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Guide

How to use the Journal.

The Journal is your public feed: notes and articles you choose to share. Follow it by URL or RSS — no reader account.

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Eight styles

One journal, eight readings.

Nord-Sud is a fictional publication. Each thumbnail is the real index — not a sketch — scaled down. Open any style full page.

  • Minimal

    Literary measure, sans-serif, silence

    Pairs well with Encre

  • Editorial

    Drop cap, optical serif — quality daily

    Pairs well with Canvas

  • Magazine

    XXL display, grid, review rhythm

  • Notebook

    Ruled page, mono meta — field dispatch

    Pairs well with Argile

  • Chronicle

    Dateline first, dispatch feed

    Pairs well with Nuit

  • Review

    Serif cover, austere catalog — contemporary review

  • Front page

    Masthead, lead, secondaries, briefs

    Pairs well with Presse

  • Academic

    Preprint: abstract, DOI, numbered figures, margin notes

    Pairs well with Sauge

Two addresses

Local and cloud are not the same.

Most confusion starts here. Remember:

/blog

A preview on this device. Useful to check layout. Not the URL to share.

/u/your-username

Your public cloud journal. This is the address to send to a reader, colleague, or donor. The RSS feed is /u/your-username/feed.xml. On Pro+, the same journal can also be served on your own subdomain.

Walkthrough

Four steps to be read.

  1. 01

    Sign in

    Open the app and create an account (or sign in). Without an account you write locally; a shareable journal needs the cloud.

  2. 02

    Pick a username

    Settings → Account. That becomes your URL: ntilia.com/u/your-username.

  3. 03

    Customize the Journal

    Settings → Journal: turn it on, set the title, tagline, and About section. Style also lives under appearance. On Pro+, attach a subdomain (CNAME) there to serve the journal on your own address.

  4. 04

    Publish publicly

    In the editor, publish to the journal. Drafts and private posts stay off the public feed.

Visibility

Public, private, draft.

Only public posts appear on /u/…. Private stays yours; drafts are unpublished. Unlisted is a direct link only — kept out of Google and RSS.

Versions

A correction does not erase.

Each public update archives the version that was live. Readers still see the chain, compare the texts, and read the correction note under the date. You can republish an earlier version. The editor history stays private.

Cite

APA, RIS, JATS: what are they?

Under every public article, the Cite block offers three styles to copy and two files to download. Readers take whatever their tool expects; nothing to configure on your side.

APA
American Psychological Association style, common in social sciences and psychology. One line ready to paste into a bibliography: author, year, title, journal, URL, access date.
Chicago
Chicago Manual of Style, the reference in history, humanities and the press. Same information as APA, different order and punctuation.
BibTeX
The bibliography format of LaTeX. An @article entry to paste into a .bib file; LaTeX then formats the reference in the document’s style.
RIS
A reference-exchange file (Research Information Systems). One click opens it in Zotero, Mendeley or EndNote, which files the article in the reader’s library with its metadata and public sources.
JATS
Journal Article Tag Suite: the NISO-standard XML used by scholarly publishers and PubMed Central. It describes the article — author and ORCID, dates, abstract, license, sources — in the form a journal or archive expects.
DOI
Digital Object Identifier: the persistent identifier of scholarly publications. From Pro, “Deposit on Zenodo” sends the PDF and the Markdown source to CERN’s archive and gets a DOI; it heads the Cite block and replaces the URL in APA, Chicago, BibTeX, RIS and JATS. The deposited copy outlives nTilia.

Sources marked “visible on the journal” are included in RIS and JATS; the chosen license appears under the block. The page also carries Highwire tags (citation_title, citation_author…) that Google Scholar and Zotero read directly.

Follow

An RSS feed, not a network.

Every public journal exposes /u/username/feed.xml. A reader subscribes in Feedly, NetNewsWire, or Mail — new posts arrive with no likes, no push, no nTilia account. One item per article, in the journal’s language.

Profile

Make your feed recognizable.

Journal title, tagline, name, role, organization, or sensitive-field mode (journalists and missions): these fields power the home page and the About button.

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Write in the editor, publish publicly, then open My journal in the sidebar.

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