A PhD is not one project. It is a decade's worth of project management compressed into a few years, handed to someone who was hired for their research skills and never trained in any of it.

You apply across eight programmes with different deadlines. You read hundreds of papers and are expected to remember all of them. You work to a timeline nobody drew. And at the end, you defend the whole thing in a room.

This toolkit is the system for all of it. Six tools, covering the full arc of a doctorate. I built every one of these for my own PhD before refining them for anyone else.

WHAT'S INSIDE?

1. PhD Application Tracker (Excel & Google Sheets) Every programme, deadline, supervisor, document and referee in one place, with a scholarship tracker alongside. For the stage where a single missed date costs a year.

2. Literature Tracker (Excel & Google Sheets) The bestseller. Every source logged, with a self-updating dashboard showing what you have read, which topics dominate, and where your review still has gaps.

3. Milestone Tracker (Excel & Google Sheets) Your multi-year timeline, broken into phases with target versus actual dates, so you find out you are slipping while it is still fixable.

4. PhD Application Checklist (PDF) The document-by-document pass before you submit an application. Nothing forgotten at 11pm on a deadline.

5. Academic Writing Checklist (PDF) Structure, argument, evidence, citation, clarity. For every chapter, paper and draft.

6. Thesis Defense Template Preparation for the viva, structured. Because "I know my thesis" and "I can defend my thesis under questioning" are not the same skill.

✅ WHY BUY THE BUNDLE

• Covers application, reading, project management, writing and defence
• Excel and Google Sheets (with minor adjustments) versions of all three trackers
• Yours for the entire degree, and every project after it
• Instant download, lifetime access, free updates, no subscription

🎓 BUILT FOR

PhD candidates at any stage · PhD applicants · Doctoral researchers · Anyone starting a doctorate and wanting a system before the chaos arrives

Also a genuinely good gift for someone starting or finishing a PhD.

⚡ INSTANT DOWNLOAD

Files available the moment payment clears. For personal use; no resale or redistribution.

Questions? Message me, I answer every one. 🤍

Built by a researcher, for researchers.