#app tips

First of all, is important to say that I’m 4th year Geography student and I use my cellphone (iPhone SE 2022) and a tablet (Samsung tab S7). Some apps are available just for one system, some are available for both. Biased that, some apps make sense for a GEOGRAPHY student, but may not be that helpful for other courses.

Notion

This one is a classic by now, right? I think I don’t have a lot to say about it, seems a little like a bullet journal but virtually, were you can creat a lot of pages and centrals. I use as a bullet journal + agenda + diary + note taking app!

Todomate

So, I discovered this app on Twitter and i’m IN LOVE with this! It’s like a social network, but where you can do to-do lists! As I said, it’s a social network, so you can add your friends and see their own to-do lists! You can also interact with them, liking their daily feelings and their tasks. It’s really fun and easy to use! You can also create private lists, routines etc. Love it! (That’s my count in the print, btw. You can add me there if you want to: HexGurlAcademia! My todo lists are all in portuguese? Yes, but…)

Windy

The must have to geoscience students! It’s an app that shows you a lot of geodata! Really good to check when there’s a storm coming or any climate event.

Noteshelf

Usually people use OneNote to do class notes, BUT it’s not available to android 🫠 but I founded this one! You can create groups, notebooks, transfer pdfs… I love to use this to read papers and texts for classes.

Samsung Notes

Another alternative to android users who wants to have a virtual notebook. You can also use the app in your PC!

Discord

So, did you know that there are a LOT of study communities on Discord? There are language learning communities, college servers (my university, for example, have one!), study buddies servers… I use to have study buddies and use pomodoro bots! There’s also a server I LOVE that has lo-fi rooms.

Classify

This one is a routine app! You can put not just your semester classes, but all your extracurricular activities! You can count study hours, add when your exams will be, homeworks… I really liked this one!

Habitica

Another routine app, but this one makes your tasks become a game! As more tasks you finish, you earn coins which you can exchange for things to up your character. You also earn xp to level up your character! I highly recommend it specially to teen/kid ADHD students! Trust me, it helps a lot transforming your life into a little game 😉

Yeolpumta (or YPT)

This one is a study chronometer! You can create your on profile, add friends, create and participate of study communities etc. I like this app, but may be discomfortable to people with anxiety, cuz you can see how many hours the others have been studying. If you study a lot of hours, your avatar changes and you go up in the groups and general rank. I stop using this so much cuz I was really anxious about it :/

Agenda Escolar

This one is a Brazilian app! Works very similar to Classify, but it’s a little simpler and 100% in brazilian portuguese.

Google stuff (Drive, Classroom etc)

Hey there, nonnie! Good question!

The short answer is... nothing! That’s what makes war so scary! 

The long answer is... it’s a bit more complicated than that. Let’s take a look at the two current spies for Voldemort in-game: Peter and Severus (though the latter is spying just as much for the Order). Neither character has given a comprehensive list of names, nor have they been asked to by Voldemort - even in the books, Snape gives information about when the Order is moving Harry... but not who is moving Harry. This might be because he’s unable - I don’t think it would be wrong to say that the Order has some spell in place (perhaps members sign a list that makes them magically unable to speak names about the Order to outside members; Hermione, a 16-year-old managed a similar spell). Or it might just be that Voldemort doesn’t really care about their names... he’ll just kill anyone who gets in his way.

Also consider Ainsley, who recently defected. She’s been in the Order a lot longer than either Severus or Peter, and knows the majority of the group - what’s stopping her from naming all their names? We also know that her identity was discovered by the Death Eaters prior to her sister’s engagement...who gave her away? It’s possible that the Death Eaters know a lot more members of the Order than they’ve let-on so far...

For this roleplay, I also think it’s important to remember that, once someone joins up, they don’t just immediately meet everyone. In fact, some people who have been working with the Order - namely Lu and Andromeda - still aren’t yet known to anyone outside their contact(s) and the Inner Circle. So, while Annalise could certainly tell Voldemort about the few members she knows about, it’ll also compromise her position pretty quickly. If only those members suddenly end up ambushed and/or dead... they’re going to figure out who tattled, and cast Annalise out with a memory charm (or worse!). It might be worth it to her - it might not be. But I’m guessing Voldemort would rather have her work the long game and take down all the Order than just a few members that “would just be replaced.” (Voldemort’s viewing - people can be replaced in his mind. Everyone but him, anyway!) Remember, Voldemort is only afraid of Dumbledore - everyone else is “just a flunky” to him. So while he’s happy to have as much collateral death as possible, he’s not focused on killing the people... he’s focused on killing the organization.

Consider the Death Eater list. The Order knows for sure about a few members of the Death Eaters... but they can’t just go out and kill them and/or have them detained. It’s the same for the Death Eaters. The Wizarding World as a whole hasn’t yet called this a war. The Daily Prophet isn’t reporting on the deaths as though it’s a combat action. Nobody else wants to choose sides. If the Death Eaters went and killed a few Order members all at the same time, it’s likely the Aurors would investigate and catch them. Some of the Death Eaters have higher-up positions in the Ministry, which is much more useful than killing just five people in the Order. And even Aurors like Alice, Frank, Kingsley, and Moody (and whatever Aurors are working for the Death Eaters) can’t just go execute people on the street without proof - or even have them arrested just on their say-so, even if they know someone’s a Death Eater/Order member. They need enough evidence that the charges will stick if they want to actually get them to Azkaban.

