# Asakiri Docs

> Documentation for Asakiri Studio, the local-first course editor, including the course data structure.

## Docs

- [Asakiri Studio](https://docs.asakiri.com/index.md): A local-first desktop app for building deep, structured language courses.
- [Quickstart](https://docs.asakiri.com/quickstart.md): Install Asakiri Studio and open your first course project.
- [Overview](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/overview.md): The content-first model behind every Asakiri course.
- [Course structure](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/course-structure.md): Units, lessons, and parts: the outline learners move through.
- [Content records](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/content-records.md): Collections, field definitions, and records: the reusable source of truth.
- [Media](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/media.md): Assets: local binary files with technical metadata.
- [Bindings and fragments](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/bindings.md): How lessons and exercises reference content, media, and inline literals.
- [Exercises](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/exercises.md): Presentation and evaluation as separate concerns, across seven exercise types.
- [Reference lifecycle](https://docs.asakiri.com/data-structure/reference-lifecycle.md): How live references, usage tracking, deletion, and validation behave.
- [Build on Asakiri](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/overview.md): What you need to read a course (learner app) or read and write one (creator app).
- [Project layout](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/project-layout.md): The directory tree of a course project and the project.json manifest.
- [File formats](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/file-formats.md): The JSON for collections, records, assets, lessons, parts, compositions, and exercises.
- [Rich-text documents](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/rich-text.md): The Tiptap document format and the custom nodes that embed content and media.
- [Resolving and rendering](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/resolving-and-rendering.md): The learner-app contract: turn bindings into values, render fragments, and grade responses.
- [Reader and writer](https://docs.asakiri.com/build/reader-and-writer.md): Assembling a course reader or writer, with versioning and what is still unspecified.