Overview
Taskade gives you one place for the whole semester. Your lecture notes, your reading list, your assignment deadlines, and your group project all live in the same workspace. An AI agent can read any of it and help you study.
This guide is for a student organizing their own coursework. Set it up once at the start of a term, and the rest of the semester is just typing into it.
TL;DR: Build one workspace per semester, one folder per course, and one project per assignment or note set. Add due dates so everything shows on a calendar. Point a custom AI agent at your notes to summarize readings and quiz you. All of it works on the Free plan.
Set Up Your Semester
Taskade nests your work in three levels: workspace, folder, project. Match those three levels to how school actually works and you will never lose a file again.
| Level | Use it for | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Workspace | One per term | "Fall Semester" |
| Folder | One per course | "Organic Chemistry" |
| Project | One per note set, assignment, or exam | "Week 4 Lecture Notes" |
- Create a workspace and name it after the term.
- Add a folder for each course you are taking.
- Create a project inside a course folder every time you start a new set of notes or a new assignment.
Doing this in the first week costs about ten minutes and saves you the mid-term scramble.
Take Notes That Stay Usable
Open a project and start typing. Every line is a task you can nest, check off, tag, or attach a file to. Press Tab to indent a point under the one above it. Press Shift+Tab to pull it back out. That is exactly how lecture notes want to be structured anyway.
- Nest by topic so a long lecture folds down to five headings you can scan before an exam.
- Attach the slides or a photo of the whiteboard to the point they belong to.
- Highlight and bold the parts your professor said would be on the test.
- Tag terms you want to revisit so you can pull them all up later.
For the mechanics of folding, dragging, and reordering, see Outlining 101. When you want to study the same notes as a concept map instead of a list, switch to Mind Map view. All 9 project views work on the same content, so nothing needs rewriting.
Track Assignments and Deadlines
Give every assignment a due date and Taskade will do the reminding for you.
- Click the task for the assignment.
- Open the add-ons menu with the plus icon, or press Ctrl / Cmd + /.
- Pick Due Date and choose the day, or a start and end date for something you will work on over a week.
- Add a timer from the same menu when you want to run a focused study block.
Switch to Calendar view to see every deadline across a course laid out by week. Turn on notifications and you get an alert before something is due instead of the morning after.
Research and Study With AI Agents
A custom AI agent is an AI study partner you set up once. Give it a name, tell it what subject it helps with, and connect it to your notes, your PDFs, and your reading links. From then on it answers from your material.
Four agents worth building in your first week:
| Agent | What to ask it |
|---|---|
| Summarizer | "Condense this 40-page reading into ten bullet points." |
| Tutor | "Explain this concept again, simpler, with an example." |
| Quizmaster | "Ask me fifteen practice questions on this chapter." |
| Draft partner | "Turn my outline into a first draft I can edit." |
Connect your course files through Agent Knowledge so the agent studies from your syllabus and readings rather than the open internet. Agents can also search the web when you need a source you do not have yet.
If your school or department wants to roll Taskade out for a whole class or program, that is a different setup, covered in Taskade for Education.
Run Group Projects Without the Chaos
Share a project with your group and everyone works on the same page in real time. No emailed versions, no "which file is the latest one".
- Assign tasks to specific people so nobody assumes someone else has it.
- Comment on a line to ask a question without rewriting the work.
- Set roles so a teammate can edit while a study-group visitor can only read. See Permissions.
- Chat inside the project instead of a separate group thread that loses the context.
Reuse What Works
Once a course structure works, save it as a template. Next term you start a course folder with your note format, your assignment tracker, and your study-plan project already in place. Build it once, use it every semester.
The Free plan covers unlimited projects, AI chat, and custom agents, which is enough for a full course load. Upgrade only if you want the paid views or more AI.
Related guides
- Start Here: the four-step tour of the workspace
- Create a Project: your first note set in one minute
- Due Dates: deadlines, ranges, and reminders
- Custom AI Agents: build a tutor that knows your syllabus
- Use Templates: save a course setup and reuse it
- Share a Project: work with your group in real time