Ask Siri What's Due: Voice-First School Planning on iPhone and Mac

There’s a category of school-planner interaction that doesn’t deserve a screen: “What’s due today?” while packing your bag. “When’s my next exam?” while making breakfast. “Add a Physics task for Friday” the second your teacher says it, hands full of textbooks.

That’s what StudyWillow’s Siri support is for — on iPhone and Mac, with the same phrasing on both.

What you can ask

The questions answer instantly, with a glanceable card instead of a spoken paragraph:

• “What’s due today?” / “What’s due this week?” — your tasks and deadlines, in order
• “When is my next exam?” — the next exam with its countdown
• “How are my grades?” — your current average, honestly

And the actions actually do things:

• “Add a task” — capture homework the moment it’s assigned, with subject and due date
• “Add a reminder” / “Add an exam” — same, for the other things school throws at you
• “Start a focus session” — the timer starts for real, streak and all
• “Mark my attendance” — one sentence, logged

Every action shows a confirmation card before anything is saved — voice input deserves the same review-first respect as AI Scan. You see what’s about to be added; nothing lands in your planner by mumble.

Why the Mac version matters

Most “Siri support” in apps means iPhone-only. StudyWillow’s voice layer is built twice from one design — the iPhone and Mac implementations are kept line-for-line identical — because the moment you’re deep in an essay on your Mac is exactly the moment you don’t want to reach for your phone to log “finish bibliography by Thursday”.

Ask the machine you’re already sitting at. The answer syncs everywhere anyway.

The honest parts

Two design decisions worth knowing about:

It answers from your real data. The cards are built from the same synced planner the app shows — not a cached guess. If your data hasn’t synced since a change on another device, the card reflects the last synced state, same as any widget.

It respects your plan. Some capabilities follow your account tier, and Siri tells you honestly instead of failing silently — no dead-end shrugs, no fake results.

Try it

Siri support is live today on iPhone and Mac. Say “Hey Siri, what’s due in StudyWillow?” — and if you’re setting up your planner for the first time, the AI Scan update coming next makes that first setup a photo instead of an evening of typing.