For PhD and masters researchers
Stop spending hours hunting for the note you wrote months ago.
GradDesk keeps every source, class note, idea and document from your degree in one searchable place, so you find what you need in seconds and get your time back for the work that actually matters.
30 days free, cancel any time. A study tool, not medical, psychological or academic advice.
The research is hard enough. Finding it again should not be.
A four-year degree produces thousands of pages of reading and notes. Scattered across folders and notebooks, that work quietly turns into a search problem, and every hour spent looking is an hour not spent thinking, writing or resting.
Hours lost to searching
You know you read that perfect quote. Now you are four hours deep in old files trying to find it again.
Everything lives everywhere
Notebooks, laptop folders, twenty browser tabs, class slides and a phone full of half-written ideas.
Good thinking disappears
The insight you had months ago never makes it into your writing, because you cannot remember where you put it.
One desk, three simple steps
Built by a doctoral researcher for the way graduate work really happens: messy input now, perfect recall later.
1. Put it in
Paste an article, dump a messy thought, upload a paper or slide deck, or type your class notes. It gets tagged and dated for you.
2. Ask for it later
Ask in plain language, the way you would ask a colleague. You get the answer with citations back to your own sources.
3. Write with it
Pull APA 7 citations, check your grammar and argument, and export one organized document when it is time to write.
Without a system
- Hours a week lost re-finding sources you already read.
- Citations rebuilt from scratch at midnight before a deadline.
- Strong ideas forgotten because they were never written down anywhere findable.
- The dread of starting the dissertation with notes in six places.
With GradDesk
- Any quote, note or paper found in seconds, by topic or by date.
- APA 7 citations ready the moment you save a source.
- Every idea captured, tagged and waiting for you when you write.
- One organized document to export whenever you want it.
What is on your desk
Source library
Paste a whole article and get clean APA 7 metadata, a summary and a saved link, searchable forever.
Atomic takeaways
One idea per note, tagged by topic and date, with bold, underline and highlight for what matters.
Ask your own library
An assistant that answers only from your sources, notes and uploaded papers, with citations.
Weekly planner
Seven day columns you can type straight into, plus a month preview for what is coming.
Documents by class
Upload papers and slide decks by course and semester; the text is indexed so you can search inside them.
Daily encouragement
A quote, a research-backed wellbeing lift and one of your own takeaways, every time you open it.
One simple plan
$39/month
30-day free trial, cancel any time.
- Unlimited sources, notes and takeaways
- AI assistant over your own library
- Document and slide uploads with search
- APA 7 citation builder and writing check
- Weekly planner and daily encouragement
- Export everything, any time
Questions
Is my research private?
Yes. Every account is separated at the database level, so nobody else can see your sources, notes or documents.
Can I get my work out?
Any time. Export builds one organized document with all your sources, notes and dissertation planning, plus a raw data file.
Does it write my dissertation for me?
No. It answers from your own library with citations, checks your grammar and argument, and keeps your thinking organized.