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InkyCap

Typst-based PKM for academics, writers, and everyone.

InkyCap is a personal knowledge management tool that helps you explore ideas and write. Tailored for academic workflows, research, writing, task and date awareness; InkyCap provides flexible ways to organize your information. Resurface ideas and convert your linked notes into beautiful publications or other outputs.

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Make InkyCap your thinking cap

Partial list of features & functions.

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Write in Typst

Write with the ease of Markdown and the typesetting power of Typst; equations, figures, poems, visualizations, and citations render perfectly.

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Connect your thinking

Connect ideas via [[wikilinks]], view a journal flow, query and compile into new documents, and graph how your curiosity emerges.

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You are the sovereign of your data

Every note is a plain-text file stored locally on your computer. No cloud requirements, no generative AI, and no vendor lock-in.

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Find what you need, reflected in your notes<br>InkyCap makes it easy to access your notes directly from your local file/folder structure. The search interface offers familiar academic search expression functionality and regex. You can query your notes' properties to build database-like tables. InkyCap's Journal Scroll lets you view your notes in a chronological flow and the Mycelial View helps you discover where your notes want to grow.

A growing mycelium of notes<br>The Mycelial View surfaces connections and unnamed concepts as they emerge from the paths inherent in your work. Instead of graphing links between notes, Mycelial View shows you latent links and potential new areas to explore, which are based on the connective strength of recurring content.

Review notes and activities clustered in time<br>The Journal Scroll view enables you to select any note and scroll back and forth chronologically so that you can easily find the things that you were working on around the same time.

Collections<br>Create a collection of notes by selecting properties, tags, creation or modification times, and more. A Collection displays all corresponding notes in a table that you can sort by column headers or export as a spreadsheet. Collections turn your notebox into a form of database with many additional features.

Linked notes & zettelkasten<br>Connect ideas as you type with [[wikilinks]]. InkyCap will maintain the connections for you and enable you to create new notes based on those links. All linked notes are ready to access from the context-aware sidebar. You can view a Journal Scroll of your notes going forward or backward in time via automatic zettelkasten IDs (or other parameters) with links providing extra context as you scroll.

Convenient Typst<br>The visual editor (WYSIWYM) simplifies Typst markup for beginners. Toggle to the source editor for the full power of Typst. Headings, equations, tables, poetry with idiosyncratic spacing, and code render instantly. The document you are editing is nearly the document you will publish. Select Reading View to see a precise rendering of your work.

Visual editor<br>Frequently used formatting is accessible from a popup toolbar or / commands. You can also enter Typst markup directly and the visual editor recognizes it. The visual editor inserts discrete graphical components to enable point-and-click adjustments without writing the markup.

Source editor<br>Built with the open source Typst compiler, you can write and edit using the standard Typst markup. Source edit mode reveals all of the markup behind the Visual editor's display. It functions as you would expect with autocomplete and supports export options such as PDF and HTML.

Templates for style, packages for power<br>Use the Typst Universe to access templates and packages. InkyCap can import templates for a variety of document styles and outputs beyond documents, such as presentations. You can extend InkyCap's functionality using Typst packages from the Universe. Create visualizations, charts, diagrams, sheet music, and more.

Friendly toward academic workflows<br>Type tasks or dates in-context, the agenda will track them for you. Use the Collections feature to export a selection of notes as a single PDF like a book, or separately but grouped for example, to make a website. Citations work through native Zotero and BibTeX integration. Collaborate with colleagues by synchronizing through the built-in git functionality or InkyCap's import/export tool, which tracks changes for review.

Citations and bibliographic info is first class<br>Keep your sources in one place and cite them with an "@" keystroke. InkyCap reads information from your local Zotero database or a .bibtex file. Citations in your notes produce a properly formatted reference list in the style you choose. You can use a global citation source for all your work or specify a distinct file for a project. InkyCap can also import your Zotero notes.

Basic, flexible collaboration<br>A simple built-in interface...