About

Noktic is a document and PDF form editor. It automates the redundant parts of producing long documents with attachments. It is built for professions that work with evidence, addenda, and source material. Whether you’re a grant writer with appendices, an adjuster with a claim file, or an inspector with three hundred photographs, the shape of the work doesn’t change.

The editor accommodates any kind of document. Free-form. Numbered-line paper on a fixed 28-line grid. Letterhead correspondence. Any document can be saved as a template. Margins, fonts, sizes, and spacing are configurable.

Every project you create has an evidence locker. Drag in PDFs, images, documents — anything already on your computer. Cite one while writing and Noktic drops in a Dynamic In-Text Reference that scrolls down to the file itself when clicked, to the exact page intended, within your document. Add, replace, delete, or reorder attachments at any point; every reference in the document recalculates itself. Tables of contents and tables of authorities do the same, building as the document is written. There is no retyping or renumbering involved.

Noktic doesn’t stop at documents. Bring in any fillable PDF and it auto-populates across every project. Drag any variable onto its fields, save it as a template, and reuse it. Exported documents are automatically bookmarked, and every reference stays clickable. All data stays on your computer.

Built and designed by a UX designer, researcher, and engineer who spent years in Silicon Valley, including at Google building products used by millions worldwide.

Frequently Asked Questions

About Noktic

Who is Noktic for?

Noktic is for anyone who produces a long document built on source material.

  • Structural engineers assembling a calculation package for a submittal
  • Bid and proposal writers merging a response from several authors
  • Auditors and accountants cross-referencing workpapers into an audit file
  • Environmental consultants producing a Phase I assessment with Appendix A through H
  • Insurance adjusters writing up a claim file of photographs, estimates, and records
  • Expert witnesses and IME physicians attaching records and imaging to an expert report
  • Grant writers submitting a proposal with appendices
  • Consultants delivering a strategy report with exhibits
  • Investigators — forensic, corporate, HR — attaching evidence to an investigation report
  • Inspectors filing a report with three hundred photographs

The list is not exhaustive. If the document you produce cites other documents — a due-diligence memo, a survey with photographs, a filing — the work is the same shape.

The editor and the reference system are field-agnostic. What changes between professions is the vocabulary, and that is configurable — exhibits, appendices, attachments, addenda.

What kinds of documents can I write?
Any kind. Free-form. Numbered-line paper on a fixed 28-line grid. Letterhead correspondence with recipient selection, attachment references, and a signature block. Margins, fonts, sizes, spacing, and footers are configurable. Any document saves as a template.
What is a project? My field doesn’t call it that.

A project is one specific piece of work with its own people, its own files, and its own documents. Your field probably calls it a matter, a claim, an engagement, a job, or a case. You make a new one each time work comes in.

What you call the parts is yours to set. Build your own intake sections and fields, label the reference number the way your field does — Claim No., Job No., Engagement No., Receipt No., Case No. — and choose what attachments are called: exhibits, appendices, attachments, addenda.

References and Attachments

What can go in the evidence locker?
PDFs and images — JPG, PNG, GIF, and WebP. Dragged in from anywhere on your computer.
Can a reference point to a page range, and can I change how it reads?

Yes to both. A reference can target a single page or a range — pages 14 through 22 of a 300-page report. The default wording carries both numbers, Ex. A, p. 3 (PDF p. 63), and the wording is set per document.

Each file is one attachment. A single file is not split across multiple letters.

What happens if I delete or replace a file a reference points to?
A reference whose file is gone displays as broken rather than silently pointing at nothing. Replacing a file leaves every reference to it intact.
How do the attachments come out at export?

Four ways, chosen per export:

  • Combined — one PDF: the document, then the attachments, with an index and a cover sheet for each
  • Separate files — the document as one PDF and each attachment as its own, with an optional manifest at the end of the document
  • Attachments only — the binder on its own, with index and cover sheets
  • Document only — the body, nothing appended

The index and the cover sheets are individual checkboxes in each mode.

Can I call them something other than exhibits?

Yes. The word is a per-document setting — exhibits, appendices, attachments, addenda, or anything you type. It changes the cover sheets, the content-page footers, the index heading, the PDF bookmarks, and the in-text references.

Ordering is by letter (A, B, C), the convention across professions.

How many attachments can a project hold?
There is no fixed limit. A single attachment can be made of several files, numbered continuously, and attachments compile into the export in order with cover sheets and an index.
Can I change the color of references?
Yes. In the editor, references show in blue so you can spot them at a glance. In the exported PDF they print in black body text by default — the same color as the surrounding text — so the document you send looks like an ordinary document. If you would rather keep them colored in the exported PDF, turn it on in Page Setup → Exhibit Citation Format → Advanced (“Color exhibit references in PDF”). The links stay clickable either way.

Variables and Forms

What are variables?

Every field on your intake form is a variable. A field can be a name, a number, a date, a time, a dollar amount, a paragraph, a yes or no, a pick from a list, etc. Your signature and your logo are variables too.

Put one in a document or a PDF form and it shows that project’s value, in the format you choose for that spot: a date written out in a letter and as digits on a form, a number with dashes in the text and without them in a box.

Which fields depends on your line of work. It could be the grant number and the funder, the fiscal year, the referral date, the case number, the property address, the patient, the complainant. And your own details: your title, your bar number or license. Whatever your work repeats.

Do I need to know how to code to use variables?
Not at all. You add the fields your work needs to the intake form and name them yourself. There is nothing else to set up.
What are snippets?

