Plan a Peer-Review Resubmission Against the Real Clock — Free
Paste reviewer comments with their dates and the journal's deadline, and see how many days each response actually has left.
The proof surface
Reviewer severity and remaining days are different axes. The strip keeps both visible so the urgent minor comments stop hiding behind the interesting major one.
Why the flat version breaks
Severity-first ordering
The longest comment usually has slack; the two-word minor comment on the same clock can block submission at the end of the window.
Undated comment lists
Without the decision date there is no clock at all, and a 28-day window looks the same as a 90-day one.
Drafting the letter last
The response letter is a deliverable with its own writing time, and it is the piece most often left until after the experiments finish.
How to work the resubmission strip
Reviewer tag, severity word, one line of substance and the date; the strip keeps your phrasing.
The window is printed from your own decision letter — the strip does not look up journal policy.
Segments with the shortest remaining clock are marked hot; the row beneath prints the days left for each comment.
Copy the state link so every author sees the same clock and the same order before anybody starts rewriting.
What the strip replaces
| Decision | Without the strip | With the strip |
|---|---|---|
| Order of work | tackle the biggest comment first | clock order printed per comment |
| Co-author handover | summarise in an email | state link reopens the same comments |
| Progress check | count replies in a document | days remaining shown on every row |
The strip never edits your response letter; it orders the work and prints the days, leaving the argument to you.
Run it on the samples, right here
FIRST-LOAD
Data note: Comments and dates stay in this browser tab; no manuscript, review or journal data leaves the device.
Go deeper: the companion app files the same reading as a paper ticker strip
The article demo above runs without limits. The companion app keeps a local history, exports the rows as CSV, prints the ready-to-mail packet, and holds your drafts on this device — one free run, then $ 7 one-time for the layer that keeps filing.
The strip and the per-comment day counts are free. The paid layer prints the response plan and keeps the reviewer record for the next round.
Open the resubmission strip companionBoundary
This strip orders work by the dates you supply; it does not read your manuscript, judge a reviewer's point, or know the journal's real deadline. Extension decisions belong to the editor, and a missed internal date is not a missed journal date. Confirm the window in the decision letter before you plan around it.
What this is built on
- Dates and windows are the reader's own; no journal policy is asserted.
- Where a comment carries no date, the strip uses the decision date and says so on the row.
- Day counts are plain calendar arithmetic; extensions granted by an editor are not modelled.
Before: the reader worked through the longest comment first. After: they can see two minor comments sit on the shortest deadlines and should go out first.