Unlock academic excellence with this Researcher's Toolkit. Our collection will streamline your literature reviews, data collection, and thesis planning. Let Notion make the research process smoother so you can focus on what really matters—your groundbreaking work.
1. Research Processing System
The sheer volume of scientific literature is overwhelming. This template alleviates the challenges of literature review by providing a proven methodology to discern, prioritize, understand, and digest research papers. The system is equipped to quickly capture research papers, organize them, and facilitate an information processing workflow, while also providing an easy-to-navigate repository of processed papers. Additionally, the template offers comprehensive educational material, including a workflow diagram, of how to apply the “three-pass methodology” with this system.
2. Thesis Writing Companion
Complete your thesis with this guide:
- Resources: A place to keep all resources needed for the thesis
- A guide through ideation to final presentation
- Task overview to manage the tasks you have ahead and finally
- A Feedback section to gather important notes from lecturers or friends
3. Research Paper Planner
Make this your homepage for planning and writing a research paper or dissertation. It can help you brainstorm and evaluate potential topics. Keep a full list of sources bundled neatly with your notes on each one (all quickly searchable). And stay on track with a timeline of due dates, where you can also draft all your content — all in the same space.
4. Workspace Template for Ph.D. Students
A Ph.D. student's life is usually broken down into four blocks: Research, Coursework, Teaching, and Personal/Service. This template helps separate these blocks, so the tasks related to them seem less daunting. Also included in this template is a research page, where users can organize their ideas and the stage at which their research and manuscripts are.
5. Lab Notebook
Physical lab notebooks have a rigid chronological structure that makes them hard to read. This Notion template offers a more intuitive and logical organization that allows you to interface with your data in meaningful ways.
Apart from recording and reviewing your data, this template also allows you to plan future experiments and manage your daily tasks.
6. Literature review template
A literature review can be used to explore best practices, answer questions without conducting studies, validate an assumption or product decision, and cover gaps in research.
7. Academic CV
As a researcher it's important to have an academic portfolio that is easily accessible online. Use this template to host important information about you and your research.
Showcase your interests, publications, outreach, extension, media, and more. Use Notion's share to web feature to make your page public on the internet!
8. Thesis Dashboard
Writing a thesis can be a daunting task, and it can be difficult to stay on track and organised throughout the process. However, with the Thesis Dashboard, you can easily keep all of your tasks, documents, and meetings in one place, allowing you to focus on the important work of writing your thesis.
### Features
- **Brain Dump**: A separate database in kanban style to organise and keep track of articles that you can use as inspiration for certain parts of your thesis. You can sort articles according to sections where you want to use them.
- **Master To-Do List:** This feature allows you to manage tasks related to your thesis. You can set due dates, add notes, and relate a task for specific chapters with Notion’s relations property.
- **Meeting Notes:** This feature allows you to document important discussions and decisions made during meetings with your thesis supervisor, manage files such as slides and reading, track meetings for future reference if something comes to your mind.
- **Literature Review:** This feature helps you keep track of relevant literature on your topic. With pre-build template you can analyse each article and organise articles according to their themes, authors, publication year, journal, methodology and sample.
- **Data Analysis:** The data analysis feature enables you to keep track of and organize your data analysis process. You can analyze your findings according to the properties required for your data analysis and later compile a table that shows your approach to analyzing data.
### Benefits
- **Stay Organised:** The template helps you stay organised and keep track of your progress. With its comprehensive set of features, you can easily manage your tasks, documents, and meetings in one place.
- **Save Time:** The template streamlines the thesis writing process, saving you time and effort. You can easily locate and access all relevant documents, and keep track of important deadlines and meetings.
Notion Thesis Dashboard is an essential tool for any student working on a thesis. This template can help you stay organised, save time, and improve the quality of your work.
