Created by Kaydee Barker. You can duplicate this to your own Notion as a template, which you can then customize and fill out with your own details! Just click “Duplicate” in the upper right and select your workspace.

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Conducting Research


Research Projects

Use this database to keep track of your research projects. It links to protocols you use, presentations, and literature. Use the item template to help you think about the writing process.

Research Projects

Protocols

This database holds protocols you use for your research projects.

Research Protocols

Keep Track of These Too

Presentations

Project Budgeting

Teaching

Resources & Professional Development


Resources


Thesis Roadmap

Individual Development Plan

Resources for STEM Students

Data File Structures for Organized Data

Meeting Notes


Notes with Supervisors

Conference & Society Meeting Notes

Training & Development Activities

This database is for keeping track of your learning progress and taking notes as you go.

Training & Development

Timeline of Action Items

Here is where you can visualize what you have to do and when during your PhD. Toggle between timeline and other views on the upper left. Timeline items can link to research projects and training & development activities, and large tasks can be broken down into multiple sub-tasks.

Timeline

Reading/Literature

This database will help you keep track of your reading. It can be added to a research project (in your research project database). It can also be synced with Zotero citation manager collections via an open-source Github project called Notero (see Notero link for syncing directions). You can also link to a collection in Research Rabbit to help you discover more relevant papers. Use the template item to facilitate a critical review of the paper.

Literature Note Tracker