A course is a project. A thesis is a longer one.
Nobody hands a student a project plan, and nobody hands a lab group one either. Noots gives the module, the study and the thesis each their own board, timeline and files; sits in on supervisions and group meetings and hands back the decisions plus a list of actions with names against them; 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 group's memory, and it outlives whoever wrote it: 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 reading notes beside the work
- Every edit stamped with author and time
- The person who joins in October reads it on day one
Experiment Log
Every run gets a hypothesis, the metric it is meant to move, and a verdict - won, lost or inconclusive - so a question the group already settled does not get asked again in March.
- Hypothesis and primary metric per entry
- Status: running, won, lost, inconclusive
- The outcome and what you learned, recorded
- One shared log, so a null result is still a result
Polls & Surveys
Post the question once and watch the tally as the votes land. It settles “when do we meet” as well as it settles “which paper are we presenting”, and neither answer gets lost in a thread.
- 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, and what was agreed survives it
The weekly supervision happens on Meet, Teams, Zoom or a Noots call and the bot sits in. What comes back is not an hour of audio you will never replay: it is the decisions, and a list of actions each landing on the thesis board with a name against it. Next week opens on what was agreed rather than on what anyone remembers.
13:30
five timetables, one free hour
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 a group finds out, a week before the deadline.
17:00
the draft goes where the last one went
The chapter, the dataset and the annotated PDFs sit 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 reads them on day one. Nothing that matters is three inboxes deep or on one 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?
My supervisor will not have a bot in the room. Is that the end of 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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