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.
Serious writing has receipts. A research paper, a client report, a thesis chapter, each one has to survive a reader who checks. The Dock Editor is a document workspace built for exactly that: real citations from real records, AI that suggests and then waits for your yes, dictation that returns prose instead of transcripts, track changes on everything, and export to wherever the work has to land.
Every feature on this page is in the shipped editor. Start writing for free at Start Writing Free, or open the guide for the feature you came for.
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 any of 10,000+ 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
An AI writing assistant that asks first. Improve, rewrite, expand, shorten, summarize, or run your own prompt, with every result staged for review before it enters the document.
AI Autocomplete
Ghost-text suggestions ahead of your cursor, on your terms. Tab to ask, Tab to accept, with settings for length, tone, citation awareness, and a saved voice.
Bibliography
The reference list builds itself from your citations, orders itself for your style, and never drifts out of sync with what the paper actually cites.
Citation Library
Save a source once and cite it forever, with collections, deduplication, PDF extraction, and a library panel that sits beside the page while you write.
Citations
Add a real source by DOI or search, get the marker at your claim and the reference in the list, and switch the whole document between any of 10,000+ 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
Export to Word, PDF, Markdown, HTML, or text with formatting, citations, and track changes intact, and import from a web page, a PDF, or a Markdown file.
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
A LaTeX equation editor inside the document. Inline and block math, KaTeX rendering, and a popover that shows the rendered result while you type the source.
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
A free AI prompt library built into the editor. Browse thousands of prompts, fill in their variables, drop them into a document, and save your own.
Publishing
Turn a document into a live web page at its own URL, with SEO title and description, listed or unlisted visibility, auto-sync with your draft, and one-click unpublish.
Security and Privacy
Is it safe to write with AI? Here is exactly what happens to your text, where documents live, the no-training policy, and how to export or delete everything.
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
Every edit arrives as a suggestion you accept or reject, marked in the document, with who made it and when attached, and the marks survive export to Word.
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
See past versions of a document, recover a previous draft in one move, and read whether each change came from you or from an AI agent.
Voice Mode
Dictation that writes instead of transcribing. Speak, get clean prose back in versions you choose from, preview it inline, and commit only what you pick.
Zotero and Mendeley
Whichever side of the Zotero-or-Mendeley debate you landed on, your library imports into Dock and cites in any of 10,000+ styles. BibTeX covers everything else.