Linux & learning software. your tips/tricks/experiences w/ studying.

Hey everyone,
I'm a college/university student and find myself using my laptop a lot for studying lately. I use it mainly as a substitute for pen and paper so I'm wondering how I could make even better use of the PC/laptop while learning.
Enter thread. I'm really curious as to how you use/used linux while learning/studying.
Did you
* find learning software that generally helped you a lot with your learning experience?
* develop a particular organizational system for your documents?
Or maybe you found a very satisfying way to document lectures with LaTeX/OpenOffice and/or keep backups of all your documents?
One thing I found very useful over the last weeks is Dropbox. I always have 3 automatically synchronized copies of my documents (one on the homeserver/PC, one on my laptop and one on the Dropbox servers).
Personally, I'm studying law and when I was planning on using MS Windows I found that there exists a lot of probably very useful software. Among them a commercial application that would create a virtual filing system for documents that you could even automate to a certain extent (it could file with dates, field of law, name of lecture/professor et al). Another application would let you create virtual file/index cards, keep track of whether of not you learned them, when you learned them, if you got the answer right and it would also tell you when best to learn older cards again.
I never got to really test those apps because I didn't have a laptop back then.
Later I forgot about them and these days I just want to use (arch) linux as I'm so comfortable with it.
That's it from me for now. I'll try to find out if there are linux equivalents of the depicted software. If you already know some don't hesitate to tell me
TL;DR: What's your experience with using a laptop/PC to help with studying or working? Did you find/write any software you'd think others might find useful for learning?
Regards,
demian

I love learning languages and I have the following workflow:
I use an application called Anki. It is a spaced repetition software (SRS) that helps you remembering things. It has a nice community and the software itself is very effective. I think every student who has to remember for a long time what he learned (language learners, law or medical students for example) would find it extremely useful.
When I'm travelling by public transport I study my new material, make notes about it on my Android phone etc. I can keep my phone in sync with my desktop computer easily with Dropbox. I put the new material into Anki when I get home. I record the grammar points I studied in a LibreOffice spreadsheet and I also have a list of the grammar points I want to learn next. I always do my Anki repetition before putting in new grammar or vocab.
With this workflow for example I have learned more than 3000 Japanese characters in a little less than 5 months and I have no problem remembering them. I was also able to learn and remember thousands of words in a relatively short time and study grammar much much more effectively than I would have done in a normal language course.

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