Free tools for research groups

Small tools for the chores that come with research: conference deadlines, grant spending, effort reporting, planning a dissertation and drawing the Gantt chart a proposal asks for. They run in your browser, need no account and keep nothing.

• AoE deadline converter

  Turn an Anywhere on Earth deadline into your time zone, with a live countdown and a calendar file.

  For: Researchers submitting to conferences and journals

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• PhD and research proposal Gantt chart maker

  Start from a PhD, master's or proposal timeline, edit the tasks and download the chart as an image.

  For: PhD students and anyone writing a research proposal

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• Dissertation word count breakdown

  Words per chapter for any word limit, and how many words a day to finish by your deadline.

  For: Undergraduate, master's and PhD students

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• Person-months and percent effort calculator

  Convert percent effort to person-months and back, for 12, 9 and 3-month appointments or an EU-style FTE.

  For: PIs and grant administrators

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• Grant burn rate calculator

  Burn ratio, runway and run-out date for a grant, with commitments counted.

  For: PIs, lab managers and grant administrators

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AoE deadlines in your time zone

• AoE to IST
• AoE to EST
• AoE to PST
• AoE to UTC
• AoE to GMT
• AoE to CET

Built by the team behind LetRelay, a workspace for research groups. More tools are added as labs ask for them: tell us what is missing.