My current workflow has me writing first drafts of academic work in Ulysses or Scrivner (depending on the scope of the project). I like writing in Ulysses for its simple markdown environment that is distraction free. I love not having to have a web browser open to write so Google docs isn’t my first choice. For writing clinical trial protocols I use a special web app called protocol builder. I currently use Papers which allows me to “cite as a write,” searching for papers I have in my library and add them as unformatted references in Ulysses, Scrivner and protocol builder (really any text editor).
To totally commit to Paperpile I need flexibility to do my writing in places either than just Google docs, meaning I need to be able to search for and add unformatted references in a variety of applications. I’d be quite happy leaving references unformatted and not formatting them until I paste into google docs (or word potentially). But, I need to be able to actually do the writing in another place. Is there any way some kind of desktop app that would enable this functionality might ever be created?
Thanks.