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Author
The Augmented Text Company LTD
About
The Author app gives you complete control over the authoring process with advanced citation copy, an expanded glossary, enhanced views, clippings, and more.
When you're ready to share your work in PDF format, you'll receive an automatically generated help section. You can also publish posts in WordPress.
Key Features:
Quick-Cite
Copy from PDF into companion Reader app and paste as full citation in Author
Insert BibTex or DOI from an academic PDF to automatically turn it into a full citation
Quickly and easily cite books, web pages, and YouTube videos (if desired, at specified times)
Quotes can be easily moved from one document to another by clicking a link and selecting "Copy Link"
Advanced Automatic Export Options
Add links section
Create Cover Page
Number of titles
Specify how citations should be displayed: "Date" of the author or "Number" of the author
Makes printed references online
Ability to attach Visual-Meta
Publishing to WordPress: supports multiple accounts and attached images
Advanced Views
Dynamic View: Think freely beyond traditional columns of text. Mind map, concept map and write down thoughts right inside the author
Instant highlighting: Pinch your fingers on the trackpad to zoom out text so you can see only the headings. Spread your fingers to see more or fewer titles
Advanced Search: If you only want to see sentences with a specific keyword, select cmd-f keyword to hide all sentences that are missing the keyword. Click a sentence to jump to it, press cmd-f or ESC again to return to normal view.
Magic fields: Double-click fields (in full screen mode) to record any notes you want. If notes are also in the document, they will appear in bold and you can double-click to see all occurrences of them.
Note. These fields do not follow your document as you scroll, they are separated so that you always have space available for notes - hence they are not like traditional fields
Cuttings
Anything you cut (but not copy) is remembered by Author. CMD-shift-v to see what you have
Cut and choose what to paste
Modern and minimalism
Makes Author fast and gives you automatic saving and everything else you'd expect from a modern native macOS app, including iCloud Drive (syncing with Author iOS in the future)
cmd
- / cmd + to scale all text, you can't change the size, color or font of specific text in Author, only make it bold and italic because Author is a writing app, not a layout app, so you're less unproductive with text. The app reduces eye strain by supporting macOS' native dark mode.
Includes full citation information and internal links. Author is minimalistic, but not “discounted”
ESC to switch to and from full screen mode. This seems like a small thing, but is very useful when transitioning between focused writing and interacting with many documents.
A Liquid Product
Integrated with Reader: Provides instant citation by simply copying and pasting text using the Visual-Meta method as described on Liquid
Integrated with Liquid Actions: Provides hundreds of commands in less than one second for any selected text.