For students balancing academics, extracurricular activities, and personal responsibilities, Akiflow’s Folders, Projects, Sections, and Tags can help you stay organized and on top of your tasks. Here's how you can use them effectively:
Folders: High-level Categories
Folders help group related projects into broader areas, providing an organized overview of your responsibilities.
Folders are expandable or collapsible giving you a streamlined view of your Akiflow sidebar.
Suggested Folders:
- Academics: Core educational activities
- Extracurriculars: Clubs, teams, and other non-academic commitments
- Personal: Tasks unrelated to school, such as chores or hobbies
Projects: Break Down Key Focus Areas
Use 
Projects to focus on specific areas of your academic and extracurricular life. Projects make tasks actionable and trackable.
Assign tasks to specific projects for clear segmentation. Projects can be color-coded and can have different emojis for visual organization.
Suggested Projects:
- Academics Folder:
- Projects: "Homework," "Courses," "Research Papers"
- Extracurriculars Folder:
- Projects: "Student Council," "Club Activities," "Event Planning"
- Personal Folder:
- Projects: "Chores," "Hobbies," "Fitness"
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Sections: Structure Your Workflows
Break projects into phases, categories, or stages using sections to make workflows more manageable.
Sections can help declutter your task list, making it easier to focus on specific stages or categories within your Project. They are also useful for workflows like Kanban or when breaking down projects into steps.
Suggested Sections:
- Fitness Project:
- Sections:
- Exercise Plans
- Meditation Sessions
- Courses Project:
- Sections:
- Assigned Reading
- Exam Prep
- Research Papers Project:
- Sections:
- Topics to explore
- Sources to review
- Club Activities Project:
- Sections:
- Brainstorm Ideas
- Logistics/Planning
- Marketing
Depending on your preferences, you can also use Tags for these instead of Sections
Tags: Add Context Across Tasks
Tags add flexibility and allow you to categorize tasks across projects for quick filtering and prioritization.
You can add multiple tags to a single task for cross-referencing and clarity (i.e. a tasked tagged both as Follow Up and Research). You can also filter asks by tags to quickly find related items.
Suggested Tags:
- To Read: For articles, books, or papers
- Citations: For tasks related to research papers or projects
- To Review: Tasks needing final checks before submission
Best Practices
- Integrate and automate where possible: Sync Akiflow with platforms like Notion to seamlessly pull in tasks and schedules and keep your workflow centralized in one place
- Keep it simple: Use folders, projects, and sections to create structure but keep tags simple and consistent
- Review regularly: Use daily and weekly Rituals to revisit folders, projects, and tags and ensure that you stay aligned with your priorities and deadlines
When planning your tasks, use Akiflow’s 
Task Deadline or Task priorities features on top of our suggestions above to ensure that you never miss submissions, stay organized and prioritize effectively.