PhD Research OS

The PhD Research OS is a complete build blueprint (PDF guide) for setting up a research organisation system inside your own Notion — a projects register, a sources register, a notes register, a milestones board, an experiments and data log and a documents register, tied together by relations and rollups and read from a single dashboard.

What it is: an exact, step-by-step build specification — every database, every property (name + type), every view, and every formula written out in full, plus a sequenced 30-minute build checklist, a sample-data chapter with fictional data and stated expected totals, and weekly + monthly workflows. It is organisation only: the sources register is an index of the reading you already hold — a label, a kind, a date and a link per item — and the guide contains no academic content of any kind.

What’s inside the system: Projects Register (every project with its kind label, state and a Source Count), Sources Register (your own reading, indexed against its project), Notes Register (your own notes, in your own words), Milestones Board (dated milestone rows you set yourself), Experiments/Data Log (experiment and data rows as you record them, with any cost you noted) and Documents Register (the documents behind the work, indexed beside their project) — plus the Dashboard.

Honest note: this is a build-it-yourself blueprint guide, NOT a hosted duplicate-this link — you build the system in your own Notion (the free plan is enough; no Notion subscription needed), following the guide step by step. Building it yourself means you own it outright, understand every part of it, and no seller can ever revoke access. Setup follows the checklist; most builders finish in about 30 minutes.

Instant download — 13-page PDF. Planning/organization tool only — not accounting, tax or legal advice.