Liquid (not LiquidText) has a suite of products, including a word processor, PDF viewer, and Liquid for online research and translation. They all work together, and the demos are impressive.
Seems to be suited to the humanities, rather than scientific writing.
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It looks pretty interesting. I’m not really submitting papers yet to publication, but more writing for my Ph.D. program, but I’m all in on iOS. My only Mac currently is the first generation MacBook and it is so slow now, that I hate having to get on it and love using my iPad Pro. I’ve been doing my citation management using Zotero and their web interface / API.
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Welcome fellow PhDer!
If I weren’t using Bookends, Zotero would be my choice too. I mostly use Macs, and my iPad Pro is for media consumption and doomscrolling.
Looks interesting! Thanks for sharing.
I think you’ll find this is the preferred (new) website:
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Aiming a product for the humanities is a tough market to crack, as the folks at Mellel can probably attest. The truth is, and I say this as someone who loves open source models so much that I have actually written papers in LaTeX, the humanities are largely captive to Microsoft Word. (I know, I know, the home of critique is the more tied to capitalist endeavors than the sciences.)
There’s just no getting around the fact that when you submit something for publication that the required format is DOCX. (As the editor of a small scholarly journal, I can attest that our publication process is now entirely done in Word. I don’t have to be happy about it, but almost all manuscripts from the USA and Europe come as DOCX … with the occasional DOC (!) file.
Personally, I prefer Scrivener for anything over a few thousand words or more than a section or two in structure. And I too use Bookends, but at this point only because I have so much in it. Zotero has come a long way in terms of functionality (and aesthetics). In some ways, Zotero, with its easy web page capture, might be the better app. I say that with no real experience of the latest Zotero build, so any comparison I offer is incredibly dubious.
I would possiby argue that academic publishing in the Humanities is owned by Microsoft, but in my U.S. experience faculty use Microsoft mostly, but also Nota Bene, Mellel (Hebrew especially), Pages and yes, Scrivener.