmatched functionalities and infinite flexibility.

1. Build Your Schedule & Uncover Study Time

Shovel calculates your available study time for every day of the semester.

2. Plan Your Tasks Into Your Calendar

Your tasks are more likely to get done when you “time-block” them into your study times.

3. Know You Can Meet Every Deadline

Shovel compares your study time with your workload to make sure you can meet every deadline.

Stop Feeling Overwhelmed

Become a stress-free student

Say goodbye to anxiety and stress

Most students don’t have a good system to stay organized. They overestimate the study time they HAVE and underestimate the time they NEED to get things done. They start late and get behind. This causes stress and anxiety. Shovel helps you fix it!

Have time for everything

Say hello to good grades and friends

Work hard. Play hard. That’s our motto. We don’t want you to sacrifice anything when it comes to college. You can get good grades and still have an amazing college experience… if you manage your time and tasks well.

Celebrate Good Grades with Friends

Your Study Life In One Place

More than a Calendar

Create your ideal schedule

Use our drag-and-drop builder to quickly build your schedule and uncover your available study time. When things change, adjust things on-the-go in our mobile app. Always know when you can study and for how long.

Drag and drop events into your schedule
Shovel Task List

More than a to-do list

Organize your tasks for getting them done

Have every task from every class in one place and always know how long each task will take – even readings! With our powerful, student-optimized task list, you’ll meet every deadline.

Time-Blocking Specialist

Time-Block tasks into available study times

Drag and drop your tasks into your calendar to plan when you’ll get them done. Don’t let anything distract you. Always know WHAT you’ll be working on, WHEN, and for HOW LONG.

Time-Blocking aka Timeboxing in Shovel Study Planner

See Into The Future… Seriously!

The Cushion Graph

PREDICTIVE TIME-CALCULATOR

Know if you can meet every deadline

Shovel knows if you can get everything done on time, or if you need to change your schedule, way before you run into trouble! It literarily allows you to see into the future.

Become a stress-free student with Shovel

powerful analytics

See what you’ve done and what’s coming up

Shovel shows you the past and the future. You’ll be encouraged by what you’ve accomplished and always see what’s to come.

Powerful Analytics in Shovel

THE POWER OF TIME-BLOCKING

Gates and Musk use Time Blocking
In a recent study, timeboxing was named the most useful productivity “hack” and it is how Bill Gates and Elon Musk plan their busy days.
Simply put, it means assigning individual tasks into a calendar for specific durations of time.
And Shovel makes time-blocking EASY!

Benefits of Time-Blocking

  • Accountability: Same as with having a meeting in your schedule, when a task is on your calendar, you are making an obligation to yourself that you’ll work on it at that time.
  • Knowing what’s possible: Students who don’t plan their day often overestimate how much they can get done. Timeboxing will help you match tasks with time in your calendar.
  • Prioritizing: By time-blocking when they’ll work on each task, you’ll naturally need to prioritize what you’ll do first.

Sync your school system and calendars

Shovel connects to your LMS and Calendar

Import your tasks from Canvas, Brightspace, and Moodle into Shovel where they are much more useful. When things change, Shovel updates automatically.

Among others, Shovel is helping students who have ADHD and bipolar disorder

See our reviews:

I found the best planner ever! I cannot remember how I came across this but I am so glad I did! The layout is awesome and all my tasks are getting done because of it! It's fantastic for college...

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Every "how to do well in college" book tells you steps to setup everything Shovel does but on paper/calendar but that does not come close to giving you the information you gain from Shovel. If you...

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Amazing idea and amazingly helpful.

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Invest In Your Future

High GPA Leads to High Paying Jobs

Your parents want you to succeed. Ask them to invest in your future.

Build Your Ideal Schedule

Uncover Your Available Study Time

Have Every Task From Every Class In One Place

Estimate Non-Reading Tasks

Know How Long Each Reading Will Take

Know If You Can Get It All Done On Time — In Real Time (Shovel Tells You)

Plan When You’ll Work On each Task And For How Long

Track Your Progress

Become The Most Organized Version Of Yourself

Bring Home Results You And Your Parents Can Be Proud Of

If you need to see Shovel in action first, book your live demo.

$33/month

Paid Monthly

Better Grades

Less Stress

More Job Offers

For serious students only!

Why No Free Trial?

Shovel is not an app where it is useful to just click around. The true power and value of Shovel can only be appreciated when you take the time to use it as intended.

It combines time and task management with time-blocking to create a powerful and unique study system that is unlike anything you’ve used before.

You will always know what you have to do next, how long it will take, and if you can get it done. You’ll know that continuously, in real-time.

Shovel isn’t difficult. It can be used by anyone, but it requires commitment to changing your habits.

The result will be better grades, less stress, and more time to enjoy your college experience.

Need more info? Schedule a live demo by clicking the button below.

Our Why

Shovel Founder Was Overwhelmed

we know the struggle

Our founder was a student-athlete who got overwhelmed

Petr got injured and the more time he spent trying to get healthy, the less time he had for school. Soon enough he had bad grades and declining mental health.

BUILT FOR STUDENTS

So he built the tool he wished he’d had as a student

There was no tool to help Petr manage his tasks, classes, and practices at the same time, so he decided to help the next generation of students by building it for them.

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Student holding a Shovel digging himself out of a pile of homework

A TOOL THAT CALLS TO ACTION

Why the name Shovel?

Shovel is a tool for getting things done. Simple and effective.

Shovel is an action. It’s about doing hard work, some of which may not be pleasant.

Shovel is a beginning. It’s groundbreaking. Starting something new and finishing something big, one scoop at a time.

Dig out of that pile of homework!