Tools

Cross-checks every citation in Google Docs and Overleaf in 30 seconds. Flags orphan citations (cited but not in your reference list), unused references (in your list but never cited), and broken or placeholder DOIs.

One keystroke turns any web selection into a saved, searchable quote — with the URL, page title, capture timestamp, and (for academic pages) the DOI and citation metadata. Pro exports to BibTeX for Zotero / LaTeX, CSV for Excel and pandas, JSON for backup, and Markdown for Obsidian and manuscript drafts.

Scans the methods section of your Google Docs draft against CONSORT 2025, STROBE, or PRISMA 2020 in under two seconds. Flags missing or partial items with the official guideline language and a curated example sentence — built for graduate students writing first-author papers in medicine, public health, and biomedical sciences. Writing in Overleaf, Word, or Pages? Use the side-panel Paste tab.

Matches your manuscript draft to relevant journals and surfaces prior work to cite from PubMed, OpenAlex and Crossref — all in a Chrome side panel, running entirely on your own device. Also checks a new draft for overlap with your own earlier papers. Your draft never leaves your laptop.

Converts vague PhD progress into structured weekly data and three calibrated pace projections — current pace, productive-PhD pace, realistic-with-effort — against your funding deadline. A 12-minute weekly review, non-judgemental obstacle capture, and opt-out pattern detection after four weeks. No streaks, no comparison, no prediction. All thesis data stays on your device.

A structured 8–12 week workbench for your dissertation defense — vulnerability map across methodological, empirical, theoretical and scope categories with prepared graceful acknowledgments; per-examiner research templates; a question bank seeded by ~150 curated anticipated questions across 10 categories; a practice timer with confidence tracking; and three exports (defense prep brief, Q&A flashcards, 2-page defense morning summary). No AI; your defense prep stays on your device.

Turns the final weeks before your PhD defense from passive re-reading into a structured rehearsal program — a question bank across eight research-grounded categories (foundational, methodology, theoretical, findings, limitations, future work, big picture, provocative), live speaking-time estimation while you draft each answer at the 130 wpm academic rate, and a self-rated aloud-practice loop whose weighted queue resurfaces your weakest answers more often. Vulnerability map and per-examiner profiles, unlimited. No AI; no microphone; nothing uploaded.

A structured workspace for recording consequential research decisions — alternatives, reasoning, assumptions, and what you expected — that resurfaces each decision for review at 30 days, 3, 6 and 12 months and thesis-completion, then shows your calibration from your own coded outcomes. No AI; reviews surface in-extension, never by email or push. Your decisions stay on your device.

A structured workspace for recurring 1:1 meetings with your research supervisor: a seven-section brief before each meeting (status, wins, reading, questions, decisions, blockers, milestones) with a live speaking-time meter, and an eight-section capture after. Action items, themes, and decisions to revisit surface above the next meeting’s brief — so meeting six builds on meeting one. No AI. Your meeting history stays on your device.

Scaffolds the structural synthesis work of a literature review: a per-paper card (research question, finding, methodology, your stance) captured from PubMed, bioRxiv, arXiv, Google Scholar, or manual entry; a filterable matrix that surfaces where the field agrees, where it's contested, and where the gaps are; a Markdown chapter scaffold with bracketed prompts where your synthesis paragraphs go. No AI; your synthesis cards stay on your device.

A workbench for adversarial self-examination of research hypotheses: 18 curated attacks drawn from philosophy of science (Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos, Quine) and causal inference (Pearl, Rubin, Hernán, Rosenbaum); per-attack defence capture with self-rated confidence, evidence and acknowledged residual vulnerability; deterministic adversarial follow-ups; vulnerability map plus cross-hypothesis comparison and defended-positions document exports. No AI; your hypotheses and defences stay on your device.

A Chrome extension for PhD qualifying-exam preparation: pick a field framework (Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, or Cancer Biology — each ~10–12 areas, 3–6 sub-topics per area); capture papers in one click from PubMed, bioRxiv, arXiv, and Google Scholar with depth marking (skimmed / read carefully / mastered); see a full-page coverage map shaded by paper count and depth; generate a gap report tiered against your exam date with priority recommendations; exports to BibTeX, CSV, JSON, and Markdown. No AI; your papers and notes stay on your device.

A side panel for research-funder application portals (NIH F31/F32, Damon Runyon, Helen Hay Whitney, HHMI Hanna Gray, NSF GRFP, Wellcome ECA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie, EMBO, Pew and others): eligibility against the user's profile with per-criterion verdicts; required sections with current word and page limits; evaluation criteria with reviewer sub-questions; sourced cultural conventions labelled by source type (official funder guide, research-administration literature, successful-applicant narrative, editorial expertise); content mapping from a local library of past sections with overlap estimates and a side-by-side word-diff workspace; optional local deadline reminders. No AI; your application content stays on your device.

A workspace for processing received academic feedback — supervisor emails, journal peer review, conference reviews, thesis committee notes, editor decision letters, grant reviewer comments and more. Paste the feedback, highlight any portion to lift it into a structured item (verbatim text, type, severity, underlying concern, specific action, success criteria, private internal note), and export the right document: plain action list, Response-to-Reviewers letter, Revision action plan memo, plain text, or PDF — with bracketed prompts marking where your prose goes. Five short reference frameworks teach the meta-skill of reading critique. No AI; your feedback stays on your device.