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How to write, cite, review and export with Videmak.

Getting started

New document: Start blank, from a template (literature review, research proposal, essay) or open a Word file. Formatting, comments and tracked changes come with it.
Saving: Everything saves as you type. File › Version history shows earlier versions; name one or restore it.
Sharing: Share invites people by email as editors, commenters or viewers, or turns on a link.

Autocomplete: Turn it on in the toolbar. Pause at the end of a paragraph and grey text appears with sources. Tab accepts, Refine asks again, Conclude writes a closing sentence and the next heading.
AI suggest and Cite: The small bar at the cursor writes from exactly there, or opens citation search.
Autocomplete sources: The arrow next to Autocomplete: web or Library papers, a folder of your Library, publication years, citation counts, preprints.
Write with AI: In the side rail or the AI menu. Give a topic and choose papers, your Library or both; it drafts the document section by section with citations, and you accept each part.
A paragraph: Hover a paragraph and use ✦: edit with AI, find citations for it, ask about it, review or comment.

Cite: Type @ or use Cite in the toolbar, then search your Library and published papers. The reference list builds itself under References.
Style: Pick the style in the status bar (APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, IEEE, Vancouver and more); every citation and reference updates. All styles
A citation: Click it to open the paper, save it to your Library, switch to Author (Year) or edit it.

Library: Upload PDFs and keep them in collections. Cite them, or Ask to chat about one.
Find papers: Search scholarly papers with year, citation and open-access filters. Cite into your document or save to your Library.
AI Chat: Answers cite real papers. Choose Web, Library and Document as sources, and add context with @.

Checks: Claim check, peer review, source quality, proofread and tone, on the whole document or a selection.
Changes: Proofread and claim fixes can be shown as tracked changes in the text. Accept or reject them one by one or all at once.
Comments: Select text and add a comment (Ctrl+Alt+M). Reply, resolve or delete in the Comments panel.

Word: File › Download Word gives a .docx for Microsoft Word with headings, footnotes, comments, tracked changes, equations, tables and images.
PDF: File › Download PDF. Page size, margins, running head and page numbers come from File › Page setup.
LaTeX: File › Download LaTeX gives a zip for Overleaf: main.tex, references.bib and figures.

On a Mac, use ⌘ for Ctrl and ⌥ for Alt.

Videmak is open source under the MIT licence. Citation formatting powered by citeproc-js; other credits are in the NOTICE file.