{"id":154,"date":"2026-06-03T08:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quixoticraindrop.com\/software\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=154"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:50:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T15:50:40","slug":"getting-started","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/www.quixoticraindrop.com\/software\/docs\/studifoca\/getting-started\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This page takes you from a fresh install to a working setup\u2014one term, one course, something on your Agenda\u2014in a few minutes. You don&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">First launch &amp; notifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you first open StudiFoca, you&#8217;ll see its five tabs across the bottom:&nbsp;<strong>Terms<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Agenda<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Courses<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Assignments<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>Assessments<\/strong>. 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&#8217;s due and when. Up top, the&nbsp;<strong>+<\/strong>&nbsp;adds items, the&nbsp;<strong>gear<\/strong> opens Settings, and the&nbsp;<strong>?<\/strong>&nbsp;opens help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before you add anything, it&#8217;s worth setting your reminders. Open&nbsp;<strong>Settings (gear icon) \u2192 Notifications<\/strong>, allow the iOS permission so reminders can reach you, and choose a&nbsp;<strong>Reminder level<\/strong>. The levels stack, from silent to insistent, so you can match how much nudging actually works for you:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>None<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 no reminders; items appear only in your lists and, if you&#8217;ve synced it, your calendar.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Low<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 a morning digest of what&#8217;s due today, plus a Sunday summary of the week ahead.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Medium<\/strong> \u2014 everything in Low, plus an evening digest of tomorrow&#8217;s items and a note celebrating anything you finished today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>High<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 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.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extreme<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 everything in High, plus a midday nudge for items due within four days and a second, fixed 15-minute warning before each assessment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Medium is a good place to start (and the default setting). You can change the level anytime, and fine-tune reminders per item later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Creating your first term<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Term is the outer container\u2014a semester, quarter, session, etc.\u2014and everything else lives inside one, so it&#8217;s the first thing to make.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On the&nbsp;<strong>Terms<\/strong>&nbsp;tab, tap&nbsp;<strong>+<\/strong>&nbsp;in the top corner to open&nbsp;<strong>Add Academic Term<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Give it a&nbsp;<strong>title<\/strong>, like &#8220;Fall 2026.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Choose the&nbsp;<strong>session length<\/strong>&nbsp;(Semester, and so on), and add optional details if you want them.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set the&nbsp;<strong>term start and end dates<\/strong>. If your term has a finals period, switch on&nbsp;<strong>Has finals period<\/strong>&nbsp;and set those dates too \u2014 the school year fills itself in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tap&nbsp;<strong>Save<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all you need to get going. The full rundown of every field lives in [Using StudiFoca \u2192 Terms].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Choosing your first screen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">StudiFoca lets you decide which tab greets you each time you open the app. In\u00a0<strong>Settings (gear icon) \u2192 Starting Tab<\/strong>, pick whatever fits how you work\u2014the\u00a0<strong>Agenda<\/strong>\u00a0once your term has courses and due dates flowing into it, or\u00a0<strong>Terms<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Courses<\/strong>\u00a0while you&#8217;re still setting things up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a term and a course are in place, the Agenda is the screen most worth coming back to each day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where to next<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Related:<\/strong>&nbsp;[Using StudiFoca] \u00b7 [Concepts] \u00b7&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quixoticraindrop.com\/software\/studifoca-sources\/\">Sources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":152,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_is_vendor_doc":"0","footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-154","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Getting Started - Quixotic Raindrop Software, LLC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quixoticraindrop.com\/software\/docs\/studifoca\/getting-started\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Getting Started - Quixotic Raindrop Software, LLC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This page takes you from a fresh install to a working setup\u2014one term, one course, something on your Agenda\u2014in a few minutes. 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