Tollab

A dozen tabs and zero answers

When I was at the Technion, my "schedule" was scattered across like six different places. The course site had one piece. My actual weekly timetable was somewhere else. Lecture recordings lived in their own separate system. And homework deadlines lived in my head, which, let's be honest, is not a reliable place to store anything. Every "wait, do I have a lecture right now?" turned into opening a pile of tabs and playing detective.

So I built the thing I wished existed: Tollab. Courses, weekly schedule, homework, lecture recordings, all in one spot, for me and anyone else at the Technion who was sick of juggling tabs. The name comes from "tullab," which is just Arabic for students. The subtitle says "For Technionez," which tells you how seriously I was taking myself.

What it actually does

You set up a semester, drop your courses in, and your week lays itself out as a color-coded grid. Homework gets tracked with due dates so the deadlines stop living rent-free in your head. You can pin your lecture recordings to each course, so the one you need to rewatch the night before an exam is right there instead of lost in some folder.

Sign in with Google and it all syncs to the cloud, so whatever you set up on your laptop is already on your phone. Switch devices, same dashboard, no fuss.

Little touches I'm fond of

The empty states have a bit of attitude. Start a semester with no courses and it tells you to "add one and let the chaos begin." It wasn't necessary at all, but since I was building this for other students, it felt like the right spot to let some personality through. If you're going to stare at your schedule in dread anyway, it might as well say something funny back.