Manage your research projects end to end in one place
Manage theses, academic studies, fieldwork and organizational research projects with phases, tasks, owners, timelines, budgets and deliverables together.
One workspace from research design to delivery
Set up the research structure
Start from the ready-made phases for your research type, then rename, reorder, remove or add phases to match your own methodology.
Break the work into tasks
Define owners, due dates, checklists and dependencies through work packages, tasks and subtasks.
Follow progress in one place
See the same work on the board, in the list, on the calendar and on the timeline; track deliverables with milestones and the project summary.
YouReply Manage in four steps
Here is what each screen does, in order. You can try the same steps with your own project on the free plan.
Create the project with a research type
You pick the research type when creating a project, and it opens with that type's phase set and starting work packages.
- Separate phase sets for thesis, academic, survey and fieldwork, qualitative and market research
- Columns, labels and phases are reused through a project template
- A readable task key (RES-101) appears on every task
Fill in the brief
The frame of the research lives inside the project: the problem, goal, research questions, method, audience, sample and planned dates.
- Planned and actual dates and budget fields side by side
- The research phase is tracked independently of task status
- Phases can be renamed or reordered per project
Run the work through the views
Drag and drop on the board, edit in bulk in the list, change dates on the calendar, follow dependencies on the timeline.
- Work packages, tasks, subtasks and checklists
- Blocks, relates to and duplicates links, with violated links flagged
- Critical path highlighting and a separate lane for undated work
Share the state with your team
The project summary separates today's state from change over time, and the viewer role gives a supervisor or stakeholder read-only access.
- Status breakdown, priority, team workload and work package progress
- Completion trend plus opened versus closed work
- Field-by-field change history and comments on tasks
We describe the steps rather than showing screenshots. To see the product with your own data, open a free account or ask for a demo.
Built for different research projects
YouReply Manage does not carry out the research; it manages the research process.
Qualitative and mixed-methods research
Interview plans, focus group schedules, document collection, coding work and findings writing stay in one research plan.
Comparison
How this differs from general project management tools
The planning side is familiar; the difference is that research-specific fields are built in.
Research phases
- General project management tools
- Built by hand with custom fields, labels or extra columns
- YouReply Manage
- A ready phase set per research type; the phase is a field separate from task status
Research brief
- General project management tools
- Kept in a separate document
- YouReply Manage
- Structured fields in the project: problem, goal, questions, method, audience, sample
Planned versus actual
- General project management tools
- Needs an add-on or custom fields
- YouReply Manage
- Planned and actual dates and budget fields inside the brief
Views
- General project management tools
- Board, list and calendar are usually available
- YouReply Manage
- Board, planned work, list, calendar, timeline and milestones over the same data
Supervisor and stakeholder access
- General project management tools
- Varies by tool and plan
- YouReply Manage
- The viewer role cannot change anything; permissions are enforced on the server
Fieldwork progress and quotas
- General project management tools
- Tracked in separate spreadsheets
- YouReply Manage
- Inside the project through the YouReply field campaign connection, which is in development
The table describes the out-of-the-box setup of general purpose tools, not a specific product. A similar structure can be built there with custom fields and add-ons; the difference is who has to build it.
Manage the whole of the research, not just the tasks
How it works, how we look after your data and what it costs, each on its own page.
Try it with one of your research projects
The free plan gives you two active projects. No credit card required.