Struggling with schedule organization at start of semester. What do you all use?

Hey everyone!

My college uses Canvas and the notifications are pretty useless for me, they only tell you the day something is due, not a week or few days in advance when you actually need to start working on it.

I've tried setting up Notion and other organization apps like google calendar, but I always get overwhelmed spending hours at the beginning of the semester manually entering every assignment and due date from all my classes. By the time I'm done setting it up i dont even wanna look at it anymore.😅

What do you all use for assignment tracking? Do you just rely on Canvas? Use Google Calendar? Something else?

I feel like there has to be a better way than either:

1. Relying on Canvas last-minute notifications, or
2. Spending my entire first week manually typing out every assignment from 5 different class syllabi

Any tips would be super helpful! What's been working for you?