If you’re a student or if you happen to be the parent of one or more students you might want to check out  Soshiku,  a new web-based productivity application by  Definitialize that has just launched.  Designed specifically for students by a student - 17 year old founder, Andrew Schaper.  This enterprising young developer claims that frustration with not being able to keep track of all of his school work assignments and the lack of a service that addressed this problem compelled him to code the application himself.

While Soshiku is not really a GTD application in the strictest sense of GTD, it is nevertheless both an impressive development effort as well as a much needed tool for a group that as a whole tends to be both underserved by technology while at the same time being among the most comfortable with it.

The application has received some highly positive reviews including one by no less than Mashable which was highly complimentary of Andrew’s efforts.

Soshiku supports students several ways, it allows them to enter courses and then assignments for each course as well as the dates upon which those assignments are due.  It allso allows you to set up reminders for these due dates that can be sent to you via email or SMS or both.  The application also supports a limited degree of collaboration that includes the ability to exchange messages among users, to store and share documents online and to collectively manage and edit notes and assignments tha are all stored in a central online receptacle making it easy for students to work together on projects.

Mashable was surprised that nothing like this had been developed before and so am I and frankly I am very impressed that someone as young as Andrew managed to build this application.  Having worked on Foldera which was originally a robust orgnization and collaboration application that never made it to a fully live status I know first hand how difficult it is to build one of these kinds of applications, let alone one that works as well as SoShiku appears to. Oh yeah, before I forget, Soshiku is also FREE.

If you’re a student or a parent of a student and either you or your child has used or is using Soshiku and you would like to share your experience with GTDtimes readers, please write to me at editor at gtdtimes dot com and we’ll publish your first hand review of the application.

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