Wiki & manual

Save your first piece of research

Everything starts with capturing something. Go to Research - there's a box at the top. Write a note, paste a link, a YouTube video, or drag in a file. You can also use the + button anywhere in the app to capture quickly.

• Links become tidy cards with a title and image.
• Articles can be read in so the text itself is searchable.
• YouTube videos can be transcribed so you can search what is said.
• Files (PDF, Word, text and more) can be uploaded and the text extracted - even scanned PDFs, via text recognition.
• Audio can be recorded directly or uploaded and is transcribed automatically.
• Images can be added, and text on them can be read.

Add a tag right away - then it's easy to find again, and you can tie it to the book it belongs to. Click a card to open it; there you can add a private note, highlight passages and change its type.

Capture from anywhere on the web

You don't have to be inside Wriwo to save something. Under Settings → Setup you'll find several ways to capture, wherever you are:

• A bookmark button (bookmarklet) for your computer - one click saves the page you're on.
• An iPhone shortcut - share a page, video or text straight to Wriwo from the share sheet.
• Install the app on your phone or computer so it sits there like a real program.

Everything you capture from outside lands in Research, ready to be tagged and used.

Find everything again

Press Cmd/Ctrl + K anywhere to search across all your material - not just titles, but the content itself in notes, Pages and documents.

Wriwo also searches by meaning, not just words: ask about something and it finds the notes that are about it, even if you don't use the exact words. If you want an actual answer rather than a list, use Ask AI instead.

Tags & collections

Tags keep your material organised in Research. Click a tag to filter, and use the tag picker to combine several or exclude some.

One special tag - the book's tag - links research to a specific book. Then the material shows up right where you write, and the brain knows what belongs to what. Give a document its tag in the document settings, and tag your research as you go.

If you have many cards with the same tag, you can bulk-tag several at once and tidy up big piles quickly.

Active document

Wriwo remembers which document you last worked in - your active document. Both Research and Plan can follow it, so you only see the research and to-dos that belong to whatever you're writing right now.

You'll see the name of the active document at the top and can switch via the document button. If you'd rather see everything across the board, you can turn off "follow document" in the settings.

Ask AI (the brain)

The brain answers only from your own material - with citations you can click into. Ask a question in Research and get an answer drawn from your own notes, Pages and documents. The answer streams in as it's written, and you can copy it with one click.

It never makes things up - if the answer isn't in your material, it says so. And it answers in your own language.

Not sure what to ask? There are ready-made actions in the empty box: Summarize, Timeline, Contradictions and Draft. One click sends a well-thought-out question.

Synthesize a tag

Got a loose pile of research under one tag but no book yet? Filter by the tag in Research and hit Synthesize. The brain reads it all and builds structure: a summary, the themes it splits into, cross-cutting connections, and the open questions still to answer.

It's the way to go from "a lot of stuff I've gathered" to "here's what it's actually about, and where the gaps are".

Topics

The brain automatically spots the people, places and concepts that recur across your research and builds a page per topic with a summary and links to every note. Open them via Topics in Research.

The wiki layer builds itself as you gather more - so you get a reference work on your own material without having to maintain it.

Files & upload

Want to pour a lot in at once? Use the import box in Research to upload files in bulk (PDF, Word, text, code) or import a whole list of links (bookmarks, Pocket, Instapaper, Raindrop, CSV).

• The text is extracted from every file and becomes full-text searchable.
• Scanned PDFs with no text layer are read with text recognition (OCR).
• You can tag everything in the import at once.

Then even old documents are part of your second brain and can be found with Ask AI and search.

Sources & citations

Writing something that needs sources - a thesis or a well-researched article - Wriwo keeps track of them for you. You can build a bibliography and get citations in the right style: APA, Chicago, Vancouver or Harvard, and export as BibTeX for your reference tool.

Got a claim you're unsure about? The brain can find sources for it or check it, so you don't write something that doesn't hold up.

Documents & chapters

In Write you create documents - each with its chapters or sections. Pick the document type when you create it (novel, thesis, article, report or video script) and Wriwo adapts; you can always change it later via the gear icon.

All your documents sit as cards on the shelf with title, type and when you were last at work. Click a card to write on, or create a new one. Title and subtitle are set in the document settings.

@-mentions & links

As you write, type @ to mention something else: a note, a Page or another document. It becomes a link you can click, so your text stays connected to your research.

It makes it easy to pull a source or an earlier idea straight into the text without leaving what you're writing on.

Focus - write without distractions

Hit Focus at the top right and everything else fades away, leaving only your text. When you reach the bottom you can read on into the next section - forward and back - so you can take in the whole document in one calm flow.

Good both when you're writing new material and when you want to read the whole work through in one go.

AI tools while you write

In the AI panel on the right of Write you'll find per-chapter tools:

• Spellcheck and repeated words.
• Show, don't tell - points out where the text tells a feeling instead of showing it, with a suggestion.
• Continuity check - finds contradictions across chapters (were her eyes blue or brown?).

Select text to Rewrite in a couple of clicks: tighten, make more vivid, fix the language and more. You decide whether the suggestion goes in.

Overview & gaps

Hit Create overview in the AI panel and the brain reads the whole book and gives you:

• The main threads and the loose ends.
• A short recap of each chapter - a bird's-eye view of the structure.
• Your most important notes - the heaviest research, marked whether it's been used or not.
• And most useful of all: the research you tagged to the book but haven't used in the text yet.

A gentle reminder of what's still missing - so good notes don't get forgotten along the way.

