Views: the same cards, a different story
Connections pile up. A view maps a fresh set of relationships over the very same elements. Nothing moves; only the arrows you see change.
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Give your writing room to think.
Expanse is a text editor built on an infinite canvas. Write finished documents right beside the PDFs, notes and sources they draw on, in one open workspace.
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The problem
Serious writing doesn't happen in one window.
Your editor gives you one focused page and nothing else. Everything your writing draws on is scattered somewhere behind it.
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Reading, notes and drafting live in different apps
Every switch between them costs you your place and your train of thought.
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Many PDFs, many sections, one tiny window
A fixed window shows one thing at a time, so working across sources turns into hide-and-seek.
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Page 9 needs page 2
Checking what you wrote earlier means scrolling away from where you're typing, then hunting for your spot again.
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Quotes come loose from their sources
Copy a passage out of a PDF and it forgets where it came from. Rebuilding the reference is busywork.
Try it
A whiteboard you can write finished documents in.
Drag anything. The arrows follow, and their labels carry the meaning. Switch views to map a different set of connections over the same elements.
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p. 12 · Kahneman 1979
The aggravation one experiences in losing a sum of money…
CHAPTER 3 — METHODS
Field Methods for Loss Aversion
Their losses arrive slowly, through drought and price collapse, and their reference points drift with them Kahneman & Tversky, 1979.
1,284 wordsDRAFT
VIEWS
Interactive demo. Drag the cards with your mouse or finger.
Two ways to work
Zoom out to think. Focus in to write.
On the canvas, your draft sits among everything it draws on: PDFs you can search and highlight, pulled pages, figures, stickies and comments.
One click and the document fills the screen at a comfortable reading width, with a slim rail of pinned sources. One more click puts you back on the canvas, exactly where you were.
Built for the whole piece
Everything your writing draws on, within reach.
Pulled pages that stay linked
Drag a page or passage out of a PDF. Its tab names the file and page, and one click jumps back to the exact spot.
Read page 2 while typing on page 9
Park any page of your own writing on the canvas. Edits made in either place appear in both.
Citations built in
Any element can be cited. Citations appear as compact chips, and references compile from the connections feeding into a document.
Sections you can reuse
Group elements and their connections, then move or collapse them as one. Duplicate a section for a ready-made setup per chapter or interview.
Comments and live collaboration
Comment on a document, a single page, an arrow or a sticky, and the thread opens right beside it. Share a canvas and work together with live presence, from a dissertation committee to a whole team brainstorming a new idea.
Who it's for
For anyone whose writing depends on more than the page in front of them.
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What does a beta tester do?
Use Expanse for your real work and tell us what helps, what gets in the way and what's missing. That feedback guides how the product develops, so it meets your needs.
When will I get access?
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Is Expanse just a whiteboard?
No. Document frames are real pages with headings, footnotes and full formatting, and you can export to DOCX or PDF at any time. The canvas is the workspace around your writing.
Can my team use it together?
Yes. Canvases are shareable with live presence, and any element can be commented on. Teams can brainstorm with stickies and arrows, then write up the idea in a document on the same canvas.
What's a project versus a canvas?
A project holds any number of canvases and a shared source library, so a PDF imported once can be used on any canvas in it. A canvas is the infinite surface where the work happens: one per chapter, case, experiment or storyline.