Thesis Tracker
A private thesis tracker in one HTML file on your machine: no account, no cloud, no server to talk to.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
A thesis is not one big task; it is eleven medium ones, each pretending to be nearly done. The Thesis Tracker keeps the honest register: every chapter or milestone, its status from Not started through Drafting, With supervisor and Revising to Done, the date it is due, and a notes field for what your supervisor actually said. It will not write the thing for you, but it will stop chapter three from quietly vanishing for a month.
What it keeps
- Chapter / milestoneshort text
- Statuschoice · Not started / Drafting / With supervisor / Revising / Done
- Duedate
- Notesnotes
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (Chapter / milestone, Status, Due and Notes) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of thesis tracker entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Who else sees this
Nobody. Your Chapter / milestone, Status, Due and Notes never leave the file on your own disk. There is no account, no telemetry, no analytics, and no code in the file that opens a network connection, pull the cable and watch it carry on working. How privacy works across the Knowledge tools →
Questions people ask
How can I keep track of thesis chapters and supervisor feedback?
Give each chapter its own row, move its status along as it travels — Drafting, With supervisor, Revising, Done — and keep the feedback in the notes field where you will actually find it again. The due date sits beside each milestone so nothing sneaks up on you.
Will my thesis notes stay private, or does this upload anywhere?
Everything stays in your browser, on your machine. No account, no cloud, no server reading your half-formed arguments. The whole tracker is a single HTML file you keep, offline, forever.
Does the Thesis Tracker work for a dissertation or a long report too?
Yes. It does not care what the document is called — any long piece of writing with chapters, deadlines, and someone who reviews drafts fits the same shape.
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Fits your knife at weight 1. Nothing here is final, Knife follows Life. Reforging within your tier is free, forever. Add it, drop it, reforge it later; the file stays yours either way.