Education & Research Tools
Fifteen tools for students and researchers: plan study and revision, make flashcards and quizzes from your notes, format and de-duplicate references, look up DOIs, choose a statistical test and size a study.
About these tools
The study tools turn your own material into structure - timetables, revision plans, flashcards, quizzes and outlines - by documented rules, not by generating text for you. The research tools cover the parts of a project that are easy to get wrong under deadline: reference formatting, duplicate records across databases, framing the question, and choosing a test and a sample size you can defend.
Everything except the DOI lookup runs in your browser. The DOI lookup sends only the identifier to the public Crossref or DataCite API and shows exactly what came back. The statistics calculators state their formulas and assumptions, and none of them can tell you whether your study design is right - that remains a judgement for you and your supervisor.
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All Education & Research Tools
- Study Timetable Planner Build a weekly study timetable from your subjects, their priority and difficulty, and the hours you are actually free, with breaks, balanced rotation and a printable or calendar-file result.
- Exam Revision Planner Plan revision backwards from your exam dates: topics per exam, confidence ratings, spaced review sessions, rest days and a daily checklist that shows whether the plan fits the time left.
- Flashcard Maker Make flashcards from pasted term-definition pairs or CSV, study them with a Leitner spaced-repetition box, print cut-out cards, and export to CSV or Anki-compatible text - all in your browser.
- Quiz Generator from Text Turn your own notes into a practice quiz: fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice and true/false questions built by transparent rules from key terms in your text, with an answer key and print view.
- Citation Formatter Format references in APA 7, MLA 9, Chicago author-date, Harvard and IEEE from fields or BibTeX/RIS, with name inversion, et al. rules, sorting and copy-ready HTML or plain text.
- DOI Metadata Lookup Look up a DOI's public metadata - title, authors, journal, dates, licence and funders - from Crossref or DataCite, and export it as BibTeX, RIS or a formatted reference.
- Bibliography Deduplicator Find duplicate references in BibTeX or RIS exports by DOI, normalised title, year and first author, review each cluster, choose the record to keep, and export a clean library.
- Literature Review Matrix Builder Build a literature review synthesis matrix: sources as rows, your themes, methods, samples and findings as columns, with tagging, filtering, theme coverage counts and CSV or print export.
- Research Question Builder Frame a research question with PICO, PICOT, PEO or SPIDER: guided fields, assembled question variants, a FINER checklist and search-string terms for each element.
- Hypothesis Test Selector Answer a few questions about your outcome, groups, pairing and assumptions to find a suitable statistical test - t-test, ANOVA, chi-square, Mann-Whitney and more - with the reasoning and assumptions to check.
- Statistical Power Calculator Run a power analysis for t-tests, two proportions, correlation and one-way ANOVA: solve for sample size, power or detectable effect size, with Cohen's conventions and a power curve.
- Research Sample Size Calculator Calculate the sample size a survey or study needs to estimate a proportion or a mean, with confidence level, margin of error, finite population correction and the invitations needed at your expected response rate.
- Readability Score Analyzer Score text with six readability formulas - Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau and ARI - see the counts behind each, and find the sentences dragging the score.
- Academic Reading Time Calculator Estimate how long a reading list will take by pages or word count, text difficulty and purpose - skim, understand or study closely - and spread it across the days you have.
- Lecture Notes Outline Builder Turn raw lecture notes or a transcript into a structured outline or Cornell-style notes: detected headings, numbered points, key terms and a summary box you complete, exported as Markdown, DOCX-ready text or print.
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