Grad Student Semester OS

Built for Graduate students (master’s and PhD) juggling coursework, research, TA duties, advisor meetings, and deadlines with no coherent system. Grad Student Semester OS — a browser-native interactive dashboard that lives in a single HTML file, no installation required.

The Grad Student Semester OS is an interactive browser dashboard built for master’s and PhD students who are juggling coursework, research hours, TA duties, advisor meetings, and a thesis pipeline all at once. Open one file. Get your entire semester on screen. Close the laptop knowing exactly what needs to happen tomorrow.

No subscription. No login. No Notion account. Works in Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox on any device you already own.

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★ EXCLUSIVE ZONE: The Semester Reset Generator

Tab 5 reads every course, research block, TA shift, and deadline you have logged in tabs 1 through 4, and assembles a personalized week-by-week semester brief. It tells you which weeks are your crunch weeks, which advisors you are overdue to meet, and what your single highest-leverage task is for the next 7 days. No competitor on Etsy ships this. No spreadsheet can generate it because it requires your actual logged data to produce a real output, not a template.

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WHAT’S INSIDE (5 Interactive Tabs)

1. Courses: Log every class with instructor, credits, grade weight, and office hours. The dashboard calculates your total credit load and color-codes your schedule density so you can see at a glance which weeks are already overloaded before you say yes to anything else.

2. Research: Track your active projects, lab hours, paper drafts, advisor meeting notes, and IRB status. Set weekly hour targets and watch your cumulative research hours update in real time as you log sessions. Your thesis timeline is always visible.

3. TA/Work: Manage your teaching assistant duties, grading deadlines, office hours, and section prep in one place. Log hours against your TA contract cap so you never accidentally go over and trigger an HR conversation.

4. Deadlines: A single live dashboard of every due date across all your tabs. Conferences, fellowship deadlines, paper submissions, committee meetings, and exams all surface here so nothing slips. Color-coded by urgency: due this week, due this month, later.

5. Semester Reset (★ EXCLUSIVE): The generator. Click one button and the dashboard reads your logged data to produce your personalized weekly brief: your 3 crunch weeks, your overdue advisor touch-points, and your top-priority task for the next 7 days. Export it as a markdown file to paste into your notes or share with your advisor. No competitor ships this.

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THIS IS FOR YOU IF:

• You have 4 or more active commitments this semester and your paper planner can no longer hold all of them

• You keep missing fellowship deadlines and conference submissions because they live in 6 different emails

• You want to show your advisor you have a real system, not just a stressed expression

• You track research hours manually in a spreadsheet that you forget to open

• You have never once made it to the end of a semester feeling like you were in control

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YOUR DATA IS SAFE

Everything lives in your browser’s localStorage. Nothing leaves your device. No server, no cloud, no account. Use Export Backup to save a JSON snapshot anytime. Use Load Backup to restore it on a new computer or after a browser reset. Your data is yours, forever.

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FILES INCLUDED

• dashboard.html (open in any browser, works offline)

• HOW-TO-SAVE.txt (plain-English guide for bookmarking, backing up, and moving to a new device)

Works in Chrome, Edge, Safari, Firefox. macOS, Windows, iPad, Chromebook.

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Finally own your semester instead of surviving it.

Notion template upgrade coming soon. Follow the shop to get notified.

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