The deadline was set months ago. Work back from it.
A course is a project whose plan is the syllabus; a research question is a project that outlives the term. Noots gives each one its own board, timeline and files, records your supervisions and group meetings into action lists, and keeps the dates that do not move - submission, review, the defence - in front of everyone working toward them.
7 apps queued at setup - untick any of them before you finishDefault project tabs
Files and Timeline carry the papers and the fixed deadlines, Goals tracks the term's outcomes; Capacity and Budget are off - a study group is not resourced like an agency.
Projects created on day one
- Research
- Coursework
- Thesis & Writing
The three that do the heavy lifting.
Choose this industry during setup and its tools are queued for you. Review the list, drop anything you don't want, and the workspace initialises with the rest already working - or install any one of them on its own, later, from the marketplace.
Codex
The lab notebook that outlives the semester: literature notes, protocols, onboarding and how-tos as searchable pages, every change stamped with who touched it and when.
- Pages grouped by category, searchable
- Protocols and runbooks beside the work
- Every edit stamped with author and time
- The new group member reads it on day one
Experiment Log
Every experiment gets a hypothesis, the metric it is meant to move, and a verdict - won, lost or inconclusive - so the group never re-runs a question it already settled.
- Hypothesis and primary metric per entry
- Status: running, won, lost, inconclusive
- The outcome and what you learned, recorded
- One shared log for the whole group
Polls & Surveys
Five timetables, one free hour: post a poll, let the group vote, and watch the tally live. Works as well for “which paper do we present” as for “when do we meet”.
- Single- or multiple-choice questions
- Live tallies as the votes land
- Settles “when do we meet” in one post
- The answer stays visible, not buried in chat
What changes, in the hours it actually changes.
Three moments from an ordinary week. Every one of them is a thing the product does, not a thing it could be configured to do one day.
09:00
supervision, recorded and turned into next steps
The weekly supervision happens on Meet, Teams, Zoom or a Noots call, and the bot sits in. What comes back is not a recording you will never replay: it is a summary with the decisions and a list of actions, each one landing on the thesis board with a name on it. Next week opens with what was actually agreed, not what anyone remembers.
13:30
the group project finds its hour
Five people, five timetables. A poll settles the slot, the meeting lands on everyone's calendar, and the project board says who took the slides, who took the data section and what is still unclaimed. “I thought you were doing that” stops being how the group finds out a week before the deadline.
17:00
the draft goes where the last one is
The chapter draft, the dataset and the annotated PDFs live on the project's files tab, beside the tasks they belong to. Literature notes and the lab protocol live in Codex, where the next person to join the group reads them on day one. Nothing that matters is three inboxes deep or on one person's laptop.
These sit on top of the whole product.
- The meeting bot joins supervisions and group calls on Meet, Teams or Zoom and returns a summary with owned action items
- Timeline and calendar carry the dates a syllabus or a submission window fixed months ago
- Goals track the term's outcomes: pass the module, submit the paper, schedule the defence
- Files keep drafts, datasets and PDFs on the project they belong to, not in a mailbox
- GitHub linking connects commits and pull requests to tasks, for the groups that ship code
- Ten interface languages, a high-contrast palette and a text-size setting on every account
The honest edges.
- Noots is not a reference manager and not an LMS. It does not format citations, host course content or grade anything - drafts and PDFs attach to the work, and your library lives in the tool built for it.
- Your university's systems stay the source of record for enrolment, grades and funding. Noots holds the work of studying and researching, not the institution's records.
- The bot records the meetings you send it to - supervisions, group meetings, lab meetings. It is not a lecture-capture system.
- Noots holds no FERPA, SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestation, and does not claim one.
How Academia & Research actually runs.
Each of these is a project in Noots - its own board, tab strip, meetings, calendar and members. They are not pre-built modules and we will not pretend they are: what the industry gives you is the right defaults around them.
Built for the way your trade actually runs.
The ones buyers ask first.
Is this for students or for research staff?
Can it manage my citations and reading list?
How does a five-person group project actually use it?
What does it cost a student?
Open a workspace that already knows Academia & Research.
Answer what your organisation does, review what gets installed, and start with the boards, meetings, chat and calendar already in the right shape.
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