I’m a professor and I’ve recently moved my entire writing workflow (exams, papers, reports) from LaTeX/Overleaf to Typst. It’s faster, modern, and much more efficient for academic work.
While ClickUp is amazing for my planning at the university, I still feel the friction of switching between ClickUp and my writing environment. I believe a Typst integration (similar to what we have for Google Docs or even just a specialized embed/preview) would be a massive productivity boost for the scientific and academic community here.
Does anyone else here use Typst? How are you currently managing your technical documents alongside your ClickUp tasks?
IMPORTANT: It is crucial to emphasize that scientific research involves sensitive data and intellectual property. Therefore, this integration should prioritize security—perhaps through end-to-end encryption—ensuring that ClickUp’s internal search doesn’t index the content of Typst documents unless explicitly authorized. On the other hand, leveraging AI to assist in generating templates or automating formatting based on institutional standards would be of immense value to the academic community.
I’ve also created a feature request on Canny, so feel free to upvote it there if you agree!
Asking “Does anyone else here use Typst?” here on the Typst forums makes it seem like you’ve copy/pasted this from somewhere else. Is there any requirement from the Typst side of things to create this integration? Is this post simply informing the forum of the request you made elsewhere? Is this a way to spread the good word of ClickUp?
Speaking of, I checked out the website and I didn’t see a concise description of what it actually is. As a user of Typst, is ClickUp somehow very useful to me already? How is it that you are using it?
I guess my main reaction to your post is - “what is the intention of this?”.
Hi there! Sorry if the post felt a bit ‘copy-pasted’—I’m actually a professor at PUC-Campinas and I’m currently reorganizing my entire academic workflow. My intention isn’t to promote ClickUp, but to find a way to bridge the gap between my project management and my actual writing.
To answer your questions:
What is ClickUp? It’s a project management tool (like the classic Jira). For a professor, it’s where I track my syllabus, exam deadlines, and research milestones.
Why the integration? Currently, I plan my tasks in ClickUp but have to manually switch to Typst to write some docs and back. If I could at least see my Typst document status or a preview within my task manager, it would prevent ‘context-switching’—which is a huge focus-killer.
Requirement from Typst side? Probably not a technical requirement, but perhaps an API-based bridge or a better way to embed the web editor.
I’m just a fan of both tools trying to make them talk to each other so I can spend less time managing windows and more time writing my docs. No spam intended, just a researcher looking for a more seamless workflow!
I’m all for having options for ways to combine tools in useful ways. I’m not sure how likely an integration with the Typst webapp is, but since the engine is open source I think the technical challenges would be relatively low. Licensing would be important to figure out.
Sorry if I came off as a bit defensive, I just didn’t get it.