Every manuscript trackedfrom idea to publication.
Papertrek puts your whole pipeline on one page: where each paper stands, which revision is due, what the reviewers said. Imported from ORCID, kept current by Crossref.
Field demonstration
The route below is live — click any waypoint, or log the next step from the card.
Five more manuscripts on the route — the small marks hold their stations.
See it in action
Under two minutes with a sample pipeline: import from ORCID, log a decision, get reminded before a deadline, and share a read-only link with your supervisor.
With sound · captions available · the researcher and the papers are fictional
A spreadsheet stores deadlines. It doesn’t chase them.
Most pipelines live in a spreadsheet, a Notion page, or someone’s memory. That works until you’re juggling six papers, two are under review, one revision lands next week, and nobody is sure whether the journal ever wrote back. Papertrek keeps all of it in view and speaks up before a deadline lands, not after.
Three steps, then it keeps itself.
Import your work
Connect ORCID or drop a BibTeX file. Your record arrives in seconds; nobody retypes metadata.
Walk each paper along
Move manuscripts through the stages; log submissions, revision rounds and reviewer notes as they happen.
Never miss a deadline
The deadline a revision gives you and the ones you set yourself show up on your board, with enough lead time to finish.
Built for the submission lifecycle
One clear route
Idea, draft, review, revision, published: you see every paper’s station. A preprint and its journal version count as two outcomes of one work.
Deadlines that find you
The deadline a decision sets and the ones you add yourself, counting down on your board, by email and in a calendar feed.
The full paper trail
Every submission and revision round, with reviewer notes, cover letters and decisions, on one timeline per paper.
Import, not data entry
ORCID and BibTeX in; DOIs filled from Crossref; new work on your record syncs in by itself.
Co-authors on record
Every author recorded per manuscript, plus a ranked shortlist of target journals. Invite your co-authors to follow a manuscript on their own board, read-only.
Your record, your data
Hosted in the EU, yours to export at any time. A clean public publication list comes out of the same data.
Why not a spreadsheet?
| Tool | Keeps track of | Goes quiet on |
|---|---|---|
| Spreadsheet / Notion | Whatever you remember to type | Deadlines. It breaks as it grows. |
| Zotero / Mendeley | The papers you read | The papers you’re writing |
| ORCID / Google Scholar | What’s already published | Everything still in the pipeline |
| Papertrek the one place | Work in progress, idea to in print | — |
Support the project
Free. Supported by the people who use it.
Papertrek is free: every feature, every manuscript, no card, no trial clock. One researcher runs it, and it is meant to stay free for anyone who cannot or does not want to pay. If it saves you time and you can spare something, you can leave a tip. A tip keeps the server running and changes nothing about your account.
Beta until v1.0 in January 2027. The label means you may still meet a rough edge, and that Marian reads every report. It does not mean the price changes. Should that ever have to happen, you would hear about it months ahead, and nothing you entered would be lost.
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Questions
Is my data private?
Yes. Papertrek is hosted in the EU, and you can export or delete everything yourself at any time.
Do I have to enter everything by hand?
No. Import your record from ORCID or a BibTeX file, fill metadata from a DOI via Crossref with one click, and new papers on your ORCID record sync in by themselves.
Which fields does it cover?
Any: journal articles, conference papers, preprints, book chapters. Journal-based and conference-based workflows both fit.
Can co-authors see a paper?
Yes. Record co-authors on every manuscript, and invite them with a private link to follow it on their own board, read-only: stage, submissions, decisions and revision deadlines as you log them, never your notes or files. You see who joined and can remove anyone. A public read-only page for any work is there too.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Papertrek is free, and it is meant to stay free for anyone who cannot or does not want to pay. If it saves you time, you can leave a tip on the support page; a tip changes nothing about your account. The beta label ends with v1.0 in January 2027, the price does not.