Writing a document

A document is a rich-text page that saves as you type, organised into tabs, with live references to other docs, chips and people inline. Open one from Docs, or create a new one, and the editor takes over the whole page below the app header — the glyph in the top-left corner is your way back out.

Tabs

A document can hold up to 50 tabs, in at most one level of nesting: a top-level tab can have its own sub-tabs, but a sub-tab cannot have sub-tabs of its own. Use File → New tab or File → New sub-tab to add one (sub-tab is only available while a top-level tab is selected). On a phone the tabs show as a horizontal strip instead of the sidebar rail; if you only have one tab, there's no strip or rail at all — the document simply is that tab.

Switching tabs sends whatever you were still typing before it loads the next one, so a tab switch never strands your last few words in transit.

Saving

The editor saves automatically about half a second after you stop typing, and immediately when you click away from the editor, switch tabs, or close the tab/window. There's no save button.

If someone else saved this same tab while you were still editing it, autosave pauses and a banner appears: "Someone else saved this doc while you were editing." You get two choices, and nothing saves again until you pick one:

• Reload their version — discards what's on your screen and loads what they saved.
• Overwrite — keeps what's on your screen and saves it over theirs.

Your keystrokes are never silently lost to someone else's save, but you do have to resolve the conflict yourself before editing can continue.

Inserting content

The Insert menu adds more than plain text:

• Image… and Link… for the obvious.
• Table inserts an ordinary rich-text table (3×3 with a header row to start) that lives entirely in the document.
• Chip… embeds a reference to an existing chip (a spreadsheet elsewhere in your Docs tree) as a labelled card. This is a reference, not a live view or a copy of the data — open the chip itself to see or change its rows. (A chip embedded this way inside a cluster preview page, rather than an ordinary document, behaves differently and shows a live, editable grid instead — that's covered on the clusters and wiki page.)
• Section break drops in a horizontal rule.

Links, mentions and tags

Type @ to search for either another document or a person, and pick one from the results — GIG inserts the right kind of reference depending on which you chose. Type # to search your organisation's existing topic tags, or create a new one.

The text a link or mention shows is a snapshot of the target's title or name at the moment you inserted it — it does not update later if that document is renamed or that person's profile name changes. If you need the current name, follow the link.

A document link takes you to that document when clicked. A person mention is a snapshot of their name and nothing more — it does not send them a notification. If you need someone to actually see what you wrote, tell them directly (a message, a share link) rather than relying on the @ mention to reach them.

Saving history

Behind the scenes, GIG keeps periodic snapshots of each tab's content as you and others edit it — roughly one every ten minutes of active editing, or whenever a different person takes over writing, up to 50 snapshots per tab. This exists to make a save conflict recoverable, not to give you a click-through history browser: there is currently no button or menu in the app to view or restore an old version yourself. If you need something back that this history would contain, that's a request to support today, not a self-serve action.

File menu

Beyond tabs, File also has Rename… (or click straight into the title at the top of the page — it saves the same way the body does), Share link…, Download as PDF, a web page, or Markdown, and Move to trash.