The editor, autosave and version history

Once a draft exists, the editor is where you write. Every proposal section lives in one document, saved automatically as you go, with a full history you can step back through.

Autosave and the save status pill

The editor saves your work automatically as you type. A small pill next to the toolbar tells you exactly where that stands:

• Saved is the resting state. It stays showing "Saved" for as long as nothing has changed, deliberately: it never fades to blank.
• Saving… appears briefly while a save is in flight.
• Offline means your changes are only saved on this device for now; they sync once your connection returns.
• Not saved covers three different causes: the save is struggling to land, you have been signed out, or this proposal was also edited elsewhere in another tab. Whichever it is, keep the tab open until it clears.

Hover or focus the pill to see a timestamp: "Last saved" a relative time while things are healthy, or "Not saved since" a relative time once something needs attention.

Manual Save

Autosave runs on its own, but a Save button sits right next to the pill, with its keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S shown alongside it. Pressing it forces a save right now rather than waiting for autosave's own timing. It is available in every state except when the proposal is in conflict with another tab's edits, which has its own resolution flow.

Version history

Every proposal keeps a running history of snapshots. Open it from the clock icon in the utility strip:

Find and replace

Press Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F on a Mac) to open the find bar, even on a locked or read-only proposal, where jumping to a passage matters most. Type in the Find field and use Previous match and Next match to step through results, shown as a count like "3 of 12". Toggle Match case for an exact-case search. On a proposal you can edit, a Replace with field and Replace and Replace all buttons appear alongside it. Press Escape or click Close find to dismiss the bar.

Everyday editing tools

The editor toolbar and utility strip keep common document work close at hand:

• Links: select text and choose Link, or press Ctrl+K while the editor has focus. Enter a full http://, https://, or mailto: address. Click an existing link to open, edit, or remove it.
• Nested lists: start a bulleted or numbered list. On a list item that has an item above it, press Tab to nest it and Shift+Tab to move it back out. Numbered levels follow the familiar 1., a., i. pattern.
• Engineering notation: open More formatting for superscript or subscript. Type / and choose Fraction to insert a numerator over a denominator. These forms are preserved in Word exports.
• Body word count: the utility strip shows the document body's word count. Hover or focus it for exact word and character counts. Section titles are not included because they sit outside the editable body text.
• Invisible characters: open Editor view options, then choose Show invisible characters to reveal spaces, non-breaking spaces, tabs, paragraph endings, and hard line breaks. This view starts off each time you open the editor and does not change the saved document.

For the full toolbar guide, including tables, page breaks, image placeholders, and alignment, see Formatting in the editor.

Move a block

In an editable draft on desktop, hover beside a paragraph, heading, whole list, table, page break, or image placeholder to reveal its grip, then drag it to a new position. The drop marker shows where it will land.

For a keyboard move, place the cursor in the block and press Alt+Shift+ArrowUp or Alt+Shift+ArrowDown. A block at a section edge can move into the adjacent section; a block at the start or end of the whole document stays put. One Undo reverses one move.