You're a Penn State University student in State College, PA. Penn State students spread across multiple campuses and colleges face the challenge of keeping deadlines straight across divergent syllabi formats, every professor does it differently. SmartRemind reads your syllabus and texts you before every deadline, so you can focus on the work, not the calendar.
Built by a student, for students.
Drop in your course PDF, syllabus, schedule, or any document with dates. Takes about 30 seconds.
The AI reads your document and pulls out every assignment, exam, and due date automatically. No manual entry.
SmartRemind sends you an SMS the day before each deadline. Set it once and never miss anything again.
Calendar apps and push notifications are easy to ignore. A text message isn't. When your phone buzzes with a specific reminder about tomorrow's deadline, you notice it , even in the middle of a study session or a packed Penn State library. SmartRemind sends SMS directly to your phone, no app install required, no notification settings to configure. It works the same way a text from a friend does: it just shows up.
Yes. SmartRemind works with any PDF syllabus, and Penn State professors use a wide range of formats, table-based, paragraph-style, and everything in between. The AI handles all of them.
You upload a PDF of your syllabus. SmartRemind's AI reads the document, including text blocks, tables, and footnotes, and extracts every date and associated task it finds. The whole process takes about 30 seconds.
SmartRemind handles a wide range of formats. If anything gets missed, you can add reminders manually before confirming. Most syllabi parse completely on the first try.
One missed assignment costs you more than $5 in grade points at any school. SmartRemind is less than a coffee per month to make sure that never happens. No long-term commitment, cancel anytime.
Upload your Penn State syllabus today and get texts before every deadline this semester.