Study Session Planner
Give it a deadline and how much you have to cover, and it spreads the work into a spaced plan.
Why spread the work out
Cramming feels productive because you cover a lot in one sitting, but most of it leaks away within days. Spacing the same study time across several sessions holds up far better. When Cepeda and colleagues synthesised 317 experiments, distributed practice reliably beat massed practice, and the gains grew with the gap between sessions. In other words, the same hours spread out are worth more than the same hours piled up.
That is why this plan front-loads new material into an early learn phase and reserves the later days for lighter review. Reviewing after a little forgetting has set in is where spacing pays off, so the plan keeps some hours back rather than spending them all up front. Dunlosky and colleagues rated spacing and self-testing the two highest-utility learning techniques out of the ten they reviewed, so pairing spaced sessions with a quick quiz beats passively rereading.
If you want the reasoning behind the schedule, read the forgetting curve guide for how memory decays and how reviews fight it, or microlearning versus traditional learning for why short, spaced sessions tend to stick.