publishResearch desk: from your sources to a draft
Keep the sources for an issue in one place, tick the ones you want, and press one button. A draft issue opens in the editor with your notes laid out and every source numbered at the end. Reader questions your issues could not answer become drafts the same way.
Step-by-step guide with screenshots →
Collect sources in a minute
Paste a link and the page’s title and opening text are read for you. Upload a text PDF and it is read with its page numbers. Or type your own notes. Everything is private to you.
One press to a draft
Tick the sources for this issue and say in a sentence what the issue is about. “Start a draft from my notes” lays the notes out under each source, numbers them, and adds the source list with links at the end. This is free on every plan, and nothing is published until you publish it.
On Writer Pro: an outline where every point has a source
AI plans the issue from the ticked sources for 4 credits: three title options, an opening, and sections of points. Every point ends with the number of the source it came from. A point with no source, or with a source that does not exist, is left out, and so is anything containing a link. You also get a short list of claims to check yourself.
It can learn how you write
For 2 credits it reads your last few public issues and writes down who you write for and how you write. That description is then used whenever AI writes for you, in outlines and in the share kit, and you can edit it.
Reader questions tell you what to write next
When “Ask this newsletter” is on, readers ask questions of your archive. The questions it could not answer are listed for you, most asked first, with no reader named. One press starts a draft issue with the question at the top. Publish it, and the next reader who asks gets an answer.
What it does not do
It does not write the issue for you, and it does not check facts. An outline is a plan with pointers to your own sources; the writing and the checking stay with you.