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Templates, starter vaults, and scripts — free for every researcher.
Obsidian PhD Starter Vault
A pre-configured Obsidian vault built for PhD students. PARA structure, literature note templates, and a daily note system — set up in minutes, not hours.
Literature Note Template (Zotero + Obsidian)
A Templater-based Obsidian template that auto-fills literature note metadata from Zotero. Title, authors, year, DOI, abstract — pulled in automatically.
Matplotlib Publication Figure Template
A Python script with pre-configured rcParams and helper functions that produce clean, publication-ready figures matching journal style guides — without wrestling with matplotlib defaults.
PhD Thesis LaTeX Template
A clean, well-commented LaTeX thesis template tested with the pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex compilers. Includes a chapter structure, bibliography, appendices, and a title page that follows common university conventions.
Academic Conference Poster Template
An Inkscape SVG poster template for A0 portrait (841 × 1189 mm) academic conference posters. Clean three-column grid with pre-labelled sections for introduction, methods, results, and conclusions.
AI Decision Flowchart
One page, four questions: confidentiality, verifiability, competence, disclosure. Print it; pin it where AI-assisted work happens.
Conference Talk Template (Beamer)
A 16:9 Beamer deck in the site's oxford-navy-and-gold identity, with the structure that works: one claim, evidence, honest limitations.
Data Management Plan Template
A six-section DMP skeleton — description, organisation, storage, sensitive data, sharing, responsibilities — mappable onto any funder's format.
Figure Identity Kit
One visual identity for every figure: matplotlib style, TikZ preamble, Mermaid theme, and a palette file for SVG tools — the exact kit this site's figures use.
Journal Cover Letter (LaTeX)
The three-paragraph cover letter editors actually read — question, headline finding with a number, fit to the journal — as a compile-ready LaTeX letter.
Literature Review Tracker
A screening-and-extraction spreadsheet with the columns reviews actually need — citekey through evidence quality to citations-to-chase.
Research Codebase Starter
A project skeleton with the folder contract, Makefile, pinned environment, .gitignore, and CLAUDE.md rules — reproducibility decided before the first script.
Research Prompt Library
Ten field-tested prompts for reading, writing, code, and figures — each designed so the output is verifiable, plus the discipline rules that keep AI use defensible.
Researcher's Tool Checklist
The boring-but-correct baseline stack as a checkbox list: references, writing, code, notes, AI hygiene — audit your setup in ten minutes.
Supervision Meeting Pack
A before/during/after structure for supervision meetings: artifact-linked progress, one blocking item, decisions written down — the paper trail that protects PhDs.
Inkscape extensions
Open-source extensions that bring code, AI, and diagrams directly into Inkscape. Free on GitHub — no email required.
AI Image Generator for Inkscape
Create images with diffusion models from inside Inkscape — concept art, textures, and illustrative elements without switching tools.
AI SVG Generator for Inkscape
Generate SVG graphics from text prompts with an LLM, directly inside Inkscape — the most-starred of the extension family.
Bibliography References in Inkscape
Import references from your bibliography files directly into Inkscape documents — correctly formatted citations on posters without copy-paste roulette.
D2 Diagrams in Inkscape
Render D2 diagram code — architecture, ER, flowcharts — as editable SVG inside Inkscape.
LLM Text Generator for Inkscape
Generate and insert text with an LLM — including local models — without leaving Inkscape. Captions, labels, placeholder copy, on canvas.
Matplotlib Figures Inside Inkscape
Generate matplotlib figures directly within Inkscape — write the plotting code, get an editable vector figure on your canvas, no export-import round trips.
Mermaid Diagrams in Inkscape
Write Mermaid code, get an editable flowchart on your Inkscape canvas — text-to-diagram meets vector finishing.
Poster Utilities for Inkscape
Generate academic poster headers and structural elements directly in Inkscape — title bands, author blocks, and layout scaffolding in seconds.
TikZ Drawing in Inkscape
Configuration to draw with TikZ inside Inkscape via the TexText extension — LaTeX-native graphics with vector-canvas ergonomics.