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Upload the PDFs. Get one calendar, a plan for every course, a buddy who answers questions about them, and a reason to open it every day.

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That's Buddy. It reads every page, scans included, and tells you which dates it had to guess.

Tuesday, October 6

Morning, Sam

🔥 12
Lvl 3 · Finding the rhythm210/360 XP

Tap a circle. Go on.

Problem set 3

MATH 1ZA3 · Fri · 11:59 PM

4%

Reflection: Leadership Panel

IBH 1LD0 · Tue · check date

3%

Midterm Test 1

ECON 1B03 · Sat · 12:30 PM · room TBA

20%

Chapter 4 MyLab homework

ECON 1B03 · Mon · 11:59 PM

1%

Today's classes

10:30IBH 1BD3 TutorialUH B116
11:30IBH 1AA3 LectureBSB 108
1:30ECON 1B03 LecturePGCLL B138

Works with course outlines from

McMaster UniversityWestern UniversityUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of GuelphWilfrid Laurier UniversityYork UniversityUniversity of OttawaMcGill UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaCarleton UniversityBrock UniversityUniversity of WindsorConcordia UniversityDalhousie UniversityUniversity of VictoriaMcMaster UniversityWestern UniversityUniversity of WaterlooUniversity of GuelphWilfrid Laurier UniversityYork UniversityUniversity of OttawaMcGill UniversityUniversity of British ColumbiaCarleton UniversityBrock UniversityUniversity of WindsorConcordia UniversityDalhousie UniversityUniversity of Victoria

Logos belong to their universities. SyllaBuddy isn't affiliated with any of them; it just reads their PDFs.

How it works

Three minutes to set up. Then it runs your term.

Step one

Drop in the PDF.

Course outline, syllabus, timetable. Typed or scanned. Buddy reads every page and pulls out every graded item, its weight, its date, and the rules that bite. About a minute per document.

Add a course

Drop in the syllabus PDF. Scans are fine.

ECON 1B03 Course Outline.pdf

21 pages · scanned · 2.4 MB

Opening the PDF…

Every morning

Open it. Today is sorted.

What's due, what's coming, which class is where. Tick a bubble and XP floats up, scaled to what the thing is worth. Big ones get confetti.

Tuesday, October 6

Morning, Sam

🔥 12
Lvl 3 · Finding the rhythm210/360 XP

Today

Problem set 3

MATH 1ZA3 · Fri 11:59 PM

4%

Reflection: Leadership Panel

IBH 1LD0 · Tue

3%

Chapter 4 MyLab homework

ECON 1B03 · Mon 11:59 PM

1%

Big ones coming

ECON 1B03

Midterm Test 1

in 11 days · 20%

IBH 1AA3

Case report

in 2 weeks · 15%

Whenever

Ask it like a friend who read everything.

“What do I need on the final for an 80?” “What happens if I miss the midterm?” Real answers from your actual syllabi, with the numbers. And when you just need to vent, it listens first.

Ask Buddy

Ask about any course…↑

All term

Show up. Watch it fill.

A streak for opening it, a level for finishing things, a ring per course that fills as the term goes.

Sam

McMaster · Fall 2026

🔥 12

day streak

Lvl 3

Finding the rhythm

31

things done

Courses

34%

ECON 1B03

21%

IBH 1AA3

48%

MATH 1ZA3

60%

IBH 1LD0

Badges

★

Showed up

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First tick

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Full deck

★

Week warrior

Under the hood

A syllabus goes in. A term comes out.

Buddy reads every page, finds every date, weight and rule, and puts each one where it belongs. Then it tells you what it wasn't sure about.

ECON 1B03 Course Outline.pdf

Reading every page…

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  • Midterm Test 1 · Sat Oct 3 · 20%
  • MyLab homework · Mondays 11:59 PM · 1% each
  • Opt out of textbook by Sep 18
  • No make-ups. MSAF or zero.

Real syllabi, real output

It catches what the prof got wrong.

These are unedited lines Buddy wrote after reading real McMaster course outlines, two of them phone-camera scans.

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pages, scanned

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to read it

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graded items found

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contradictions flagged

IBH 1AA3 · Financial Accounting
“Assignment 4's close date conflicts: the assignment table says Sunday Oct 18, the weekly schedule says Oct 11.”
IBH 1AA3 · Financial Accounting
“Online assignment weight is inconsistent: the table says 10% total, the description says 2.5% each and also 1.25% each. I used 1.25% so the total is 100.”
IBH 1LD0 · Leadership Development
“The outline lists “Tuesday September 3” for the introduction, but Sept 3, 2026 is a Thursday. Confirm the real date with the coordinator.”
ECON 1B03 · Microeconomics
“MyLab assignments open Wednesdays at 9 p.m. and slam shut Sundays at 11:59 p.m. with zero extensions, ever. Treat those Sunday nights as hard walls.”
ECON 1B03 · Microeconomics
“Final exam date, time and location are TBA. Do not book December travel.”
IBH 1AA3 · Financial Accounting
“10% Top Hat participation you can only earn by physically sitting in class. Remote logins are reported to Academic Integrity.”

What's inside

Built for the way a term actually goes.

📄

Reads the PDF, scans included

Every graded item, its weight, its date. The late policy, the calculator rule, the opt-out deadline. Weekly homework becomes ten dated entries, not one vague line.

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One calendar, every course

Each course in its own colour. Tests, reflections, reading week. Tap a day and see exactly what it holds.

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Tick it, earn it

Every task is a bubble. Tick it and XP floats up, scaled to what it's worth. Streaks, levels, badges. Big ones get confetti.

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Ask anything

“What do I need on the final for an 80?” Buddy answers from your actual syllabi, with the numbers.

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What you need on the rest

Enter marks as they come back. It works out what you need on everything left to finish with the grade you want.

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Reminders before the big ones

A heads-up the day before anything worth 10% or more, and the morning of a test. Or send it all to Google or Apple Calendar.

Guides

Useful even if you never sign up.

All guides →How it works →Compared to Notion, Google Calendar and your LMS →

By school

Built around your LMS.

MacWesternWaterlooGuelphLaurierYorkU of TQueen'suOttawaCarletonTMUBrockWindsorUBCMcGillDalConcordiaUVic

Each page has the exact steps for that school's calendar feed.

Stop re-reading PDFs.

Upload them once. Buddy does the rest for the whole term. Free while it's new.

Start your term

Start your term.

Under a minute. Your syllabi stay yours.