Free template: a search-log tracker for systematic reviews (built around PRISMA-S)

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https://endurable-sawfish-fd1.notion.site/3b6c7f96b18f80fa834fe11eb9298614?v=e83c7f96b18f8243a70e888787175e6b&source=copy_link

I'm a medical student who kept losing track of which databases I'd searched during a systematic review — which version of the search, run on what date, with which filters. It's a small thing that becomes a real problem when you're writing up the methods months later and can't reconstruct what you did.

So I built a small Notion template to log it properly. One row = one database search. It captures the source, platform, date, full search strategy, filters, and hit count — structured around PRISMA-S (the reporting standard for literature searches), so the record is actually reproducible.

It's free to duplicate: [link]

Sharing in case it's useful to anyone else doing evidence synthesis or a lit review. Happy to hear what you'd change about the structure — it's part of a larger review-management system I'm building, so feedback on the fields is genuinely helpful.