Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.
iA Writer: The Benchmark of Markdown Writing Apps
Plain text. Total focus. The Industry standard Markdown text editor. Available for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Windows. Download it now, try it for free
Authorea: multi-disciplinary research preprints
Authorea is the leading collaborative platform to read, write, and publish research.
Andy Matuschak
I'm an applied researcher, focused on creating user interfaces that expand what people can think and do. My current focus is an augmented book which actively helps people understand, remember, and use what they read.
Creative Reading: Scaffolding Reading for Transformation
Reading augmentation systems increasingly help readers process text at scale. While these tools address real constraints of time and cognitive load, they often implicitly frame reading as...
Publishing apps | at-store
Writing, newsletters, blogging, and reader-growth tools built to help creators publish on the open web and keep direct relationships with their audience.
Sublime Text - the sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose
Available on Mac, Windows and Linux
FocusWriter
FocusWriter is a distraction-free text editor for Microsoft Windows and Linux. An old version (1.7.6) still can be used on MacOS.
Readwise Reader: The first read-it-later app built for power readers.
Save everything to one place to overcome content overload, search instantly, and highlight like a pro.
Ishmael — a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac
Ishmael is a distraction-free novel-writing app for Mac — beautiful typography, typewriter and focus modes, chapter management, and export to Word, EPUB, HTML, and Markdown.
Scribe — Meeting notes that never leave your Mac
Scribe records, transcribes and summarises your meetings on your Mac. Free and open source.
Craft — Productivity App for Notes, Tasks, and Docs
A free notes and productivity app that follows you across all your devices. Premium features available.
Direct manipulation vs. interface agents
As part of the Digital Library's transition to Open Access, new features for researchers are available in the Premium Edition. Click here to learn more.
Textoshop: Interactions Inspired by Drawing Software to Facilitate Text Editing
You can now use TextExpander for free across Mac, iPhone, iPad, and more
TextExpander now offers a free plan, letting users access its core Snippets feature on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and Chrome. Here are the details.
Scratch – A minimalist markdown scratchpad
An offline-first, open source markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no subscriptions.
