Writing a document

You have picked a type and the canvas is open with the cursor already in the writing area. From here the job is to get the draft down. There is no Save button and nothing to set up first, so you can start typing straight away.

The canvas

The header carries a breadcrumb showing the document type, plus the project it belongs to if it is filed in one. Below that sits the title, and below that the writing surface for your type. A single body type gives you one flowing area; the two sequence types give you step cards, covered in Building a sequence.

Some types add a live meta line under the title. An Article reads Empty draft until you write, then switches to a word count and read time. A LinkedIn Post shows characters, words, and read time under its post card.

The title

Every new document opens with a placeholder name for its type: Untitled message, Untitled email sequence, Untitled LinkedIn DM, Untitled LinkedIn sequence, Untitled LinkedIn post, Untitled social post, or Untitled article.

Once you have written enough and paused for a few seconds, unpitch replaces that placeholder with a name taken from what you wrote. It only ever replaces the untouched placeholder. Rename the document yourself even once, and it is never auto named again.

To rename it, click the big title on the canvas and type. Clicking away commits it, and there is no separate save for the title. Rename in the three-dot menu opens a dialog that does exactly the same thing. Clearing the title shows Untitled in the field while you edit, and committing an empty title gets you Title cannot be empty.

The panel beside your draft

To the right of the canvas is a panel with two tabs, Quality Check and Simulation. Both read whatever is on the canvas right now. Findings come back underlined in your own text, with a card explaining each one, and Copy with all feedback at the foot of the panel copies the checked text together with every finding so you can paste it into another assistant.

The panel toggle in the header reads Show assistant or Hide assistant, and ⌘J does the same thing. You can drag the panel wider or narrower, and it remembers both its width and whether it was open the next time you come back.

On a brand new canvas both tabs are visible but neither can run. They read Nothing to check yet and Nothing to read yet while the canvas is empty, then Not checked yet and No reaction yet with "opens on this draft when you step out of it" once you have typed. Click anywhere outside the canvas and the app moves you to the document's own page, where both become usable.

Every document type gets these same two tabs. There is no per-type menu of named checks.

The three-dot menu

The menu in the header, labelled Actions, holds everything else you can do to the document:

• Rename opens the rename dialog and confirms with a Renamed toast.
• Move to project opens a picker offering No project plus every project in the workspace. Moving confirms with Moved to project, and choosing No project says Removed from project.
• Mark as ready and Unmark set and clear the Ready mark. See Autosave and the Ready mark.
• Archive hides the document from the sidebar, the document list, and project trees. The item then reads Restore, so it is reversible.
• Delete removes the document permanently, along with its saved versions and its check results. The confirmation is headed Are you sure? and warns that the action cannot be undone. After deleting from the canvas you are sent back to the home screen.

A History button also appears in the header, but only once the document has at least one saved version. See Version history.

Limits worth knowing

You can write and save a document of almost any length, but a Quality Check or a Simulation will refuse one that is too big: 50 steps, 10,000 characters per step, and 50,000 characters overall. A single body document counts as one step. A long article is the usual way to meet the overall limit.

If a document you open has been deleted, or belongs to a workspace you cannot see, you get Document not found with a Go home button. The two cases look identical on purpose. If it merely fails to load you get Couldn't load document with a Try again button, which is worth pressing before anything else.