Editor Overview
A tour of the Dock Editor interface. The document sidebar, the writing surface, the footer toolbar, and the panels that handle citations, AI, voice, and version history.
The Dock Editor puts the writing first. The page in the center is where you type, and everything else is arranged around it so that tools are one click away without crowding the words. This guide walks the interface so the rest of the docs make sense.
The left sidebar lists your documents and folders. From here you create a new document, open an existing one, and organize work into folders with their own colors and icons. The sidebar is where you move between drafts; the editor in the center always shows the one you have open.
See Creating and Organizing Documents for folders, duplicating, and moving documents.
The center is the document itself. Type and the text flows like any editor you already know. A few things make it specific to Dock:
- Slash commands. Type
/on a new line to open a menu of blocks: headings, lists, tables, code, math, images, and more. See Slash Commands. - A floating toolbar. Select text and a small toolbar appears for bold, italic, links, color, and the other inline formatting. See Formatting Text.
- Inline AI. Autocomplete suggestions appear in gray as you write, and AI actions run on a selection. Nothing enters the document until you accept it.
The footer runs along the bottom of the document. It is the control strip for the AI and writing tools:
- The mic button starts Voice Mode.
- The citation button opens the citation search to insert a source.
- Counters show your word count and confirm that the document is saving automatically.
- Undo and redo sit here too, alongside their keyboard shortcuts.
Several tools open as panels that slide in from the right, so they sit next to your writing instead of covering it:
- The AI panel for running actions on a selection and reading the result before you keep it.
- The citation library for browsing, saving, and organizing your sources.
- The bibliography panel for the auto-generated reference list.
- Track changes for reviewing edits one by one.
- Version history for snapshots and restoring an earlier draft.
Each panel has its own guide in this section. Open a panel from the footer or the toolbar, and close it to get the full width of the page back.
You do not save manually. The editor saves as you write, and the footer confirms it. If you close the tab and come back, your document is where you left it. For how drafts are stored and recovered, see Troubleshooting.