Paragraphs you write over and over — a methodology note, a scope description, a standard disclosure — saved once and inserted with a click. The library is searchable and tagged, and snippets work in PDF forms as well as in documents.

A snippet can hold variables, so a saved paragraph arrives already filled in for the project you drop it into.

Can I add more than one signature?
Yes. Keep as many drawn signatures as you need, each one labelled, and drop whichever a document calls for. They are variables like any other, so they work in documents and in PDF forms.
Does it fill the PDF’s real fields, or stamp text on top?
Both. Drop a variable on a field and it fills the field; drop it anywhere else on the page and it sits right there.
Does Noktic map the fields for me?
No, by design. There is no list of forms Noktic recognizes, so any fillable PDF works the same way — a county form, an agency form, a client's own paperwork. You drag your variables onto its fields once. It also means a wrong value never quietly appears on a form you already sent.
Are filled forms saved?
Yes. Drafts are kept between sessions, every field stays editable in the in-app PDF viewer, and you can add free text or sign with a drawn signature.

Your Data

Does Noktic use AI?
Noktic is privacy-first software by design. There are no language models, no generative drafting features, and no component that sends document content to a third-party service.
Is any of my work sent anywhere?
No. Nothing you write, cite, or attach leaves your computer.
Are my documents backed up?
Noktic has a built-in backup and restore, designed as a convenience for rolling back to an earlier state. It is not a substitute for your own backup practice, so keep Noktic’s folder in whatever backup you already trust.

Switching From Word

How do I bring over a document I already have in Word?
Paste the contents straight into the editor. Text and the formatting Noktic supports come across; the rest you set once in Page Setup. For a document you produce often, rebuild it once as a template and it opens ready on every project after that.
Can I export to Word?
Noktic exports to PDF. That is what carries the working links, the bookmarks, and the compiled attachments.
How long does it take to learn?

Noktic is designed for efficiency: a clean interface, short menus, and only the settings that professionals actually use. Four document fonts — Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, and Georgia — a working range of sizes, and the standard line spacings. You find what you want and get back to writing.

Every toolbar button shows its keyboard shortcut on hover — inserting references, tagging headings for the table of contents, marking citations, inserting variables — so the faster ways of working are visible from the first minute rather than buried in a menu.

Writing and Formatting

How does pagination work?
The editors are continuous — the document flows top to bottom the way a scroll of paper would, with page-break guides shown so you always know where one page ends and the next begins. Page numbers and footers are customizable and applied at export.
How much control do I have over formatting?

Page Setup controls formatting, and what is adjustable depends on the page layout you are in.

Free-form and letterhead documents. Fully customizable. Presets ship as starting points, and any change saves as your own preset.

  • Margins — top, bottom, left, and right set independently to the hundredth of an inch, with on-screen dotted guides showing where they fall.
  • Font and size — Times New Roman, Arial, Courier New, and Georgia. A document default, with individual selections sized 8–18pt.
  • Line spacing — double, 1.5, or single, per paragraph, so body text can be double-spaced while tables, block quotes, and signature blocks stay single.
  • Footer and page numbers — format (Page 1, 1, 1 of N, - 1 -, or off), alignment, front-matter Roman numerals with auto-detect, hide-on-first-page, and footer text from the document title, custom text, or blank.
  • Heading styles — H1 through H5 individually configurable for indent, bold/italic/underline, all-caps, alignment, size, marker gap, and space above and below.

Numbered-line paper. The font and page geometry are fixed, set to 28 rows to California and Nevada specification. Page Setup still controls page numbers, Roman numerals, footer text, heading styles, and an optional logo in the left margin.

If something you need cannot be expressed with these controls, reach out through the contact page — formatting gaps are treated as bugs.

Can I use my own letterhead?
Yes. Your logo, firm details, and website are set once and carried onto your documents. On numbered-line paper the logo sits in the left margin.
What is numbered-line paper?
A page mode on a fixed 28-line grid: Courier New 12pt on 8.5 × 11, with the lines numbered down the left margin — the paper pleadings are written on, to California and Nevada specification. Every line in the editor is the same line in the PDF, exported row for row.
How do the tables of contents and authorities work?

Table of contents. Select a heading you want listed and press Cmd+Shift+H. It appears in the table of contents and is tracked from then on — move it, and its page number follows.

Table of authorities. Press Cmd+Shift+C where you want the citation. A list opens at the cursor with every source you have already cited, so pick one to reuse it. For a new source, type the full citation and choose its category — Cases, Constitutional Provisions, Statutes, Court Rules, Secondary Sources, Other Authorities, or one you add yourself. It is then in the table and tracked from then on.

Both tables build as you write, and the page numbers update as the document changes. There is no separate build step and no field to refresh, so a table cannot fall out of sync with the document it describes. Edit a heading in the document and the table follows; edit it in the table and the document follows.

The table of authorities groups repeat references to one authority under a single entry, and applies passim automatically at five or more pages, with manual override. Dot leaders and hanging indents are handled.

Both tables are yours to label: rename either heading, and rename, reorder, or add categories in the table of authorities. Two layouts ship — a separate heading for each type, or cases and statutes followed by a combined “Other Authorities” heading.

Is there a word and page count?
A live word count and page count are both shown as you write. When a document has attachments, the page count breaks into three: the total, the document on its own, and the attachments.

Licensing

How does licensing work?
Each license activates one machine at a time, and you can move it to a new computer from inside the app.
Is there a trial?
Free trials are currently offered at our discretion. You can request one on the pricing page.
Can two people work on the same document?
Documents move between people as exported files. Noktic runs on one machine at a time, with no cloud sync and no simultaneous editing.