Paper settings

A paper's title and summary, deadlines, length limit, citation style, statistics and footer.

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Paper settings, on a paper's page or on its row, opens a drawer.

Paper settings: length, citations and statistics

About

The Title and a Summary (what the paper is about, in your own words), and a line saying its kind and how it is written.

Deadlines

The paper's deadlines, with Add a deadline. They show under the paper's title, on the start page and in the calendar. See Deadlines and the calendar.

Length

At most, At least (optional), and Counted in: words, characters, or characters without spaces.
The count covers what you write, without the reference list.
In the list of sections, untick a section to leave it out of the count, as an abstract or an appendix often is. Give a section an Aim to set its own target.
Press Keep this limit, or No limit.

The meter on the paper turns to near at 90%, and the header says how much is left, or how far over the paper is.

Citations

Citation style: APA 7, Harvard (Cite Them Right), IEEE or Chicago author–date. It applies here and in every file written from now on. Sealed versions keep theirs.

Statistics

Words, characters, sections (finished and not started), citations, figures.
Roughly how many pages (at 500 words a page) and how long it takes to read.
Pace: with a limit and a deadline, About 310 words a day to reach 8,000 by 16 October.
A bar for each sealed version, showing how its length changed.

Written out as Word or PDF

Footer on every page: this paper's own footer, with the page number on the right. Left empty, the paper uses your footer from Settings → Writing. If that is empty too, the footer says which paper and version the page comes from.