05Documentation

Writing

Click into the text and write. Formatting is done with buttons, as in Word, and there is nothing to save.

Write

In a draft, click into the text and write. You need nothing else — no “Edit” button, no “Save”.

A document after a sentence was added: the bar reads Saved and Your edits — 1 paragraph; a light strip marks the changed paragraph on its left. — After adding a sentence. The bar reads Saved and Your edits; the light strip to the left of the paragraph shows where you changed something.

While you write, watch two things on the right of the bar:

Saved — the text is safe the moment you type it. Others see it once it is published.
Your edits — your own fresh typing is not coloured, so that it does not get in your way. To see it like any other change, click Show as revisions beside it.

The bar of buttons

The document bar with the formatting buttons. — The writing buttons. Rest the pointer on any of them and it says what it does and what its keyboard shortcut is.

From left to right:

In the app	What it means
↶ ↷	Undo and redo.
B I S U	Bold, italic, strikethrough and underline. Select the text first, then click.
Paragraph style	The list that reads “Normal text” or “Heading 1”. Turns a line into a heading — or back into normal text.
Quote	A set-off paragraph: a quote, a tip, important, a warning.
Lists	Bullets, numbers, letters and checkboxes.
Insert a symbol	Characters that are not on the keyboard.
Insert a diagram	A procedure, a timeline, a mind map and more — see Diagrams and tables.
Insert (+)	A picture, a table, a table of contents, a page break, a link.
Highlight	The yellow highlighter.
Add a note to the selection	A note on the selected text — see Notes.
AI	Asks the agent to improve, shorten or translate the selected text.

On a narrower screen some of the buttons fold under More formatting.

A picture, a table, a link

Click in the text where the thing should go.
Click + (Insert) in the bar.
Choose: Image… from your computer, Table (you pick rows and columns), Table of contents, Page break or Link.

The open Insert menu with Image, Table, Table of contents, Caption, Page break, Link and more. — The Insert menu.

A new document and a folder

In the Documents panel, click + (Create) at the top, or New file at the bottom.
Choose what it will be: Document, Spreadsheet, Process diagram, Mermaid diagram or Plain text.
Type a name and click Create.

The dialog for creating a file, with the choices Document, Spreadsheet, Process diagram, Mermaid diagram and Plain text, and a field for the name. — A new file: the kind first, then the name.

Right-click a document or a folder in the panel for more actions: Rename, Move to…, Delete. The three dots that appear on a row when you point at it open the same menu.

Zen mode

The Zen mode switch in the top right corner hides the bars and the panels and leaves the page. The formatting buttons then appear over the text you select. A second click brings everything back.