Communicate science with Shorthand

Create beautiful science stories that can be discovered and enjoyed by your entire audience, including those who can’t access or read PDFs.

• Unlike PDFs, Shorthand stories are search-engine friendly, meaning they are discoverable in Google.
• Add your third-party analytics tool and get real data on how your content performs.
• Unlike PDFs, stories built with Shorthand can be read by everyone, including those using screen readers.

The best science communication requires collaboration.

• Shorthand provides a collaborative workspace, which means you can invite marketers, communications professionals, designers, academics, researchers… even managers.
• Invite marketers, communications professionals, designers, academics, researchers… even managers.
• With clear permission controls, grant access to those who need it.

Build beautiful content that can be read on small phones, giant monitors, and everything in-between. No more pinching or zooming to read that PDF.

• Delight the over 50% — and growing — of web users on mobile devices.
• Shorthand stories automatically work on all screen sizes, with in-app guidance on how to optimise your media.
• Easily check content on all screen sizes prior to publication with Shorthand’s preview feature.

Make the most of your data visualisations, no matter how you built them.

• Shorthand supports most leading data visualisation platforms.
• Embed charts and graphs from Flourish, Tableau, Microsoft BI, Google, Mapbox, and more.
• Embed your bespoke data visualisation using our custom code block, with support for custom HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.