Documenting your PhD — Keeping Track of Meetings, Experiments and Decisions

A PhD can be a difficult endeavour. While becoming an expert in tackling a specific problems, it is easy to lose track of things: Have I read this paper before? What was the paper saying? Why did we decide to change course? Why am I running these experiments? Who did I talk to at the last conference? Throughout my PhD, I learned that documenting these things made me significantly more effective with minimal overhead. In this article, I want to …

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