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 * [[Roadmap]]
 
+## Mission Statement
+
+The goal of Manuskript is to ease the task of writing large projects
+by providing facilities to stay organized and track details, while
+also keeping distractions to a minimum.
+
+To maximize flexibility an open and plain text file format is used
+enabling collaboration with third-party tools.
+
 ## Contributing
 
 ### Developing