Run your PhD like a project — and finish it.
Track your research as projects with tasks, arrange them into thesis chapters, and see your whole doctorate on one timeline. Plus the guardrails that actually get PhDs over the line: the right supervisory team, an external committee on time, and regular progress meetings.
Completely free.
Research projects, with tasks
Run each study or paper as its own project. Track tasks, deadlines and exactly where the manuscript stands.
- Statuses that match real life: idea → data collection → analysis → writing → submitted → under review → revisions → published
- Tasks with categories, deadlines and status
- See progress per study at a glance
Assemble your thesis
Your studies become the chapters of your book. Arrange them into the right order and watch the table of contents take shape.
- Order chapters (introduction, studies, discussion, summary)
- Link each study to its chapter
- See what's still to do per chapter
One timeline for the whole PhD
A vertical timeline across your years — studies as bars, milestones as markers, and how much time you have left to your defense.
- Opens centred on today; zoom from overview to detail
- Go/no-go, mid-term review, green light, defense milestones
- Time-to-defense progress at a glance
Meetings that run themselves
Prepare with a live snapshot of your progress, build the agenda, capture action items as you talk, present on the big screen, and share a live link.
- Prep: timeline, studies, chapters and what's left — all clickable
- Present mode for the big screen; capture action items live
- Share a read-only live link, or send it by email
Present & share live
Go fullscreen for the meeting and let your supervisors follow along on a link that updates as you edit — no screen-sharing needed.
- Fullscreen present view with agenda + action items
- Supervisors see the same progress context, live
- One-click progress reports with a shareable link
It's not just the work — it's the structure
Built by someone who did a PhD. When you start, PhD Planner gives you the success conditions as free tips and to-dos, and tracks them as you go.
Your supervisory team
Line up 1–2 promotors and 1–2 co-promotors and keep them in the loop.
An external committee, on time
Start forming your assessment committee early — not in the final year.
Regular progress meetings
Meet every 3–6 months at first, then at least yearly — scheduled ahead.
Formal milestones
Go/no-go, mid-term review, green light and defense, planned from the start.
A defense date to aim for
Anchor your timeline to a target and work back from there.
A clear thesis structure
Know which studies become which chapters, and what's left per chapter.
How it works
Add your studies
Capture each paper/study and its tasks.
Plan the timeline
Set dates and milestones across your PhD.
Build the thesis
Arrange studies into ordered chapters.
Run meetings
Prepare, present and share with supervisors.
Your PhD, organised.
Free to use. Bring order to four years of research in one place.