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Zettlr

Zettlr: Your One-Stop Publication Workbench.

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Zettlr is a free, open-source Markdown editor built for academic and professional writing. It integrates with Zotero for reference management, supports citations in BibTeX and JSON formats, and provides project management tools to track journal submissions. The editor includes a full-text search, split-view, code highlighting, dark mode, and writing statistics. It can export documents to any format supported by Pandoc (30+ formats). Zettlr is available as a desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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