Design a cover

For a book you can design a cover right inside Wriwo - pick Design cover in the menu when you have a document open. It comes along when you export or share, so your work looks finished.

Video script & teleprompter

Making YouTube? You can create a document as a video script. Then you get tools that fit it: a teleprompter to read from while you record, and AI help for titles, description and tags as well as repurposing the script into other formats.

The whole way from research to script to what you read out in front of the camera lives in one place.

Versions & share with an editor

Wriwo saves versions of your work as you go, so you can go back and see what it said before - and who changed what, if there are several of you.

Want an editor or friend to read along? You can share the whole book or selected chapters via a link. The recipient can read and comment without creating an account.

Archive, delete & export

Finished with a document? Archive it and it leaves your shelf without being deleted. To get rid of it, delete it to the trash, where it stays for 30 days before it's gone for good - so you can undo.

You can export to Word, PDF, EPUB, Markdown and plain text whenever you need to hand in or publish.

Pages (Overview)

Pages are your free-form workspaces under Overview - like a document with text, tables (spreadsheets), images, subpages and @-mentions. Great for overviews, plans, character lists, budgets and anything that isn't a note or a book.

The spreadsheet handles real formulas (like Excel), and you can drag images and screenshots straight in. Pages can also be locked behind a PIN and exported.

Plan (to-dos)

Keep track of your tasks in Plan. You can attach to-dos to the document you're working on, so what needs doing follows the book - research to read, chapters to fix, sources to find.

Vault & PIN lock

Want to keep something private? Set a PIN in the Vault and lock documents or Pages behind it. They stay hidden - from the brain and search too - until you unlock.

The PIN is 6 digits and hardened against guessing. Remember to save your recovery code when you set it - it's your only way in if you forget the PIN.

Theme & appearance

Under Settings → Appearance you choose theme, font and text size. The paper look is the default, but you can switch to dark or other colours.

Want something all your own? You can make custom themes: pick five core colours and Wriwo builds a full palette, and you can save up to 10.

Language & your own AI keys

Under Settings → Language you switch language - Wriwo speaks eight.

Want to use your own AI key (e.g. for unlimited or more powerful AI)? Add it under Settings → AI. Then the AI runs on your key - and it doesn't count against your included amount. You can add keys for several providers, and there's a guide to where you find them.

Work together (team)

Several of you on a project? You can work together on a Team plan. You see each other's presence, who's editing what, and can leave messages and suggestions. Versions show who changed what.

You invite members and manage roles under Settings → Team.

Help & what's new

Stuck? You can message support from inside the app - and get answers in your own language, even if we reply in another.

Want to see what's been added? There's a list of new features and improvements under What's new in the user menu.

On your phone

Wriwo works in the browser, but you can also install it as an app on phone and computer from Settings → Setup. Then it sits there like a real program, updates itself, and some of it even works offline.

On the phone it's ideal for capturing an idea, a link or a voice note on the go - and then writing on the big screen.

Write a book - from research to manuscript

A workflow that holds up when the project is big:

1. Create the book in Write and give it a tag.
2. Capture everything as you go in Research - articles, images, voice notes, stray ideas - and tag it with the book's tag.
3. If the material is messy, Synthesize the tag to find themes and gaps before you write.
4. Write the chapters. Use @ to pull notes in, and Ask AI when you need to recall a detail.
5. Run Create overview to see the main threads and the research you haven't used yet.
6. Clean the text with Rewrite, continuity check and show, don't tell.
7. Design a cover, export or share with your editor.

Thesis - keeping the sources straight

1. Gather everything in Research: upload PDFs and articles so the text is searchable, and tag by topic or chapter.
2. Let Topics and Synthesize show how your material connects and where something's missing.
3. Build your bibliography as you go, and get citations in APA, Chicago, Vancouver or Harvard - or BibTeX.
4. Write in Write, pull sources in with @, and let the brain check claims you're unsure about.
5. Create overview before handing in, so no important source is forgotten. Export to Word.

Journalist - from recording to article

1. Capture on the go: record interviews as audio, save links and images from your phone with Setup.
2. Audio is transcribed automatically, so the quotes are searchable right away.
3. Gather a story's material under one tag, and use Ask AI to find the right quote across all of it.
4. Write the article, let the brain find or check sources, and tighten the language with Rewrite.
5. Export or copy the finished text.

YouTuber - from idea to teleprompter

1. Gather research for a video in Research: transcribe other videos, save links, jot down ideas.
2. Create a video script in Write.
3. Write the script, and pull research in with @.
4. Read from the teleprompter while you record.
5. Let AI make the title, description and tags - and repurpose the script into other formats.

Build your second brain

The biggest payoff comes when everything talks together:

• Capture without thinking about it - every idea, every link, every voice note goes into Research via Setup and the + button.
• Tag loosely - just enough to find it again. A perfect system isn't necessary.
• Ask instead of hunting - Ask AI searches by meaning across all of it.
• Let the wiki layer build itself - Topics gathers people, places and concepts automatically.
• Synthesize when a pile has grown big enough to deserve structure.

The more you capture, the smarter your second brain gets.

Five habits that make you fast

• Cmd/Ctrl + K for everything: search and jump around without leaving the keyboard.
• The + button to capture from anywhere in the app.
• Tag right away - five seconds now saves ten minutes of hunting later.
• Active document: let Research and Plan follow whatever you're writing now.
• Create overview regularly, so you know what's missing - instead of discovering it at the end.