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What would a bullet journal look like if you designed it specifically for doing a PhD?In this episode, Inger and Jason crack open a brand-new bullet journal and build one from scratch. 
Jason tries to narrate as we go, but this one is probably a lot more enjoyable on Youtube, where you can see what we are doing... watch it here
They cover the basics — daily logs, monthly spreads, collections, indexing and threading — then start adding tools specifically for researchers.
Along the way they explore concept maps, the “bedraggled daisy” for finding your research niche, reading metadata, supervision notes, tracking academic service and expenses, and creating a master index across years of notebooks.
They also get distracted by AI and learning, supervision calendars, stickers, small dogs, Rococo ladies and the surprisingly important question of whether fleas explain the invention of the lapdog.
Links and things mentioned in this episode:
The official Bullet Journal website
Kirsten Luker — Salsa Dancing into the Social Sciences
Writing Partners / Shut Up & Write
Isabel’s guide to DOIs
Zenodo
Yap: A Short History of Small Dogs
Latte’s Instagram: @coton_lattemewburn
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We’re back! Sort of. Monthly-ish. Regular-ish. With a puppy.
In this episode of On the Reg, Inger introduces Latte Sipping Socialist, her new desk dog and emerging productivity expert. Meanwhile Jason has actually been working and explains how ClickUp has become his work gravity well.
Then we open the mailbag to discuss:
• building a note-taking system when ADHD and object permanence are working against you
• combining bullet journals with Zotero, Obsidian and NotebookLM
• managing complex or collaborative research projects
• Bullet Journal nerdery 
• Typst as a possible plain-text academic writing tool
• cheaper ways to record and edit video
• why Monday is obviously the first day of the week
Our major work problem is the vexed issue of AI in doctoral education.
Should universities restrict generative AI so students still learn the foundational practices of thinking and writing? Or do bans simply drive AI use underground, without guidance or education?
We discuss AI dependency, inconsistent policies, writing as thinking, assessment reform, oral examinations, the future of the dissertation and whether academic writing may become the intellectual equivalent of artisanal stonemasonry.
There are no easy answers. There is, however, a small brown-and-white dog who looks suspiciously AI-generated...
Things we mention:
Visit Tiny Latte on Instagram @coton_lattemewburn
Download Jason's notes on Claude integration in Clickup
Curtis McHale’s website
Typist website
OBS: Alternative to Riverside: https://obsproject.com
Davinci resolve studio 
Rectangle Window management (for mac and windows): https://rectangleapp.com/
A system for writing by Dotto
Rooster TV show on HBO
The P In PhD doesn't stand for Prompt
BuJo sticker shop 
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Inger has A Lot Going On At The Moment - and has the tshirt to prove it. Jason's been Getting Things Done, even if his fridge broke. Things have been better in OTR land, but an episode was finally recorded!
There's a lot of chat in this one because the mail bag was, as usual, excellent. 
In the work problems segment Inger plugs the new book she's written with Pat Thomson, Helen Kara and Aimee Grant... While the title is boring and the cover is ugly, she thinks the book is actually great.
Rebecca sent us in a two minute tip and it's great! You'll have to listen to the end to hear it.
Things we mentioned:
Inger's Taylor Swift coded tshirt
OTRT home page (to see our new logo)
QPR conference (we're having a booth!)
The new book "Managing your research project"
Indyx App (Inger's wardrobe organisation app)
Inger's expensive boots
And her expensive leather jacket comes from Leatheron
Inger's eBay page
First edition of How To Fix your Academic Writing Trouble (2nd edition out November this year)
Hazel for the Mac
Example of a patched in ChatGPT image on Inger's Instagram
The Boring Conference
Sneeze Count paper
A historian's take on LLMs

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Vote on Jason's wardrobe edit here
(If you want to see Jason's beard, Inger's Pinterest boards and the AI video Inger made to demonstrate Jason's fashion style, jump over there and have a look!)
In this episode we discuss Inger's fascination with fashion youtube influencers and what we can learn for planning out the academic / researcher / enterprenerd year.
Things we mentioned
Inger uses the MiGoals journal in addition to a regular Bullet Journal
Working 9 to 5 not a way to make an academic living (Inger's most downloaded academic paper)
Blog post: Thesis Prison
Book: Tiny Experiments
Nest Labs article on Note Takers
App: Obsidian  and how to back up Obsidian using GitHub
Gazman (for the style challenged young man who needs to update their wardrobe for work)
Alison Bornstein Internet Personality
SUK workwear
Inger's Pinterest Boards
Claudia Winkelman
Jason's wardrobe edit questionnaire
Book: Wear it Well by Alison Bornstein
Narelle Lemon
Book: Objective Secure
Book: Measure what matters
Book: Building a second brain
Kane Murdoch Blog
Shout out to Erin from Good Prose Studios for book editing
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Hey! Jason will be in the UK in Late April. If you'd like to chat to him about the trip and possibly having him visit you, email us on enquiries@ontheregteam.com
Watch this episode on YouTube
The banter section of this episode is lost to history because Jason forgot to hit record! After a short intro by Inger, the team go straight into the mail bag. Let's face it, this is the good stuff anyway - who needs Tinny and puppy news?
In our work problems segment, we discuss the appearance of ChatGPT as a referrer to the Thesis Whisperer blog and what it might mean for researcher visibility. How does an LLM decide on what is an 'authoritative source' on the internet? Is this a new form of 'research impact' and what should researchers do about it, if anything?
This episode also ends abruptly when Inger gets a phone call - the next episode will be much more polished, we promise!
Things we mentioned:
Tiago Forte's PARA book
Blooms Taxonomy
Amazing Marvin app
Click up app
Be visible or vanish book
The Enshittification of Academic Social Media

Got thoughts and feel pinions? Want to ask a question? You can email us on <pod@ontheregteam.com>

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-  See our workshop catalogue on www.ontheregteam.com. You can book us via emailing Jason at enquiries@ontheregteam.com

-  Subscribe to the free, monthly Two Minute Tips newsletter here (scroll down to enter your email address)

- We're on BlueSky as @drjd and @thesiswhisperer (but don't expect to hear back from Jason, he's still mostly on a Socials break).

- Read Inger's stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. 

- If you want to support our work, you can sign up to be a 'Riding the Bus' member for just $2 a month, via our On The Reg Ko-Fi site