Dissertation logbook: the memory ChatGPT does not keep
Free · Thesis & dissertation

The part of a coach a chatbot cannot be

A dissertation runs for months. What actually derails it is not a lack of advice, it is that nothing remembers: your brief, your marking criteria, what your supervisor asked for in March, and where you got to. This logbook keeps all of it between sessions, and tells you the one next step.

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Free · no account Everything stays in your browser Organises, never writes for you
What it remembers for you
Your brief, in full, as given
Your marking criteria and where each stands
Every supervisor comment, and whether it is dealt with
Eight stages, counted back from your viva date

A new chat window remembers none of this. That is the whole point.

Your project

Start with the frame

It is used to build the timeline backwards. You can change it later.

Everything stays in your browser: no account, no server. Clear the site data and the logbook goes with it, so export it now and then.

Backwards timeline from your vivaOne next step, always Supervisor comment trackerExport to PDF or Word
Being straight with you

This is a logbook, not a conversation

The coach we want to build talks back: it questions your research question, argues with your method, reads a passage against your criteria. That needs a language model, and we have not switched one on yet. Rather than fake a chat and charge for it, we shipped the half that needs no model at all, and made it free. If you want the talking version, join the list below and tell us what it is worth to you.

How it works

Set it up once, come back to it weekly

1

The frame

Subject, level, type of work, viva date and your brief. Two minutes, once.

2

The route

Eight stages with due dates counted back from your viva, and a checklist inside each.

3

The memory

Criteria, supervisor comments and what you fixed, carried from one session to the next.

FAQ

Common questions

Important: this logbook organises your work and remembers what was said; it does not assess it. The status of each criterion is the one you set yourself, and only your supervisor judges how far along you really are. We write no part of your dissertation.
Why is there no chat?

Because a real coaching conversation needs a language model and we have not switched one on for this tool yet. Imitating one with canned replies would be worse than useless. When it exists, it will build on exactly this logbook.

Why is it free, then?

Charging a subscription for a logbook with no coach in it would be dishonest. It stays free until the conversation exists, and the list above is how we find out whether anyone wants that at all.

Why not just use ChatGPT?

Use it, by all means. But it forgets your brief, your marking grid and what your supervisor said last month the moment you close the window, and a dissertation runs for six. This remembers, and it never writes your work for you.

Where is my logbook stored?

In your browser's local storage, on this device. No account, no server. Export it now and then, because clearing your site data deletes it for good.

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