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Revision History

How to keep track of things over time and roll back your writing

1 min read Last updated Dec 2, 2024

No one is happy when their work is lost, so we regularly back up your work.

It also is useful when you can look at earlier versions of a scene to see how your work has evolved over time and even bring back bits and pieces that you might have deleted.

This also means you can undo and/or redo any mistakes.

Versioning

The system keeps a history of all your changes for the following items:

  1. Snippet content

    snippet content versioning

  2. Codex: description

    Codex description versioning

  3. Codex: notes

    Codex notes versioning

  4. Scene summary

    Scene summary versioning

  5. Scene content

    Scene content versioning

  6. Custom prompt instructions

    Custom prompt instructions versioning

Opening the Revision History allows you to restore any version at any time.

You can typically find the Revision History near the field or a context menu next to it.

Restoring a Version

Clicking on one of the history buttons, a modal with the version history will open up.

Restore version interface

Here you can see all the versions that are available for the item you are looking at. Once you select your desired version, the contents pane will show you the state of the item at that point in time. The restore version button will replace the current version with the selected version.