Printable PDF Dissertation Planner

Plan your dissertation backwards from your defense date and see where your literature review is thin: a printable PDF planner plus an Excel and Google Sheets workbook.

What You Get

• phd-planner-pack_planner_Letter.pdf: 17 fillable pages for US Letter paper
• phd-planner-pack_planner_A4.pdf: the same 17 pages for A4 paper
• phd-planner-pack_research-pipeline_v1.xlsx: 7 sheets (Start here, Pipeline, Lit Matrix, Milestones, Weekly Log, Lists, License) with sample rows, formulas only, no macros
• phd-planner-pack_research-pipeline_v1_blank.xlsx: the same workbook with the sample rows cleared
• 00_READ_ME_FIRST.pdf: 1 page with what is inside, how to open the files, support and the license

The planner pages: instructions, overview with committee and key dates, a 24-month backward timeline (2 pages), a literature review matrix (2 pages, 28 rows), a literature review sprint page, a 20-row reading log, chapter plans (2 pages, 8 chapters), a weekly writing plan, an advisor meeting agenda (2 per page) and notes page, a revision response grid, a quals reading tracker, a progress dashboard with study-process prompts, and the license.

The workbook: a pipeline of up to 40 chapters, papers and talks with stage counts and overdue flags; a literature matrix of up to 200 sources with counts per theme and method and a flag for themes with fewer than 3 sources; 20 milestones counted back from your defense date; and a 52-week writing log with a running word total.

Planning pages only; no discipline content, citation style rules or institution requirements are included.

How It Works

• Instant download. Open the PDFs in any PDF reader, print at actual size on Letter or A4, and fill the shaded boxes on screen or by hand.
• Open the workbook in Excel 2016 or later, or open Google Sheets, then File, Import, Upload this file.
• Sample rows in the workbook are marked Sample. Use the _blank file, or delete them and type your own.

Who It Is For

PhD, doctoral and master's thesis writers who want one calm place for the timeline, the reading, the chapters, the weekly writing and the advisor meetings.

Requirements

The planner PDFs are fillable on screen (any PDF reader) or print-and-write; Letter and A4 files are both included. Excel 2016 or later, or Google Sheets, for the workbook. A printer if you want paper copies.

Licence

License for one buyer: use it yourself, in your household, or for the one club, class or organization you use it for. No resale or redistribution.

Refunds

Digital files are not returnable, but if anything is wrong with your file we will fix it or refund you within three working days. Refund at once, no argument: a missing file, a file that will not open, or the wrong paper size.

About

Made with the help of AI tools and designed, tested and checked by the seller. Designed and checked by the seller: a studio led by a PhD and former university faculty member who designs systems and spreadsheets for a living.