Dock Editor
How to write, cite, and publish with the Dock Editor. A document workspace with real citations, AI that waits for your approval, voice dictation, and export to Word, PDF, and Markdown.
The Dock Editor is a document workspace for serious writing: research papers, essays, reports, and articles. It pairs a clean writing surface with real citations, AI suggestions you approve before they enter the page, voice dictation, track changes, and export to the formats your work has to land in.
Every feature on this page is in the shipped editor. Start writing for free at Start Writing Free, or read the guides below to learn a specific feature.
Editor Overview
A tour of the writing surface: sidebar, toolbar, footer, and the panels that slide in from the right.
Take the tour →Citations
Insert verified sources in seven styles, search academic databases, and switch the whole paper between styles in one move.
Cite your sources →AI Actions
Improve, rewrite, expand, or shorten a passage. Every suggestion waits for you to accept it.
Write with AI →Voice Mode
Speak instead of type. Dock turns what you say into clean prose and offers a few versions to choose from.
Write by voice →- Editor Overview
- Creating and Organizing Documents
- Formatting Text
- Tables
- Math Equations
- Code Blocks
- Images and Media
- Slash Commands
Account and Billing
Plans and billing for the Dock Editor. The Free and Unlimited plans, payment methods, invoices, switching plans, and cancellation.
AI Actions
Run AI actions on a selection in the Dock Editor. Improve, rewrite, expand, shorten, summarize, and custom prompts, all reviewed in the AI panel before they enter the document.
AI Autocomplete
Inline AI suggestions in the Dock Editor. How autocomplete works, accepting with Tab, the settings for length, tone, and citation awareness, and continuing in a voice you save.
Bibliography
Auto-generate a bibliography in the Dock Editor from the citations in your document, formatted to your chosen style, in numbered or author-date order.
Citation Library
Save and organize sources in the Dock Editor. Build a personal citation library, group sources into collections, deduplicate, and add sources by PDF upload and extraction.
Citations
Insert verified citations in the Dock Editor. Add a source by DOI or search, format in seven citation styles, and switch the whole document between styles in one move.
Code Blocks
Add code blocks to a document in the Dock Editor. Syntax highlighting, the language banner, and the languages supported by the highlighter.
Creating and Organizing Documents
Create new documents, organize them into folders with colors and icons, and duplicate, move, or delete drafts in the Dock Editor.
Formatting Text
Bold, italic, headings, lists, alignment, color, highlight, superscript and subscript, links, and horizontal rules in the Dock Editor.
Images and Media
Add images and media to a document in the Dock Editor. Upload and resize images, embed by URL, drop in a YouTube video, and drag and drop files.
Import and Export
Move documents in and out of the Dock Editor. Export to Markdown, HTML, text, Word, and PDF or copy to the clipboard, and import from a web page, a PDF, or Markdown.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Keyboard shortcuts for the Dock Editor. Voice mode, inserting a citation, autocomplete, find and replace, undo and redo, and the slash menu.
Math Equations
Write LaTeX math in the Dock Editor. Inline and block equations, KaTeX rendering, and the math editor popover for editing an equation in place.
Editor Overview
A tour of the Dock Editor interface. The document sidebar, the writing surface, the footer toolbar, and the panels that handle citations, AI, voice, and version history.
Prompt Library
Use the prompt library inside the Dock Editor. Browse thousands of prompts, search and organize them, import a prompt into a document, fill in its variables, and save your own.
Publishing
Publish a document from the Dock Editor to a shareable page. Set the SEO title and description, choose listed or unlisted, keep the page in sync with your draft, and unpublish.
Security and Privacy
How the Dock Editor handles your documents and data. Where documents are stored, how data is protected, the AI data-usage policy, and your rights to export and delete.
Settings and Preferences
Settings in the Dock Editor. Font style, autocomplete preferences, citation preferences, voice preferences, and the difference between document settings and user settings.
Slash Commands
The slash menu in the Dock Editor. Type a forward slash to insert headings, lists, tables, code, math, images, and more, with keyboard navigation.
System Requirements
What you need to run the Dock Editor. Supported browsers, a working connection, and notes on mobile and offline use.
Tables
Insert and edit tables in the Dock Editor. Add and remove rows and columns, merge cells, and use the table toolbar, context menu, and grip handles.
Track Changes
Review edits with track changes in the Dock Editor. Accept or reject changes individually or all at once, use auto-accept mode, and see who made each change and when.
Troubleshooting
Fix common issues in the Dock Editor. The editor not loading, sync problems, browser compatibility, recovering a draft, and how to report a bug.
Version History
Snapshots and version history in the Dock Editor. Review earlier versions, restore a previous draft, and see whether a change came from you or from an AI agent.
Voice Mode
Write by voice in the Dock Editor. Recording and transcription, freeform and selection modes, ghost-text preview, choosing between versions, style presets, and voice settings.
Zotero and Mendeley
Import references from Zotero and Mendeley into the Dock Editor, and use BibTeX import and export to move a library between tools.