Use case
Revision sessions spread out, not crammed into the last week
The exam is six weeks away, which feels like plenty of time right up until it's six days away. A revision plan only works if the sessions actually happen on the days you set, not just the days you meant to.
A revision plan is only as good as whether the sessions happen
Spacing revision out over weeks instead of cramming the last few days works better, which is not new information. What's harder is getting the individual sessions to actually happen on the days you planned, three weeks out, when the exam still feels far away and something else always seems more urgent right now.
A written revision timetable is a plan. It is not a delivery mechanism. The session on a Tuesday in week two needs something to actually put it in front of you at the time you scheduled it, or it quietly slides to Wednesday, then to next week, then it's the exam and half the topics never got a second pass.
This page is about the mechanical part: turning a revision schedule into reminders that fire on the right days, escalate if you're the sort of person who dismisses the first prompt, and count down to the exam itself.
Where a revision plan actually breaks
Rarely on week one. Usually somewhere in the middle stretch.
The far-off session got bumped
A session three weeks out doesn't compete against anything urgent this week, so it loses, repeatedly, until it's suddenly the week before the exam.
One topic never got revisited
The plan covered it once, early on, and nothing brought it back for a second pass, so it's still at the state you left it a month ago.
The exam date felt abstract until it wasn't
Without a countdown, six weeks and six days feel psychologically similar right up until the six days actually arrives.
Turning a revision timetable into reminders
This is about twenty minutes of setup once you have a subject list.
Set one reminder per topic, not one per week
A reminder named after the actual topic is easier to act on than 'revision' repeated seven times across the calendar.
Space the repeats yourself
Set each topic to repeat on the specific days you want a second and third pass at it — there is no built-in spaced-repetition algorithm doing this for you, so the spacing is a plan you set, not one Timelee generates.
Add the exam date as its own countdown reminder
Stack pre-alarms at a week out and a day out, so the date stays present rather than becoming background noise.
Turn on Pinch Me for the final week
Set the last few days to nag hourly, which repeats six times and stops — a working window rather than an alarm running all night.
What's actually doing the work
Three features, used together.
Recurring reminders
Set a topic to come back on specific days, not just once, so it gets more than a single pass.
Pre-alarms
Stack a week-out and a day-out warning ahead of the exam itself, so the date stays real.
Priorities
Mark the weaker topics Urgent and switch to the priority view so they surface above the ones you already know cold.
Working through a session without the list staring back
Once a revision reminder fires, Focus mode is a reasonable way to actually get through the session: it shows one item at a time from your filtered list, and you mark it done or skip it with a keypress rather than scrolling a long list while deciding what to do next.
It won't tell you what to study or how long to spend on each thing — Timelee has no view into the content of your notes. What it does is remove the friction between finishing one thing and starting the next, which during a long revision session is most of the actual resistance.
- One topic at a time, keyboard-driven
- Enter to mark done, S to skip, Esc to stop
- Counts what you cleared when you finish a session
What to have set up two weeks before the exam
- One reminder per topic, tagged to the subject
- A repeat pattern for anything that needs more than one pass
- A countdown reminder for the exam date itself
- Pre-alarms at a week out and a day out
- Priorities set so the weaker topics surface first
- Pinch Me turned on for the final week only
There is no spaced-repetition algorithm here
Timelee does not calculate optimal review intervals or generate a revision schedule for you. It reminds you on the days and times you set. If you're using a formal spaced-repetition method, you do the scheduling; Timelee makes sure the sessions actually reach you.
Questions about revision reminders
Does Timelee generate a revision schedule for me?
No. You set the topics, the days and the repeats. Timelee's job is making sure each session actually fires, not planning the content or the interval.
Can I count down to an exam date?
Set the exam as its own reminder with the real date, and stack pre-alarms ahead of it — a week out and a day out are a reasonable pair.
Can I prioritise weaker topics over ones I already know?
Yes. Set priority on each topic reminder and switch the dashboard to the priority view to see the weaker ones grouped above the rest.
Is there a student discount or plan?
No separate plan. The core, including reminders, repeats, pre-alarms, priorities and Pinch Me, is free.
Turn this term's topic list into reminders before the last week
Sign in with Google and set one reminder per topic, spaced out over the weeks you actually have.