Folio Writer

The writing studio for scholarly manuscripts. Scrivener-style binder over plain Markdown/Typst files. Cite from BibTeX/Zotero, compile to PDF/Word/LaTeX.

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Folio Writer 1.8.6 is out on Mac. 🎉

🕸 Your manuscript as a live graph — wikilinks & #tags on one map
🔎 Cite by author, year, or title — not just the key
📋 Paste spreadsheet cells as aligned tables
📦 One-pass submission package: PDF + Word + source

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Option-click the Preview button to pop the rendered preview into its own window — keep writing in one pane and watch the output update live in the other.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Save a search as a collection once, then jump back to it anytime instead of retyping the same query.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Pin your most-used names and hide the rest — your Name Index stays exactly how you left it, on every device.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Your project is just a folder of plain files — sync it through iCloud or Dropbox and it's conflict-safe on every device.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Anchor comments to any passage, then build a full response-to-reviewers letter straight from them.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Type a grid table and it self-aligns as you type; drop in $math$ and see it typeset live with KaTeX.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Bold, italic, ==highlight==, ~~strikethrough~~ — it's all plain Markdown, styled live as you type.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Propose a change instead of making one — every suggestion keeps its author's name, shown as a diff to accept or reject.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Export tracked changes as a real .docx, then Import Review to bring your co-author's edits back as proposals.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Turn on Track Changes, edit freely, then hit Show My Edits to review every change as an accept/reject diff.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Starting a paper? Open a journal template — Elsevier, IEEE, Tufte, or an NSF proposal — pre-built and ready to write in.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Set a word target for a session, a document, or the whole draft, and watch your progress bar fill as you write.

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Folio Writer + @quarto: Drop a plotting script in your Research folder and the figure updates live as the data changes. 📊 Edit the code, save, and watch the chart re-render right in your manuscript — no exporting, no copy-pasting images.

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Folio Writer update: Drag & drop is here. 🖱️ Grab any card in Corkboard or Outline and drop it onto a new status or workflow label — no menus, no clicks, just drop it where it belongs. Organizing your manuscript just got a lot faster.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Switch to Corkboard to see every section as an index card — drag to reorder your whole manuscript at a glance.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Turn on Composition for a distraction-free room with typewriter scrolling and sentence focus — just you and the page.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Type [[ to link to any document or note by title — Folio autocompletes as you type, no manual searching.

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#FolioWriter Mac Tip of the Day: Take a Snapshot before a heavy edit — compare versions and roll back anytime. Nothing you write is ever lost for good.

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Folio Writer 1.7 is out on Mac & iOS. 🎉

🏷️ Name Index, saved searches & workflow labels now sync everywhere
📐 Tufte template now handles real-world metadata cleanly

Still the same @scrivenerapp-style binder, compiling through @pandoc, @quarto & @latex.