Write LaTeX together: a tour of Luzbase

LaTeX is still the best way to produce a paper, a thesis or a technical report that looks right. Writing one with other people has traditionally been the hard part: emailed .tex files, a shared folder of final_v3_reallyfinal.pdf, and one person who "owns the build". Luzbase is a collaborative LaTeX editor in the browser that removes that friction. Here is what a project looks like from start to finish.

Start from a template, or bring your own project

Every project begins somewhere. The template gallery has ready-made starting points for papers, theses, reports and CVs, and each one compiles as soon as you open it, so you start from a working PDF instead of a blank preamble.

Already have a project? Import it as a .zip and keep working where you left off: your files, folder structure and images come with it.

Edit together, in real time

Invite co-authors and edit the same document at once. You see each other's changes as they happen, so there is no merging by hand and no "who has the latest version?" thread. Projects can belong to a team, so a lab or a study group shares its work in one place.

See the PDF as you write

Compile right in the browser and read the result in the side-by-side PDF preview. Thanks to SyncTeX, you can jump from a spot in the PDF to the source line that produced it, and back again, which makes tracking down that one stray \vspace much less painful.

Branches and history: try things without fear

Want to restructure a chapter or test a reviewer's suggestion without disturbing everyone else? Create a branch, work there, and bring the changes back when they are ready.

Every change is recorded in the project's history. You can see who changed what, compare versions, and go back to an earlier state if an experiment did not work out.

Citations from your reference manager

Connect Zotero or Mendeley and sync your library straight into the project's .bib file. Add a paper to your reference manager, sync, and \cite{} it, with no exporting and re-uploading of bibliographies.

Reuse what you write often: snippets

Most of us retype the same things: a table layout, a theorem environment, a figure with a caption and a label. Save them as snippets and drop them into any project. You can also explore snippets that others have shared.

Getting started

1. Sign up at luzbase.com.
2. Pick a template, or import an existing project.
3. Invite your co-authors and start writing.

We will be posting product updates, how-to guides and LaTeX tips here. If there is a topic you would like us to cover, let us know.