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Academic writing, simplified.

Write your thesis in plain text. Out of Office typesets it as you type — citations, figures, tables and page numbers — and shows every page exactly as it will print.

The Out of Office editor: the document's plain-text source on the left, the typeset A4 pages on the right, with the outline in the sidebar.

Focus on the content, not the formatting.

We handle the typesetting so you can handle the research.

Plain text, a few directives

Markdown for the prose, short directives like ::toc, ::table and ::references for everything a thesis needs. No toolbars, no hidden formatting.

Every page as it prints

The preview is the printed document — same page size, margins, breaks and page numbers — so what you proofread is what you hand in.

Citations that take care of themselves

Import your BibTeX file, cite with [@key], and get the in-text citation and reference list in APA or DGPs style.

Figures, tables and math

Upload an image or a CSV and it becomes a numbered figure or table with a caption, listed in the table of figures. Formulas render with KaTeX.

Write together, live

Invite co-authors and supervisors as editors or reviewers. Everyone sees the same text at the same moment, cursors included.

Version history

Automatic snapshots while you write, named versions when it matters, and a restore that never loses the draft you came from.

What you write

---
title: "Collaborative Writing in the Browser"
citation_style: apa
---

::toc

::mainmatter

# Introduction

Most writing time goes into formatting,
not into the argument [@doe2024].

![Revision activity per week](figure.svg)

::table{src="drafts.csv" title="Collected drafts"}

::references

What you get

A finished document, from the first keystroke.

  • Numbered headings and a table of contents that follows your edits
  • In-text citation and reference list in APA or DGPs style
  • Figure 1 with caption, listed in the table of figures
  • A table from a CSV file, numbered and captioned
  • A4 pages with margins and page numbers, ready to print

Everything is rendered in your browser. The server only stores your text and keeps co-authors in sync.

Out of Office is in closed beta.

We are onboarding students, doctoral candidates and researchers in small groups. Tell us what you are writing and we will send you an invite.

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