1. Learn to use Git, and find a way to use it for as much of your work as possible. Keep your notes in a git repository. 2. Instate some reasonable rules about

1. Learn to use Git, and find a way to use it for as much of your work as possible. Keep your notes in a git repository. 2. Instate some reasonable rules about managing data and figures, i.e. don't accidentally loose anything - I tend to get distracted easily, so I usually don't let my scripts even try and overwrite previous output. 3. Latency is awful, think about not using Overleaf for LaTeX (this depends on what kind of workflow you need) as it's quite slow. And if you do use Overleaf try to integrate it into some git workflow, it doesn't have to complicated, but PhD's are not done in a week so don't even allow any risk of getting lost in your own work a year or two down the line. 4. If your work is in any way at risk (e.g. Is your thesis - literally and figuratively - reliant on some non-fungible data?), keep backups. I also think it's probably very easy to overthink this. If we were talking about PhD "workflows" I would focus on working effectively with the people around you (and put your career in the right hands), and finding ways to incentivize yourself to do what you need to do on time (Reading your post you sound organized, so that might not be a problem). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_technology (In industry, engineering is very often the easy part compared to actually building healthy and productive companies)