Cursor for researchers and serious writers.
A local-first agentic IDE for papers, code, and long-form writing.
Built for people who write from PDFs, notes, and bibliographies.
PDFs and citations, not just notes.
Import papers, resolve DOIs and ISBNs, keep a reference library beside your draft. Companion PDFs stay in sync with your markdown. Wikilinks, backlinks, and citation nodes grow from the work itself.
AI inside the manuscript.
Run scoped LLM annotations and threads on the passage in front of you. Keep results as editable companion annotations. The agent comes to the document - not a chat tab that forgets your sources.
Plain files. Export for the real world.
Markdown, bibliography, and attachments live in ordinary folders. No proprietary prison. Ship LaTeX, PDF, DOCX, or HTML through pandoc when the draft has to leave your machine.
The loop
- Collect Drop in PDFs, fetch metadata, build the reference library.
- Think Annotate, link, question, and talk to AI on scoped passages.
- Draft & export Write the manuscript in markdown; export to LaTeX, PDF, or DOCX.
Research writing deserves an environment as serious as an IDE.
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