Solutions · Interactive publishing

Explanations readers can operate.

Some things are understood best by trying them: a loan’s amortisation, a policy’s trade-offs, how a mechanism behaves. IDOP lets a publisher ship the explanation and the working model as one document readers keep.

§ 01The problem

What tends to go wrong today.

  1. Interactive articles live only on the publisher’s website, and are lost when it is redesigned.
  2. Embedding third-party widgets brings tracking with them.
  3. There is no portable format between a static e-book and a web application.

§ 02Where IDOP fits

What the format changes.

Ship the model with the text

Narrative and interaction in one file, readable offline.

No tracking by construction

A document cannot load remote resources or contact servers without a declared, approved capability.

Stable format

Additive versioning: a 1.0 document stays valid.

§ 03Honestly

What exists today — and what does not.

Available today

  • The format, IDOP Cloud for distribution by link, and templates as starting points

Not yet

  • Publisher signatures (research)
  • A storefront or marketplace for documents (research; no commitment)

§ 04Examples

Documents of this kind.

annual-report.idop

BusinessDemonstration

Interactive report

A report where every figure can be opened to the numbers behind it, and every scenario can be tried.

diffusion-study.idop

ResearchDemonstration

Interactive scientific paper

A paper whose figures are live: readers change a parameter and the model in the paper recomputes, from the code and data that ship with it.

api-guide.idop

SoftwareDemonstration

Interactive documentation

Documentation whose examples can be run and changed in place, shipped as one versioned file.

fractions-unit-3.idop

EducationTemplate available

Interactive course

Lessons, exercises and quizzes in one file a student keeps: progress is saved inside it, and it works offline.

Open your first IDOP document

IDOP Cloud runs in the browser. Start from a template, open a file you were sent, or keep your own — no installation, and no account needed just to open a document.