01 / The map is the editor
Your links become a visual map.
Start with an empty map, create the first note, then link another. Gatherfield opens it beside the original and grows the map from the links in your text.
Writing with structure
Keep your notes connected.
Long projects sprawl into notes, sources, outlines, and half-finished drafts. Gatherfield keeps those pieces editable as text while the map, references, annotations, history, and read-through stay close to the pages that use them.
Build the map
Work in drafts
02 / Alternate drafts
Experiment with drafts and the paths they create.
Keep alternate versions when an idea branches. Switch drafts and the map follows the links in the version you chose.
03 / Version history
Revise freely.
Follow an idea too far, then pull back. History restores an earlier draft while the note remains a normal text file.
Your notes are plaintext files on disk.
Everything in these clips is ordinary Markdown. Open it in any editor, sync it however you like, and keep it long after Gatherfield. The map, drafts, and history are added on top—never locked in.
Shape the text
04 / Annotations
Leave comments beside the text, not inside it.
Highlight a line or leave a comment. The annotation stays attached to the passage while the underlying text stays clean.
05 / Read-through
Keep a read-through current without copy-paste.
Write chapters as separate linked notes. Each link you add pulls its chapter into the read-through—one growing document, stitched from the flow.
06 / Live snippets
One value, in sync across every note.
Wrap a recurring value in {name:value} and it becomes a live snippet. Type it again anywhere and it autocompletes to the value you set; change it once and every note updates in a single reviewed step—while the files stay plain text you can read in any editor.
{name:…} across your notes updates as one undoable step.