Writing

Write is the drafting surface at /write. One draft, one outline (shared with Plan), and a markdown editor with the library and your filed research at hand.

The address carries the draft (?d=), section (?n=), scope (node or subtree) and which panel is open (research or plan).

The layout

Part	What it holds
Draft picker + binder	Move through the outline while you write.
Editor	Markdown with live preview or source mode; autosave.
Research panel	Contextual passages, plan pins, filed research, Ask — or the Plan tab.

Below about 1300px width the research panel moves behind a Research button in the editor toolbar.

The binder

One line per section: title, status, word count, pin count, and whether it is included in the compiled draft. Enter on a row selects that section for editing (unlike Plan, where Enter creates a section).

The row menu can split a section at each # heading, include or exclude a section from the draft, move or delete it. Deleting a section removes its prose — there is no undo.

The editor

Scope: This section or With subsections — both are editable; scope controls how much prose is loaded into the buffer at once.
Mode: Live (rendered preview) or Source (raw markdown).
Section header: edit title and synopsis for the focused section.
Formatting toolbar for common markdown.
Conflict banner if the same section changed elsewhere — keep yours or take the other copy.

Citations and mentions

Type @ (after two or more characters) to search:

Works — insert a citation
Your highlights — insert a quotation with attribution
Summaries — link to a Research document

The Quote and Insert buttons in the research panel use the same grammar.

Type / for structure (headings, lists, blockquote, table, code) and figures (timeline, comparison table, map, interactive HTML, document block). With writing context, the menu can also surface works and passages related to what you are typing.

Research panel

The Research tab shows what bears on the section you are in. It turns to a new section or a selected phrase at once. While you write it holds still, and catches up when you pause or press Look this up:

From this section — plan notes and pinned works from Plan
From your annotations
From your research — filed documents
From your earlier work — answers you have had from Ask, what Analyse read in the works in play, and notes and pins from other sections of the plan. Each opens where it was made and inserts at the caret
From your wider library — related passages
Ask at the bottom — question-and-answer with insert at the caret

All of this comes from your plan, your annotations and the library’s index. Writing in a draft never calls a model. Two buttons at the foot of the panel do, when you press them: Read more widely has a model read the passage and choose what belongs beside it, and Summarise these writes a paragraph for each band, with the passages still expandable behind it. Both count against your daily model allowance.

When the caret sits inside a citation, the panel shows that work’s synopsis and notes. Inside a figure fence, it opens the figure editor.

The Plan tab shows the whole outline with synopsis, notes and pins; click a section title to jump the editor, or Edit in Plan to change structure.

Figures

Insert via the / menu. Edit in the research panel when the caret is inside the fence. Save writes the fence back to the draft.

Checkpoints and citations

The status bar shows autosave state and the current version number. Save a version is a deliberate checkpoint, separate from continuous save.

At the foot of the Research tab, Cited in this draft lists works with citation counts. Choose a citation style, then Update citations to restyle every citation in the draft. You can Add a bibliography at the end.

Word files

A draft’s page in Research has Download as Word, which saves the draft as it currently reads as a .docx. To start a draft from a Word, OpenDocument, EPUB or Markdown file, open it in the library’s reader and choose Make a draft. The new draft cites the item it came from.

Planning — outline, pins and read beside the tree
Research — summaries and answers filed before you draft
The web client — library, reader and item tabs