Import and Export

Half the internet is asking how to get Markdown into Word without wrecking the formatting, and the answers involve pandoc flags, converter websites, and prayer. Dock's answer is one menu. You write in the editor, and the document leaves in whatever format the destination demands, with formatting, citations, and track changes intact.

Export

Pick the format your destination needs:

• Markdown, for a repository, a static site, or another Markdown editor.
• HTML, for the web or any system that takes rich text.
• Plain text, for the cases that want words and nothing else.
• Word (DOCX), which keeps your formatting and carries track-change marks, so a reviewer opens the file and finds the changes in their own Review tab.
• PDF, through your browser's print to PDF, for a fixed, shareable copy.
• Copy to clipboard, to lift the whole document straight into wherever you are pasting.

Every export renders the document as you see it. Headings, lists, tables, math, images, and citations come through formatted, which is the entire point of not needing a converter.

Import

Drafts rarely start where they finish. Bring outside writing in:

• Import a web page by URL, and the article arrives as a clean document you can edit.
• Import a PDF to bring a document off your disk and into the editor.
• Import Markdown to drop an existing .md file in as formatted content.

Imported content becomes a normal Dock document. Format it, cite inside it, run AI on it, publish it, the same as anything you wrote from scratch.

Where exports and imports show up elsewhere

• A Word export preserving track changes is covered in Track Changes.
• Importing a web page is also available through the document API, see the agent API docs.
• To publish a document as a live web page instead of exporting a file, see Publishing.