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I love the idea behind this, and it seems like the right way. The strongest point seems to be that anything written with this can be directly verified - if I think that a table might have miscalculations, I can just go check it.

Do you have any plan of introducing templates? For example many Universities have templates with required formatting in latex/.docx, and being able to atleast have something like these would help a lot

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yes, version control is baked in so once you save a version of an article or notebook the blocks are immediately reference-able, so if you use that table in your paper, its still linked to the same block/cell in the notebook and has a unique hash allowing referencing / lookup via our API and its easy to save new versions.

We are introducing templates for sure. Word is on our roadmap but first up is to introduce LaTeX templates including user defined ones. We started mapping out the initial UI and we've got some ideas for how to allow public and community generated templates to be added to the system too, we went through these in a recent meetup, it's recorded so you can see more here => https://youtu.be/r46wN4KWPac?t=1024

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