Write up

Hand what you read to where you write

Rectoly isn't another editor. Its job is done when what you've read reaches the place you write — Word, LaTeX, Obsidian or your reference manager.

A paper and the manuscript being written, open side by side
How it works

See it in use

01

Your manuscript, beside the paper

Open the .docx, .odt or Markdown file you're writing next to the paper you're reading. Every time you save in Word, the view catches up.

The manuscript pane catching up each time the file is saved
02

Quote with the right page number

Copy from the reflowed text and the printed page number comes along: “p. 312”, not “page 5 of the PDF”. BibTeX and citation keys are one click away too.

A quotation selected, and BibTeX copied from the menu
03

Figures as images, tables as cells

Export every figure as PNG and every table as CSV, from one paper or many at once. Copy a table and it pastes into Excel as cells, not a picture.

Figures and tables being exported from the library's menu
04

From a research theme to Word

Export a research theme as Markdown or Word, with a reference list built from the papers it quotes.

A research theme exported as Markdown or Word
When you'd use it

Where it fits in your day

While writing a paper

Find the sentence to quote, next to your draft

Move a quotation from the paper to your manuscript, page number included, without switching windows.

Making slides

A paper's figure, as a PNG

No screenshots to crop.

If you keep notes in Obsidian

A note per paper, in your vault

The highlights and notes of a paper you open are written as a Markdown note named after its citation key, in the folder you choose.

The details

Notes that keep their sources
Highlights export as Markdown grouped by the paper's sections, each quote with its citation key and page, plus CSL-JSON.
When a table is uncertain
Tables recognised with low confidence are marked “check”.
Back to your library
Send a paper's note to Mendeley or Zotero as that item's note.
A PDF anyone can open
Export the PDF with your highlights and handwriting drawn in.
Zotero citation keys
Supports Zotero 7 citation keys and Better BibTeX.

Every feature, free for 14 days

On Windows or Mac, everything is free for 14 days. Then it's a one-time purchase that works on every device signed in to the same account.