What Colletta does today
The features below are available in the private beta today. Planned features are listed separately at the end.
Write together
Several people can type in the same document at once, see where everyone is, and never merge anything by hand.
- Live cursors
- Everyone's cursor shows in the text with their name, and the header lists who has the document open.
- Follow mode
- Follow a teammate and your view moves with theirs, which helps when someone is walking you through a document.
- Quiet reconnects
- A short network drop reconnects on its own. Edits made while you're cut off are kept on your device, when your browser allows storage, and sent when you're back.
- Who wrote what
- Turn it on in History to color each person's text.
What went well
Search shipped a week early
Comments are anchored to the text
To do: Write up the release notes
Markdown, formatted as you type
Live view looks like a finished document and shows the markdown only on the line you're editing.
- Three views
- Live, Source, or Split with a preview that scrolls alongside. Each person picks their own.
- Tables, tasks and more
- Tables, callouts, footnotes, task lists and images, all written as markdown text.
- Code blocks
- Highlighting for more than 20 languages, with a copy button in Live view and Split.
- Math and diagrams
- Write formulas and Mermaid diagrams as text, and see them drawn in Live view and Split.
- Long documents
- Fold a section under its heading, jump around with the outline, and keep an eye on the word count.
Interview notes
We keep our docs in git, but nobody edits them together.
Wants plain files and live editing
- Uses make docs to publish every Friday
Write faster
Most things have a keyboard shortcut. For everything else there's a toolbar and a slash menu.
Read the guide: Write faster-
Slash menu
Type / to insert a heading, a table, a callout or a code block.
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Shortcuts
Ctrl+/ (Cmd+/ on a Mac) lists every shortcut, and the toolbar shows them when you hover.
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Tables from the keyboard
Add, move, delete and sort rows and columns without reaching for the mouse.
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Smart paste
Paste from Word, Google Docs or a web page, and the formatting turns into markdown.
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Small helpers
Emoji with a colon, today’s date with /today, and find and replace with regular expressions.
Link your documents
Link to another document or straight to one of its headings. Renaming or moving a document never breaks the link.
- The [[ picker
- Type [[ and pick a document, or one of its headings.
- Linked from
- Every document shows which documents link to it.
- Hover cards
- Hover a link to see the document's current title before you open it.
- Links to fix
- If a linked heading is renamed or deleted, the link is flagged, and Update link fixes it in one click.
Before we ship
Done: Dates agreed in Launch plan › Timeline
To do: Check Security review with Grace
Find your way around
Folders when you want structure, and search when you'd rather not click through them.
Read the guide: Find your way around-
Folders
Arrange documents in a folder tree and move them by dragging.
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Search
Search finds the words you type, and related pages about the same thing, even when they use different words.
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Quick open
Press Ctrl+P and type a few letters of a title. Ctrl+Shift+P opens a list of commands.
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Home page
Pick up where you left off, and see what others edited recently.
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Templates
Start from Meeting notes, Decision record or Project brief, or make any published document a template.
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Favorites and duplicates
Star the documents you use most, and copy one to start the next.
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Import
Bring in a zip of markdown files or an Obsidian vault, with a preview of warnings and unresolved links first.
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My tasks
Mention someone in a task-list item to assign it, with a date as its due date. If they can open the document, the open task is listed in their My tasks.
Access and security
Decide who can read and who can edit. Changes take effect at once, even in documents people have open.
- Roles
- Invite-only workspaces, with Owner, Admin, Member and Viewer roles. Viewers can't edit the text, but can comment and suggest changes by default.
- Drafts
- A draft is visible only to its author and co-authors until it is published. If the author leaves the workspace, its Owners can recover the draft.
- Sharing
- Give a person or a team Full access, Can edit or Can view on one folder or document.
- Restricted folders
- Keep a folder or document to a few people, besides the workspace Owners and people with Full access to a folder above it, and see who loses access before you confirm.
- Share a page with anyone
- A public link lets anyone read one document without signing in. Public pages ask search engines not to index them, and Stop ends the link at once.
- Immediate access changes
- Remove someone and the document turns read-only in front of them.
- Sign-in and two-factor
- Changes to who can see what need a two-factor sign-in, whoever makes them.
Hiring plan
Two roles open in the first quarter.
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History and downloads
Versions are saved as you go, and you can download any document you have permission to export as plain markdown.
Read the guide: History and downloads-
Automatic versions
Versions are saved while you work, with no button to remember.
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Named versions
Name the ones that matter, like "Sent for review". Automatic cleanup never removes a named version.
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Restore
Look back at any version, compare it with today, and restore it. A restore can be undone.
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Trash
Deleted documents stay in the trash for 30 days.
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Plain markdown
CommonMark with GitHub Flavored Markdown, plus a few extensions written as text, like callouts.
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Downloads and print
One document as .md, or a folder or a whole workspace as a .zip of the documents you can export, with the images uploaded to them. Drafts are left out unless you include your own. Or print a document as a PDF.
Comfortable to read and use
Set it up the way you like to read, use it from the keyboard, and pick it up on a phone.
Read the guide: Comfortable to read and use-
Themes
Light, dark, or whatever your system uses. The light theme has a warm, paper-like background.
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Text
Sans serif, serif or monospace text in three sizes, and three color themes for code.
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Accent color
Pick your own accent color. It only changes your screen.
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Keyboard and access
Everything works from the keyboard, checked against WCAG 2.2 AA with automated tests.
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Phones
Layouts for phones and narrow windows.
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Reduced motion
When your system asks for reduced motion, transitions are instant and the follow highlight stays still.
Planned
These features are planned and not available yet.
- Export and backup to GitHub, and exports you can restore
- Exports that rewrite links between documents for other tools
- Sign in with Google or GitHub
- Team spaces with team admins and guests
- Search filters by folder, author and date
Write the next document together.
Access is by invitation during the private beta. Join the waitlist for a place, and read the docs to see how Colletta works.
Comments, mentions and notifications
Talk about the text, suggest changes without making them, and bring people in with @.
Read the guide: Comments, mentions and notificationsComments on the exact words
Select some text and comment. The thread stays attached to those words while people edit around them.
Threads
Reply, resolve a thread once it's settled, and reopen it if it isn't.
Suggest changes, stay plain markdown
Propose new words in place, and someone who can edit the document accepts or rejects them. Suggestions live beside the text, so downloads stay plain markdown.
Mentions
Type @ to mention a person, a team or a date. Mentions show as chips with current names.
Notifications
Mentions and replies to your threads arrive in the bell, inside the app.
People and teams
Person cards, profile pages and team pages show who is who.