Study with your person, not a stranger on a webcam
Studying with someone works because leaving is awkward. Most online versions replace your friend with a stranger, which brings the awkwardness back and loses the reason it worked.
Open study rooms ask you to perform
One-to-one webcam matching and rooms of several thousand both work by putting you in front of strangers. That is concentration with an audience you did not choose, which is a different and more tiring thing than sitting near a friend.
A streak with one named person is a promise to them. A streak against a rotating cast of strangers is just a number.
Built for the person you already revise with
Pair once. After that, starting is the only decision left.
Nothing to set up and nobody to look presentable for. Your partner sees that you started and how long is left.
Both of you get reminded, so Tuesday at seven stops being a negotiation and becomes the thing that happens on Tuesday at seven.
25, 50 and 90 minutes as presets, or type your own. Revision does not divide neatly into someone else’s preferred interval.
Three steps, then it is a habit
One link, once. After that they are who you study with, every time.
Set a standing time you both get reminded about.
Four seconds from opening the app to a running clock. Nothing to configure.
When the revision is done
The same pairing has a game in it, which is a better reason to stop at the end of a session than closing the laptop and going back to your phone.