And the final note... the Death Eaters are always recruiting. And so is the Order of the Phoenix. If the entire Inner Circle is wiped out, there are still others that would step up and do the work. And, when Hogwarts ends in the spring, there’s likely some new, bright-eyed members that will join up. Even someone like Ted, who is older, just recently joined. Both sides are constantly trying to make their ranks stronger, so it would be pretty impossible for Annalise to have all 40+ members killed off at once -- especially if she wouldn’t ever know about some of them. If all she wanted was quick revenge, she would just take a silver mask and join the next battle. Putting in the effort to insinuate herself into the Order sounds like someone aiming for a bigger endgame.

That being said... if giving names is something that a player applying for Annalise would want to do, we think it would be an interesting idea! Have her choose a few, careful to keep herself from being discovered as the source? Have some people attacked, or their homes targeted? That could be fun! There would need to be a discussion about who she could start with, but we’re all about characters messing things up for the Order here! (*cough*James’death*cough*). There are just some obstacles to consider - and some reasons why she might choose to keep herself undercover a bit longer. 

1. Notion

Notion is app to help to organise your life. It’s also a good way to take class notes, make lists etc. It has an app to iOS and Android and also a desktop version, so you can take some notes in your cellphone during your class and after you arrive at home (or dormitory), you can access this notes in the desktop to review it. To ADHD guys like me: this is 100% life saving, trust me!

Ah, another tip: if you make your account with an institutional email (your college email, for example), you get de personal pro-plan for free!

2. Duolingo

Duolingo is an app to learn other languages. To the ones who wish to be polyglots one day, this app is a good idea! A tip that I can give you is trying to learn new languages using one that you already know well, this way you will learn a new language, reforce what you already know of another one and it makes harder for your brain create some dependence of translations! For example, my mother thong is Portuguese, but I have a good English. I’m learning Latin on Duolingo using English as first language.

3. Evernote

Evernote is also a note app, but with a little lass possibilities than Notion. Is a good ask if you ONLY want to take notes. It has an app for iOS and Android and also a desktop version, but I can’t remember if you need to pay to use both.

4. Goodreads

Goodreads is a social network of readers! You can control what books you are reading, what ones do you want etc. It has iOS and Android app and a desktop version. To BR friends, I prefer the Cabeceira app, this one also calculates how many pages you read per hour and how many hours you’ll need to finish your book, but it’s only available in portuguese and only in app for iOS and Android.

5. Telegram

Okay, okay, I know that you’re looking to this one totally “wtf how Telegram will help me?!”. Well, my friend, I will tell you. Telegram is a message app, like WhatsApp, but a little different. A thing that this app has and WhatsApp doesn’t it’s are the bots. You can find bots to EVERYTHING, including a bot to find academic books and papers called Nexus Search. To use it, all you need is search for @/libgen_scihub_bot! Telegram is free for iOS, Android and desktop.

6. Kindle

NON-BIO CHARACTER RESTRICTION: HALF-BREEDS

The admins are putting a temporary cap on half-breed characters due to the number of half-breeds currently active in the game. While we love all of the ones we have (we really do!), we want to keep these sorts of characters to a rarity given that that’s how they’re depicted in the books and as such, are issuing a moratorium... at least for now!

We feel like one in ten is a pretty good game ratio for half-breeds to full-wix, given that the Order probably has a higher percentage of all varieties of “outcasts” and “oddballs” than the magical world does overall. Currently we have three half-breeds out of twenty-three active characters and thirty-two characters overall, so that’s just about perfect. When our ratio skews back we’ll be happy to lift the cap and let in some more!

Secondary characters, particularly those related to existing half-breed characters, are exempt from this temporary cap!

We’re sorry for not getting back to you sooner; both admins were mostly offline yesterday. Mary and Hestia are two very different characters, so there’s probably not going to be a lot of overlap in their FC choices, but let’s see…

We’ve taken a look at the resources for Victoria Pedretti and from what we’re seeing, the attitude evinced doesn’t quite fit for what we’d expect of either of them, although maybe for a Mary depending on the portrayal you had in mind? (You may also be looking at different resources from what I found.) Again, it really all comes down to what you’re looking for so while Pedretti doesn’t seem to us to be a great fit for either of them, we wouldn’t put our foot down against her if you had a case to make! Once again, we’re open to any FC suggestions for any character… just please include the “why”: behind your decision to ask for a change. If a player can come up with an idea on how that FC fits better, we’re totally open to changes!

Here are some suggestions off the top of our heads:

FOR MARY.

Ella Purnell

Margaret Qualley

Diamond White

Mina El Hammani

Brianna Hildebrand

Nicole Muñoz

Spencer Locke

Hayley Kiyoko

Kristen Stewart

Willa Holland

Kat Dennings 

FOR HESTIA.

Alisha Boe

Lulu Antariksa 

Nicole Maines

Katie Douglas

Amandla Stenberg

Ariela Barer 

Hailee Steinfeld 

Corinne Foxx

India Eisley

Sarah Hyland

Katie Findlay

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