For students

From the brief to handed in, one step at a time

Paste what you were given and get a dated plan for your essay or report: what to do first, what comes after, and every source in one place.

Kit: Essay or report

An essay's draft plan, read from its brief: each part dated back from the deadline.

The problem

Starting is the hard part

A two-week report looks simple until you sit down. The instructions are on one page, the sources in ten tabs, and the deadline feels far away until it isn't. Nobody tells you what to do first.

How Belaywork handles it

  • Paste the brief

    Copy the instructions from your course page, or drop in the PDF or Word file. Numbered items or “Step 1” headings become parts, the items under them tasks, and rules like “at least three sources” steps. Dates become due dates and checkpoints. It's read in your browser by plain rules, not AI.

  • A plan counted back from the deadline

    The Essay or report kit adds what a brief leaves out: pin down the question, find the sources, outline, draft, revise and hand in, one task after another, each with a date.

  • One next step

    Today shows the one thing to do next, and why: due on Friday, or overdue since Monday. Tick the steps as you go, and the plan keeps up.

  • Sources that become a reference list

    Keep each source with its citation beside the part that uses it, then export the list in APA 7 or Harvard, or as BibTeX or RIS for your reference manager.

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