Atelier: Scholarly Workspace is a local-first research workspace for deep reading, source notes, synthesis, concepts, preparation, and project review.
Designed for students, researchers, scholars, and anyone doing serious reading, Atelier helps you move from sources to structured thinking without turning research into automation.
With Atelier, you can:
• Create research projects around a guiding inquiry
• Import and organize source metadata
• Attach your own PDFs and documents
• Read sources in a focused scholarly workspace
• Capture source-bound notes in a Thought Stream
• Mark notes as claims, evidence, methods, findings, questions, limitations, and counterpoints
• Build synthesis notes across multiple sources
• Create concepts and explicit relations with written rationales
• Track open questions across the project
• Compare sources in a Literature Matrix
• Organize selected material into Preparation Packets
• Review Reading-to-Structure Threads to trace how source notes become concepts, synthesis, and preparation
• Export a polished Research Dossier for review, supervision, or later writing
Atelier is built around a simple idea:
Your interpretation should remain yours.
The app does not write your research for you. It helps make your reading, source notes, concepts, questions, and argument structure more visible and traceable.
AI assistance is optional and user-initiated. It only works with selected context and is designed to support review, clarity, and reflection. It does not replace scholarly judgment.
Atelier is useful for:
• Literature reviews
• Dissertation and thesis preparation
• Graduate research projects
• Academic reading
• Source comparison
• Concept mapping
• Research preparation
• Evidence organization
• Project review before writing
Atelier keeps research grounded in sources, notes, and explicit connections so you can see how your thinking develops over time.
Wonderful app, I had it on my Mac first and now it’s on my iPad, absolutely love it, it takes a bit to learn but there are plenty of tutorials
Developer Response
Thank you for using Atelier. I will continuously work on the product to make it a better workspace for researchers :)
Atelier now offers a more coherent research journey from source reading to writing preparation.
• Capture and revisit evidence from PDFs, Word documents, and text sources with clearer source-note context.
• Find research faster with expanded workspace and source-library search.
• Organize active, completed, and archived projects more clearly.
• Improve citation records, imports, duplicate review, and bibliography handoff.
• Move from notes to synthesis and writing plans with stronger evidence links.
• Review missing source details, unresolved questions, and provisional connections before drafting.
• Use more transparent, source-aware AI assistance while retaining control of your research decisions.
Version 1.8.7
The developer, Adel Hashemi, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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