Upload your syllabus and PlanU builds your entire semester — every deadline, exam, and assignment — organized in under 60 seconds.
Students are expected to turn syllabi, portals, PDFs, and announcements into one clear plan. PlanU does that work for them.
No account required. No setup. No configuration. Just upload and go.
Built from real surveys with 31+ students who told us exactly what they need and what they hate about existing tools.
This is the modern student command center: deadlines, weighted tasks, and pressure weeks all surfaced before the panic starts.
Students do not need another productivity toy. They need a planner that starts from the syllabus and actually removes stress.
| Tool | The Problem | PlanU's Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Google Calendar | Great for events, but empty at semester start and still manual. | Auto-populates deadlines directly from syllabus text. |
| Notion Templates | Powerful but setup-heavy; students quit before week two. | Zero-setup timeline live in under 60 seconds. |
| Generic AI Chat | Can miss context, weighting, and relative date logic. | Purpose-built academic parser for structured output. |
| Paper Planners | No sync, no reminders, no workload forecasting. | Smart nudges, calendar sync, and heatmap by week. |
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.
I have a biology midterm on Friday. Chapters 4–7. I don't know where to start.
Here's your plan for this week. Biology midterms are recall-heavy — rereading won't work. Instead:
Today: Take a blank sheet and write everything you remember from Ch. 4–5. Check what you missed. That's active recall.
Wednesday: Do the same for Ch. 6–7. Then review your gaps from Monday.
Thursday: Take the practice quiz on all 4 chapters. Focus only on what you got wrong.
From our survey of University of Windsor students — the frustrations that shaped every design decision in PlanU.
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.
Interested in PlanU? Have questions, feedback, or want to collaborate? Reach out — we'd love to hear from you.
Email Ushello@planu.ca