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Guides & Tips

These guides go deeper than the Getting Started articles, covering specific workflows, advanced features, and practical strategies for getting the most out of Atlas.

Writing & Editing

Everything you do inside a document — the content you add and the environment you write in.

  • Write with Focus

    Focus Mode, Typewriter Scrolling, and a stripped-down workspace for distraction-free writing.

  • Tables

    Create and edit tables directly in the editor, with alignment controls and clean Markdown output.

  • Math Equations

    Embed LaTeX math expressions inline or as blocks, with live rendering, autocomplete, and export support.

  • Document Variables

    Insert live placeholders like title, author, and dates with {{ — they stay current and resolve to text on export.

  • Templates

    Create reusable document blueprints with pre-filled content, tags, and icons.

  • The Theme Editor

    Create custom editor themes with per-element styling, Quick Colors, and real-time preview.

Structure & Connections

Build relationships between ideas and find anything across your project.

  • Using Wiki Links Effectively

    Link documents with [[, discover connections through incoming links, and build a knowledge graph.

  • Tags and Search

    Create hierarchical tags, filter with query tokens, and find documents with Spotlight.

  • Metadata

    Define typed fields per project and attach values to documents from the Inspector.

Workflows & Recipes

Start-to-finish walkthroughs for organizing larger projects.

  • Organizing a Novel

    Folder structure, status tags, synopsis summaries, and canvas plot maps for fiction projects.

  • Organizing Research

    Import sources, tag by relevance, link citations to drafts, and map concepts visually.

  • Canvas Workflows

    Practical patterns: plot mapping, character webs, concept maps, storyboarding, and world maps.

Keeping Your Work Safe

Sync, history, and offline resilience, so you never lose your work.

  • Document History

    Automatic snapshots, the version browser, and restoring previous content.

  • iCloud Sync and Conflicts

    Sync setup, status monitoring, conflict resolution, and troubleshooting.

  • Working Offline

    How Atlas handles offline work, image and equation caching, and reconnecting.

Exporting & Publishing

Turn your writing into polished output, and shape exactly how it looks.

Automation & Integrations

Connect Atlas to the world outside it.

  • Shortcuts & Automation

    Drive Atlas from the Shortcuts app and Siri — 24 actions for creating, retrieving, editing, organizing, and canvas work.

  • Advanced Web Clipper Templates

    Full reference for the Rosetta markup template language — variables, filters, logic, and complete examples.

Reference & Support

Look-up material, and help when something isn't working right.

  • Keyboard Shortcuts

    Complete shortcut reference for markup, file management, canvas, and navigation.

  • Export App Logs for Support

    Gather Atlas's recent diagnostic logs into a shareable file to send with a bug report, on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.