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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.

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Researcher's Tool Checklist

What's Included

  • 5 sections, ~20 checkboxes
  • Opinionated defaults (Zotero, Git-from-day-one, pinned envs)
  • AI hygiene section aligned with the decision flowchart

Overview

The boring-but-correct baseline stack as a checkbox list: references, writing, code, notes, AI hygiene — audit your setup in ten minutes.

Why use it

Tool problems are usually absence problems — no reference manager, no lockfile, no backup. The checklist finds the absences fast.

How to use it

  1. Open the Markdown file anywhere (renders on GitHub, Obsidian, VS Code).
  2. Tick honestly; every unticked box is a known risk.
  3. Re-run each new project or semester.
When NOT to use this A complete checklist doesn’t mean an optimal workflow — it means no known holes. Optimise after, not instead.

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