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Clear, practical guides for writing, compiling, and sharing LaTeX and Typst projects.
Manage your projects
Find, duplicate, archive, trash, import, and export projects from the dashboard.
Find your work
The Projects page lists everything you own or collaborate on, so the first job is narrowing it down.
How to do it
- Search by project name, or turn on File contents to search inside the files as well; the list is always ordered by last edit, newest first.
- Use the views in the sidebar to narrow the list: Shared with You, starred, archived, and deleted projects each have their own.
- Star the handful of projects you are actually working in this week.
- Archive a project that is finished but worth keeping; it leaves the main list without leaving your account.
- Stars and archiving are personal — a collaborator's list is not reshuffled by yours.
Duplicate, trash, and restore
Most lifecycle actions live in the project's own menu, and the destructive ones belong to the owner alone.
How to do it
- Duplicate any project you can open — including one shared with you — to get an independent copy that belongs to you.
- A copy made while a Collection is open is added to that Collection.
- Only the owner can move a project to the Trash, restore it from the Trash, or delete it permanently.
- A project has to be in the Trash before it can be deleted permanently, so nothing disappears in one click.
- To delete permanently, open the deleted view in the sidebar, select the projects, and choose Delete permanently in the bar that appears.
- Deleting permanently also removes the project's history, AI sessions, and Git repository.
Rename, select several, and hand over
Some jobs are quicker from the dashboard than from inside a project.
How to do it
- Owners and editors can choose Rename in a project's menu without opening it.
- Tick the box beside several projects to act on them together: Add to collection, Download, Archive, or Trash.
- Only projects you own can be trashed or deleted; Clear drops the selection.
- To hand a project to someone else, open Share inside it and choose Make owner on a member; you stay on as an editor.
Import and export
Work moves in and out of JointTex as ordinary archives, with limits that keep one project compilable.
How to do it
- Import existing work by uploading a ZIP archive — up to 100 MiB per import, and several archives in one pass. The root file is picked for you: a .tex file first (main.tex, the one with \documentclass, or the one no other .tex file inputs or includes), otherwise main.typ or the .typ file that no other .typ file imports or includes. You can change it in Project settings.
- On Education, Plus, or Pro, choose New project and then Import from GitHub or WebDAV to create a project from a repository branch or a WebDAV folder that stays connected to it.
- Stay inside the per-project limits: at most 20,000 files and 512 MiB, with a single uploaded file up to 50 MiB.
- Export from the project menu: choose Download, then PDF for the compiled PDF or Project (.zip) for the sources.
- For someone who reviews in Word, choose Export as Word (.docx) in the same menu. The document is compiled first, so section, figure, table and equation numbers and the reference list match the PDF, and equations arrive as editable Word equations. It is a copy for reading and commenting, not a typeset submission: the layout is Word's own, and the dialog lists everything that could not be carried over (TikZ pictures, custom environments, missing figures) so nothing goes missing unnoticed. The same menu has Export as Markdown (.md), a copy of the text with equations as TeX and its images in a folder beside it, and Export as HTML (.html), a single web page that holds its images and shows equations as MathML. All three work for LaTeX and Typst projects; a Typst project has to compile to be exported, and what Typst only draws on the page (shapes, diagrams) is left out and listed.
- Bring a Word or Markdown draft in as LaTeX or Typst: choose New project, then Import from files, pick a .docx or .md file (up to 50 MiB), say which of the two the documents become and choose Start import. A LaTeX project made this way compiles with XeLaTeX. Or right-click such a file in the Explorer and choose Convert to LaTeX (Convert to Typst in a Typst project). Inside a project, a Markdown file becomes a .tex or .typ file beside it, and a Word file that holds images a folder with that file and those images. Changes tracked in Word are not carried back into your sources.
- Every member can export, including viewers — read access is enough to take a copy away.