Let’s see the Docs main page. It has all the familiar elements:
Project picker (or all projects)
Add new Doc
Doc box
Search
Let’s create a new doc:
We are met with a title and the content area. What else do we need at this stage? Let’s add a title:
So, we got a bit more. A project picker, File menu, Publish button, Chat section, tags, current editors.
Here I need to give a tip, if you like writing with a bigger font size, you can increase the zoom from the File menu or with Ctrl + plus.
Bells 🔔 and whistles 🥳
In the content area, you can get more options by typing / (slash). You will see a menu like this:
That’s one way to add elements to the doc. Another is to select some text, and a mdnu will appear above the selected text:
From there you can also spice up 🌶️ the text. And since we are got to the topic of spicing up, you can add emojis by typing : (colon). And you can add mentions by typing @.
File menu
Let’s see what the File menu has for us:
Page setup
First we have the Page setup:
This is mainly used for printing or saving to PDF, although there is the theme setting for shared docs.
Snapshots
In snapshots we see our doc in different stages — a snapshot is created automatically when new content is added. This way you can go back to a certain point in time, it’s your (and your team’s) time machine to the document.
View source
You can view the source in HTML or markdown — and update the document from the source view.
Share doc
Normally the document is private. You can make a version of it public (as HTML and as PDF).
Zoom
Zooming can be done from the File menu and with Ctrl + plus and Ctrl + minus.
Publish
If the doc is in draft state (only the creator sees it), you can publish it so that the whole team sees it.
You can print the doc from File menu or from the browser’s menus.
Collaboration
As we noticed, the top bar had current editors. This is to show, who are currently editing the document. The document can be edited by your whole team at the same time!