A fresh breeze for collaborative LaTeX editing.
Write papers together and collaborate using the tools you already use.
Built around existing workflows
Citet is designed to fit naturally into research and technical writing workflows.
- →Collaborative online editing
- →Integrations for VSCode and Neovim
- →Citation workflows that fit Nocite and Zotero
- →Project backups to external storage providers
The goal is to improve collaborative writing without forcing researchers into entirely new tools.
Use your own editor if you want
Some people prefer writing directly in the browser.
Others work primarily in Neovim, VSCode, or local LaTeX setups. Citet supports both approaches, so projects can be edited collaboratively without giving up familiar tools.
Open and self-hostable
Citet is open source and can be self-hosted by universities, research groups, or individual teams.
The public instance is hosted in Europe, partly because that is where the project itself is based.
A simpler collaborative workflow
LaTeX collaboration often becomes fragmented across:
- Local editors
- Cloud drives
- Email attachments
- Git repositories
- Exported PDFs
Citet tries to make collaborative writing feel more direct while remaining compatible with existing workflows.
Built by people who use LaTeX
Citet is developed by programmers and researchers who actively work with LaTeX themselves.
The project aims to stay practical, interoperable, and close to the workflows researchers already rely on.
Part of Backmatter
Backmatter uses LaTeX command names for the workflow around a paper. Citet is where sources become writing. Nocite is where sources live before they are cited.
- Citetwriting and citing
- Nocitesources before they enter the paper
- Shipoutrendering documents into output
- Loadclassdocumentclass templates