This page takes you from a fresh install to a working setup—one term, one course, something on your Agenda—in a few minutes. You don’t have to get it perfect. StudiFoca is built to be filled in as you go, so the only goal right now is to get moving.
First launch & notifications
When you first open StudiFoca, you’ll see its five tabs across the bottom: Terms, Agenda, Courses, Assignments, and Assessments. They nest the way school does: a Term holds your Courses, each Course holds its Assignments and Assessments, and the Agenda draws from all of them to show what’s due and when. Up top, the + adds items, the gear opens Settings, and the ? opens help.
Before you add anything, it’s worth setting your reminders. Open Settings (gear icon) → Notifications, allow the iOS permission so reminders can reach you, and choose a Reminder level. The levels stack, from silent to insistent, so you can match how much nudging actually works for you:
- None — no reminders; items appear only in your lists and, if you’ve synced it, your calendar.
- Low — a morning digest of what’s due today, plus a Sunday summary of the week ahead.
- Medium — everything in Low, plus an evening digest of tomorrow’s items and a note celebrating anything you finished today.
- High — everything in Medium, plus a timed warning before each assessment, a 5 PM alert for anything still due today, and a midday nudge for items due within two days. You can also switch on class-meeting warnings here.
- Extreme — everything in High, plus a midday nudge for items due within four days and a second, fixed 15-minute warning before each assessment.
Medium is a good place to start (and the default setting). You can change the level anytime, and fine-tune reminders per item later.
Creating your first term
A Term is the outer container—a semester, quarter, session, etc.—and everything else lives inside one, so it’s the first thing to make.
- On the Terms tab, tap + in the top corner to open Add Academic Term.
- Give it a title, like “Fall 2026.”
- Choose the session length (Semester, and so on), and add optional details if you want them.
- Set the term start and end dates. If your term has a finals period, switch on Has finals period and set those dates too — the school year fills itself in.
- Tap Save.
That’s all you need to get going. The full rundown of every field lives in [Using StudiFoca → Terms].
Choosing your first screen
StudiFoca lets you decide which tab greets you each time you open the app. In Settings (gear icon) → Starting Tab, pick whatever fits how you work—the Agenda once your term has courses and due dates flowing into it, or Terms or Courses while you’re still setting things up.
Once a term and a course are in place, the Agenda is the screen most worth coming back to each day.
Where to next
Add a Course, then your first Assignment or Assessment, and watch them land on the Agenda. [Using StudiFoca] walks through each area in depth, and [Concepts] explains the thinking behind the Agenda, the workload heatmap, and suggested steps.
Related: [Using StudiFoca] · [Concepts] · Sources