Research → Writing → Publishing

Overview

You've researched a topic in a Research Cafe: the sources are gathered, the best snippets are on your Serving Tray, and a report has been written. Now you can write with it. Move to Workspace turns any finished report into a scribe you can edit — its chapters and sections laid out the way you choose, with every citation carried across intact. From there, the Workspace's Reports tab lets you pull in more reports as you go, and pasting from a Cafe's Serving Tray now drops in a proper numbered citation instead of a bare link. When you're ready, Publish — pick what it is, tick one consent box, and it appears in the Library with a Research-backed badge.

This article walks the whole path end to end. Each step links to the article that covers it in full.

1. Move a report to the Workspace

Open a finished report in a Research Cafe — from the reading pane, the full-screen report page, or a café someone shared with you — and click Move to Workspace in the action row (it sits between Save to Notebooks and Share). A dialog opens:

• Working title — prefilled from the report's own title.
• Scribe type — what kind of scribe this becomes (Report, Book, Article, Whitepaper, Guide, and more).
• Chapter mapping — two choices, with live counts so you can see the effect before you commit:
  • One chapter — the whole report becomes a single chapter.
  • A chapter per heading — every ## heading in the report becomes its own chapter (a ### sub-heading becomes a section inside it).
  • One of these is marked Advised — the dialog looks at how many ## headings the report actually has and preselects the option that fits, so you're not choosing blind. You can still pick the other one; the badge is a suggestion, not a lock.
• "N references will be loaded" — the number of sources the new scribe's citations will carry across.
• "The report stays in the café." — moving never deletes or edits the original report. You can move the same report more than once; each move creates a separate scribe.

Click Create and you land straight in the Workspace with the new scribe open, structured exactly as you chose. See Auto-Write Research Reports for everything else the report action row can do, and Research Mode for the Cafe itself.

A shared café's reports work the same way. If someone has shared a Cafe with you, its Reports area lists the reports read-only, and Move to Workspace still works — it makes a copy in your own Workspace. The owner's café and its report are never touched. See Research Mode → Sharing a Cafe for what else a shared link shows you.

2. Every citation carries across

Open any section in the new scribe and every numbered marker like [1] is a live citation — click or hover it to see the source. At the end of each chapter, the References list shows every source exactly once, even if the report cited it several times. From anywhere in the Workspace, click References in the right rail to see every chapter's list without leaving the editor. See Citations & References for exactly how references render and what happens with older scribes.

3. Keep researching from inside the Workspace

Open the Research panel (the Research icon in the right rail) and switch to the Reports tab. Pick a café, pick a further report, choose how to map its headings, and click Append as new chapter(s) — it lands at the end of your scribe. If the new report shares a source with what's already there, that source keeps its existing number; only genuinely new sources get new ones. The same report can't be added to the same scribe twice.

The Cafe Trays tab in the same panel now pastes with citations attached: pick a café, click Insert with citation on a tray item, and the snippet lands in your open section with a numbered marker and a matching References entry. A tray item with no source behind it (a plain typed note) pastes as plain text with a small "Pasted (no source to cite)" notice instead — nothing is invented. See Workspace for the rest of the Research panel, including Web Search and Saved notes.

4. Publish

Publishing works exactly the same for a research-born scribe as for any other — one dialog, reached from the scribe's Public/Private toggle in the Scribe Hub or the book viewer:

• What is this? — a grouped dropdown (Book, Article, Whitepaper, Blog Post, Guide, Report, Story, Essay, Training Course). A scribe moved from a Research Cafe opens here pre-selected to Report, but you can pick a different type if that fits better.
• A line reading "Built from Research Cafe ‹name› · N references" appears automatically when the scribe came from a café move or import — a reader sees at a glance that there's real research behind it. N counts distinct sources, not citation markers, so a source cited five times still counts once.
• Content warnings, an age rating, author attribution, then a short list spelling out what publishing actually lets other people do (read, export as PDF, fork, translate) and one consent checkbox — then Publish.

See Library & Sharing for the full publish flow, including how it works for scribes with no research behind them at all.

5. Find it in the Library

Once published, the scribe carries a Research-backed badge on its library card and its blurb page, and you can filter the whole library down to research-backed scribes with the Research-backed toggle next to the other filters. The blurb page also shows a References (N) count. Report appears as its own option in the Type filter once at least one report-typed scribe is public. See Library & Sharing → Filters for the complete filter list.

What this doesn't cost

Moving a report, appending another one, pasting with citations, and publishing are all free — none of them make an AI call, so none of them spend tokens. The tokens you already spent researching and writing the report in the Cafe are the only cost anywhere in this path.

Tips

• The café is never the source of truth after you move. Once a report becomes a scribe, keep editing in the Workspace — re-editing the original report in the café won't update anything you've already moved.
• Use "A chapter per heading" for a report with a clear outline, and "One chapter" for a short report you'd rather keep as a single flowing section you can re-split later.
• A shared café's reports are a great way to co-write — anyone you've shared a café with can pull a report straight into their own scribe, as their own copy, without you losing anything on your side.
• Not every scribe needs to publish as "Report." If you've researched a topic but the finished piece reads more like an essay or a guide, pick that type in the Publish dialog — the provenance line still shows readers the research is real.