Creating and Organizing Documents
Create new documents, organize them into folders with colors and icons, and duplicate, move, or delete drafts in the Dock Editor.
Everything you write in Dock lives as a document. Documents are organized in the left sidebar, where you create them, group them into folders, and manage them as your work grows.
Click the new document button in the sidebar to open a blank page. The document is created immediately and starts saving as you type, so there is no separate save step. A new document opens with the cursor ready in the body.
You can also start from the Prompt Library, which drops a prompt into a fresh document, or from the quick-start page at Start Writing Free.
Folders group related documents. Create a folder from the sidebar and give it a name. To keep larger workspaces readable, each folder can carry:
- A color, so a folder stands out at a glance.
- An icon, to label what it holds.
Drag a document onto a folder to move it in, and drag it back out to the root when you are done. Folders can be renamed and recolored at any time.
Duplicating makes a full copy of a document, including its text, citations, and formatting. Use it to branch a draft, reuse a structure you have set up, or keep a safe copy before a big rewrite. The copy opens as its own document and does not affect the original.
Move a document into a folder, out of a folder, or between folders by dragging it in the sidebar. Moving a document changes where it is filed, not its contents.
Delete a document from the sidebar when you no longer need it. Deleting removes the document from your workspace. If you want to keep an archived copy instead, duplicate it into a folder rather than deleting.
A document carries its full state with it: the text, the formatting, the citations and bibliography, the track-change marks, and its version history. Duplicating copies that state; moving preserves it. For how that state is stored, see Security and Privacy.