Vitae
A Mac app, beside Manuscripts
Vitae keeps the scholarly record. The long CV, the selected CV, the annual report, the dossier, and the statement are editions drawn from that library. Capture an activity once, with its evidence, and the documents stay true to it.
† On your Mac. Where a university requires Interfolio for merit, you still submit there. Vitae is the library you copy from, and the source for the proposals, awards, and applications that are yours to write.
A specimen career, invented for this page. Choose a desk. In Report, choose an edition. The lines are the same records, cut a different way. Select a line and the library names its source.
Collect · inbox
Nothing here is a record yet. Collect is the place a year lands before it is typed: a notice, a syllabus, a line you do not want to reconstruct in June.
Curate · the open record
Evidence on the record: the accepted manuscript, and the notice that names the volume. A later import of an old CV adds a snapshot. It does not overwrite this one.
Generate · research statement
Leila Moreau studies what happens to primary care when the ordinary clinic is not there. Her 2024 article, After the clinic closed, follows missed visits in a coastal city. The work is supported by a Northwater Research Fund project grant (2023–2026), on which she is the nominated principal applicant.
Report · an edition
Leila Moreau, PhD
Department of Population Health · Northwater University
Specimen data. Northwater University, the journal, the fund, and Dr. Moreau are not real. The desks are.
Inspiration drawn from many other apps. Compatible where possible.
Degrees, credentials, appointments, leaves, affiliations, honours. The biography and the narrative CV live here too, as statements, not as a form you retype.
Publications, presentations, funding, proposals, patents, artistic work. A paper’s route still belongs to Manuscripts. In Vitae the paper is one line of a career, with the notice of acceptance attached.
Courses, programs you built, students and staff you supervised. A course can carry the term and the role. The syllabus stays on the record.
Committees, editorial work, peer review, community contributions, memberships, advisory roles. The unglamorous year, kept while it is still a year and not a pile.
A report is a saved definition: which types, which dates, which highlights, which order. Preview is the PDF. Word is the editable file, and its pagination can differ. The library is not modified by the export.
Education, appointments, funding, publications, talks, teaching, and service. The long document.
The same career, limited to the snapshots you highlighted for this report.
Work that overlaps a reporting period. Ongoing appointments remain. Undated items stay out until a date is recorded.
A starting structure for a short biographical sketch. Not a verified sponsor form, and not a claim of NIH or NSF compliance.
Courses, curriculum, and supervision, for the reader who asked about the classroom.
Editorial work, review, committees, and the rest of the service the year actually contained.
They are meant to sit beside each other. One follows a paper. The other keeps the career that paper belongs to. Vitae is at vitae-app.app.
Flagship
Draft, submit, revise. Each paper a jacket: authors, versions, the journal it is with, the comments that came back. A loop, not a line. No cloud. No seats.
manuscripts-app.com →Companion
The appointment, the grant, the course, the student, the service, the statement. Documents drawn from that library, on your Mac. Merit, when a university binds it to Interfolio, is still submitted there.
vitae-app.app →I built Manuscripts because a paper in revision is a particular kind of mess: four cover letters, a deadline, a formatting rule I was sure I had saved. The rest of the job was a different mess, and it did not belong on a manuscript’s jacket.
The talk from March. The course from last winter. The grant that is still open. The student who is halfway through. The paragraph a biosketch needs, which is the same paragraph an award application needed in the autumn, told slightly differently. Faculty activity systems know this list. They also ask you to sign into a campus account to record one talk, so the year piles up unrecorded.
Vitae is the desk for that year. You capture the activity while you remember it, and you keep the source document with it. When a CV or a proposal or a dossier is due, you draw an edition. If merit review at your university runs through Interfolio, you still complete it there. Vitae does not pretend to be that submission. It makes the copy a copy.
Jamie Forrest, PhDVancouver
Manuscripts follows one paper: the version, the journal, the round of review. Vitae keeps the career around those papers. Appointments, funding, teaching, supervision, service, and the statements you write from them. Use Manuscripts when the job is the submission. Use Vitae when the job is the record those submissions belong to.
No. Where a university binds merit review to Interfolio, that submission still happens there. Vitae keeps the year current, with the facts and the source documents, so filling the required system is copying. For grant proposals, other proposals, award applications, and consultancy applications, Vitae is the library those documents are drawn from.
On your Mac. Import and Generate call a model only when you ask, with a key of your own, and only for the document or the records you have checked. A report can include a saved statement without an API key.
Editions export to PDF and to Word. The PDF is the fixed layout, and the preview is that PDF. Word keeps editable headings and paragraphs. Starters include an academic CV, a selected CV, an annual activity report, a grant biosketch, a teaching dossier, and a service summary. The biosketch is a structure, not a certified sponsor form.
It is not supposed to. Generate sends the records you checked and the instructions you wrote. A claim has to quote a checked record. A year in the draft has to appear in one. If the instructions ask for something the checked set does not contain, the draft says so instead of filling the gap. You cannot save until a fabricated title, date, role, or organization is gone.
Yes. Import reads a PDF, Word, plain text, or rich-text document. You review every extracted item, correct it, or skip it. Confirming a match adds a snapshot to the existing record. A new item becomes a new record. An ambiguous match waits for you. Existing snapshots stay as they were.
Not the plan. Manuscripts is built the same way: one platform, carefully. Vitae is a Mac app.
Not yet. The app is on the desk. When a download is offered, it will be posted at vitae-app.app. Manuscripts, which you can buy now, stays at manuscripts-app.com. If you want a note when Vitae is ready, write to [email protected].
The address
This is the address. Manuscripts stays the flagship, at manuscripts-app.com. Vitae lives in its own house, beside it.
A tree from an open book. The book is the record. The tree is what you draw from it: a CV, a year, a statement, another application. Same roots.