Thesis Flow — PhD Writing Tracker

A distraction-free new tab dashboard to track daily writing, chapter progress, and milestones for your PhD thesis.

A distraction-free new tab dashboard to track daily writing, chapter progress, and milestones for your PhD thesis. Every time you open a new tab in Chrome, ThesisFlow shows you: today's word count vs. your daily goal, your chapter progress bars, a streak counter, a Pomodoro timer, and a virtual writing-pet that grows as you write. Everything is stored locally on your device. No accounts, no servers, no analytics, no telemetry. Open DevTools, go to Application → Local Storage, and your data is right there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT'S NEW IN v0.3.8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A critical bug fix for the writing log. • Word count was not being saved. Newly added words appeared in the "today" counter but vanished on the next page load (or when a new tab was opened). Now your entries persist correctly across page refreshes and new-tab opens. • The same bug also affected Notes. Saved notes silently disappeared on refresh. They are now persisted under the correct storage key. • Bonus: cross-tab sync. When one tab writes to the log, every other open ThesisFlow tab picks up the change and re-renders. No more stale counters in the background tab. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Daily word-count tracker with goal progress bar • Multi-chapter project support with per-chapter targets • Streak counter (current and longest) • Pomodoro timer with break reminders • Gamified virtual pet that hatches and evolves as you write • Achievements and milestone celebrations • Customisable themes (light, dark, auto) • CSV export of your full writing log • Encrypted local backup / restore ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DESTRESS MODAL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Take a short break with memes from PhD Comics, XKCD, SMBC, and BioMedicalical Comics — or add your own RSS / Atom feed. You can also enable short YouTube video breaks from three curated channels. All embeds use the privacy-enhanced youtube-nocookie.com domain; no cookies are set until you press play. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PRIVACY ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 100% local storage via chrome.storage.local • No third-party analytics or tracking • No accounts or sign-in • The only network requests are: optional RSS feed fetches (only for feeds you explicitly add), and the Destress meme sources (you can disable any of them in Settings) • Custom RSS fetches use credentials:'omit' — no cookies are sent to feed hosts • Full source-readable: open DevTools on the new tab and inspect every byte ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • storage — required to save your writing log, chapters, and settings locally • Optional host permissions (granted per-domain when you add a custom RSS feed) — required to fetch the feed you explicitly requested • chrome_url_overrides.newtab — replaces Chrome's new tab page with ThesisFlow