Interactive Thesis & Dissertation Chapter Dashboard — PhD Progress Tracker with Defense Countdown and Committee Tracker

Stop losing chapters in spreadsheet chaos. This Interactive Thesis Dashboard gives PhD candidates one organized command center for every stage from proposal to defense day.

Track all 5-8 of your chapters, log advisor feedback chapter-by-chapter, and watch a live countdown tick toward your defense date. No more context-switching between Notion, Google Sheets, and sticky notes.

★ EXCLUSIVE ZONE — The Defense Countdown + Chapter Cascade no other Etsy product has:
Your defense date lives at the center of everything. A visual chapter cascade shows exactly which chapters are waiting on feedback, which need revision, and which are cleared — all synced to your actual defense timeline. Pair it with the per-chapter advisor feedback tracker and spaced literature review schedule, and you have the only PhD productivity tool built around how thesis writing actually works: not in straight lines, but in overlapping cycles of draft, feedback, revise, and defend.

WHAT'S INSIDE (5 interactive tabs):

1. Dissertation Timeline — Your full PhD roadmap from proposal approval to final submission, with milestone markers and an auto-updating defense countdown.
2. Chapter Status — All your chapters on one screen. Per-chapter progress bars, current status badge (Drafting / In Review / Revisions / Cleared), and advisor notes field.
3. Deadline Cascade — Visual timeline of every chapter deadline, committee meeting, and submission window, sorted by urgency so nothing slips.
4. Literature Synthesis — Spaced-review schedule for your literature sources, organized by chapter and flagged by review-due date. Built for the citation overwhelm that stalls every PhD student.
5. Committee Tracker — Log feedback from each committee member, track response-due dates, and mark revision status — so the next meeting prep takes minutes, not a week.

THIS IS FOR YOU IF:
- You have 5+ chapters with different advisors in different feedback stages at the same time
- You miss deadlines because your timeline lives in three different places
- Your "thesis planner" is a Notion page you gave up on after week two
- Committee feedback gets lost in email threads and you forget which chapter it applies to
- You know your defense date but have no system connecting that date to each chapter milestone

YOUR DATA IS SAFE:
This runs entirely in your browser: Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge on Mac or PC. No login. No internet required after download. No subscription. Your data is stored only on your own computer. Export Backup creates a single JSON file you can store anywhere; Load Backup restores everything byte-for-byte.

FILES INCLUDED:
- dashboard.html (open in any browser, no install required)
- HOW-TO-SAVE.txt (plain-English guide to saving, restoring, and sharing)

Your chapter log, your defense countdown, your advisor notes: all yours, offline, forever.

If you use Notion for your thesis, this will replace three databases and a calendar. Or run them side-by-side; this dashboard exports a clean JSON you can paste anywhere.