Workspace templates
Each template starts a workspace with research questions and tasks for a common kind of project. See what one sets up, name your workspace, and change anything after.
Grant Proposal
Structure for writing a research grant, including specific aims, significance, and budget alignment.
5 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What is the overarching hypothesis or objective?
- Why is this research significant to the funding agency?
- What are the key preliminary results that support this proposal?
Tasks, in order
- Draft Specific Aims page
- Compile preliminary data figures
- Draft Research Strategy
- Finalize budget and justification
- Internal review by colleagues
Tags: grant, proposal, funding
Lab Meeting / Team
A collaborative workspace for lab meetings, weekly updates, and tracking team progress.
3 tasks · 2 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What are the critical blockers for the team this week?
- Which projects require additional resources or time?
Tasks, in order
- Prepare weekly lab update slides
- Review student thesis drafts
- Update equipment schedule
Tags: team, lab-meeting, management
Literature Review
Standard literature review setup with research questions, paper categories, and synthesis tasks.
6 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What is the current state of the art?
- What are the key limitations of existing approaches?
- What research gaps exist?
Tasks, in order
- Define inclusion/exclusion criteria
- Search databases (Scholar, Semantic Scholar)
- Screen abstracts (100 papers)
- Full-text review (top 20)
- Extract key findings per paper
- Synthesize findings into narrative
Tags: literature-review, academic
Experiment Tracker
Track experiments end to end: hypothesis, protocol, runs, analysis, and replication.
6 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- Does the intervention produce the predicted effect?
- Which variables most influence the outcome?
- How reproducible is the result across runs and conditions?
Tasks, in order
- Define the hypothesis and success criteria
- Design the protocol and controls
- Run a pilot to validate the setup
- Execute runs and record observations
- Analyze results against the hypothesis
- Replicate the key result and write up methods
Tags: experiments, methods, reproducibility
Systematic Review
PRISMA-style systematic review with screening, extraction, and quality assessment.
8 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What is the primary PICO/research question?
- What is the effect size across studies?
- What is the risk of bias?
Tasks, in order
- Register review protocol
- Search 5+ databases
- Title/abstract screening
- Full-text screening
- Data extraction form
- Quality assessment (RoB2)
- Meta-analysis (if applicable)
- PRISMA flow diagram
Tags: systematic-review, prisma, evidence-synthesis
PhD Research Project
Manage a PhD research project — literature, experiments, writing, and milestones.
7 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What is the core research contribution?
- How does this advance the field?
- What are the key risks / negative results?
Tasks, in order
- Literature review (Chapter 2)
- Research proposal draft
- IRB / Ethics approval (if needed)
- Pilot study
- Main study data collection
- Analysis and write-up
- Submit to advisor
Tags: phd, dissertation, research
Clinical Research / RCT
Randomized controlled trial or clinical study setup with CONSORT-aligned tasks.
9 tasks · 4 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What is the primary efficacy endpoint?
- What are the inclusion/exclusion criteria?
- What adverse events should be monitored?
- Is the intervention superior to standard of care?
Tasks, in order
- Write and register study protocol
- IRB / Ethics board submission
- ClinicalTrials.gov registration
- Participant recruitment and screening
- Baseline data collection
- Intervention administration
- Primary endpoint analysis
- CONSORT flow diagram
- Manuscript preparation
Tags: clinical, rct, medicine, consort
Data Analysis
Take a dataset from acquisition through cleaning and exploration to an interpreted, reproducible result.
8 tasks · 3 questions
What it sets up
Questions
- What question does this dataset need to answer?
- Is the data sufficient, representative, and free of systematic bias?
- Do the findings hold under alternative analyses?
Tasks, in order
- Define the question and success criteria
- Acquire the data and document its provenance
- Clean and validate; record exclusions
- Explore distributions and check assumptions
- Run the primary analysis
- Test robustness with alternative specifications
- Reproducibility audit (data versions, seeds, environment)
- Interpret findings and write up methods
Tags: data-analysis, statistics, reproducibility