NoTestudo Editorial
The NoTestudo team
NoTestudo Editorial is the shared byline of the team that builds NoTestudo at narb, a student-founded company. We write about habits, the places that shape them, and the hours and dollars people keep, in plain language and with the research cited whenever we make a claim. We aren’t clinicians, and nothing here is medical advice. When we describe the app, we stick to what it does today.
Articles by NoTestudo Editorial
Sobriety
Missed a week? Start the next one
A week that went sideways doesn’t erase the ones before it. How to restart without the guilt spiral, whether the goal is fewer nights out or more gym mornings.
Focus & study
The library does half the work
Why studying in the same place makes starting easier, and what NoTestudo can and can’t see about your study time.
News
Dom spoke at the Idea Factory launch
At the launch of the Clark School’s Idea Factory, Dominic Liriano spoke as the student representing xFoundry, to an audience of alumni and potential investors.
Sobriety
No bars on weeknights
A place-based plan for drinking less during the week: pick the nights, plan the route home, and let the record show you the pattern.
News
Game day in xFoundry’s suite
xFoundry invited the NoTestudo team to its suite for Maryland’s home game against UCLA. A thank-you to the people behind the Mental Health Xperience.
Campus life
Groups that don’t need your location
Accountability helps, and it doesn’t require anyone to see where you are. How NoTestudo groups share streaks and on-track days, and nothing else.
Campus life
Getting to the 8 a.m.
Early classes are hard for a reason. A few place-based ideas for the morning, and how a “Get to class” goal counts the days you make it.
Money & time
The coffee run math
Small, repeated stops are easy to miss. A little arithmetic on coffee runs and takeout, and a few ways to keep more without giving up what you like.
Money & time
The hours and dollars you keep
Hours and dollars kept, never a score. What NoTestudo’s numbers mean, how they’re worked out, and what they can’t tell you.
Fitness
Go more, go less: one week, two directions
Some goals are about showing up more. Some are about showing up less. How to set up both around real places, starting with the gym.
Habits & places
Your habits have addresses
Habits are tied to the places where they happen. That makes places one of the most useful things to plan around.
Habits & places
Why habit logs fall apart by Wednesday
Most habit trackers only know what you tell them. Why the logging tends to stop right when the week gets hard, and what a record that keeps itself looks like.