Getting started

Papero is an AI writing workspace for students and researchers. It helps you plan, write and cite your paper, and the argument stays yours. Start here if you are new: these pages take you from signing up to your first document, and show you around the app.

In this section

1. What is Papero: what Papero does, how its AI handles your text, and the Free and Plus plans.
2. Create your account: sign up with Google or an email address, confirm your email, answer four short questions and sign in again later.
3. Write your first document: describe your paper, pick a citation style, language and outline, then write with section prompts and suggestions.
4. The editor: the toolbar, the Insert menu, blocks you add with /, the Document options menu, find and replace, and saving.
5. Keyboard shortcuts: every key in the editor, the Markdown you can type as you write, and the search palette.
6. Interface language: switch Papero's menus to one of six languages, and set the language of each document.

Help inside the app

You do not have to leave Papero to get help:

• The Get started card in the sidebar lists five first steps and ticks each one as you do it.
• At the foot of the sidebar, Guides has short how-tos for the main parts of Papero.
• Shortcuts, the next row, lists every key that works in the editor.
• Help, the row after it, has Email support, which starts an email to Papero support.

The account menu also has Guides, Shortcuts and Email support, under Help.

Where to go next

Once you have a document open, the other sections go deeper:

• Writing: outlines, suggestions, rewrites, drafts, tables, charts and equations.
• Citations: find papers, cite them and choose a citation style.
• Library and PDFs: your sources, imports and PDFs.
• Chat and Workflows: ask questions about your library and run longer jobs in the background.
• Review and export: check your writing and export it to Word or LaTeX.
• Integrations: Zotero, Mendeley, the Chrome extension and the connector for Claude and ChatGPT.
• Account and billing: plans, billing and your data.

To compare the plans, see pricing.