Google- or Semantic Scholar - find sources
Zotero - collect & organise sources
You can use Zotero w/ Google Drive to avoid paying for Zotero storage
Zbib - quickly generate bibliographies from URL imports etc
Notion - note taking & knowledge mgmt (you're seeing it now!)
Obsidian or Foam or Stroll - alternatives for note taking, inspired by RoamResearch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsOWIeBhado
Grammarly and similar - write correctly and concisely
Overleaf or TeXstudio - write in LaTeX
Git / GitHub - version control (back up your work history! sync across computers! etc)
How to Write a Thesis, Umberto Eco. "First, writing a thesis should be fun. Second, writing a thesis is like cooking a pig: nothing goes to waste." — A must-read, lays out what research is and how to go about it, even if only for a few months in your life.
Principles of Effective Research
Research products, Alex Mclean. As opposed to "research prototypes" — your work, the result of practice-based research, taken for what it is, not what it might become. "not [...] a commercially viable product, but it's also not [...] a step towards one."
Teaching & Research for Students blog, Dana Jalobeanu. See the guide to assembling a bibliography, the dissertation seminar etc.
Systemic task assessment & time management post (reddit).
The oral presentation: one thing to try if you’re stuck for ideas, is to rethink the structure. Your slides (20-30 minutes) do NOT need to follow the same beats, in the same order, as the written thesis.