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KL studio is in alpha — things move fast and your data may be reset. Here's what changed recently, newest first.
Long documents recompile a lot faster. Editing a real paper now reaches the preview in roughly 0.6 s, where rebuilding it from scratch takes 2–3 s — about four times quicker, and the gap grows with the length of the document. The comparison page has the measured numbers and the method.
Drafts can be written in Typst as well as LaTeX, on the same compile loop with the same live preview, and #cite( autocompletes from your library. Typst support is alpha — editing the source and previewing works today. There are Typst guides for tables, math, figures, charts, and bibliographies.
Share a draft with a link, for viewing or for editing, including with people who don't have an account yet — so a supervisor can read or comment without signing up first.
PubMed is now searchable from Cmd-K — +pubmed crispr for biomedical & life-sciences literature, abstract and all. Every source also has a short alias, so +pm, +ax, +oa, and +cr stand in for pubmed, arxiv, openalex, and crossref. PubMed data is courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine; abstracts may be copyrighted by their publishers.
Signing up now requires an email and a password, so you can log back in from any device. Each account has a ceiling on how much can be embedded, libraries you trash are now permanently removed after 30 days, and the top bar stays put when a page scrolls. This “What's New” page is new too.
When you import a paper, KL now seeds cites links from its reference list in the background. The library bar shows a quiet “resolving references…” line with a running count while that happens, and goes silent once it's done.
Pull papers straight from Cmd-K with the + prefix — +arxiv …, +openalex …, +crossref …. Results import into the focal library as hollow (imported, not-yet-digested) nodes, ready to read. (PubMed and the short aliases came later — see the entry above.)