Writing in documents

Documents are for longer writing. You'll find them all on the Documents page, and you can also put a document on a board as a card.

Formatting as you type

You can format with simple shortcuts. Type one at the start of a line, then a space:

• #, ## or ### for a heading
• - or * for a bullet
• 1. for a numbered list
• > for a quote
• [] for a checklist
• --- for a divider
• three backticks for a block of code

These only work at the start of a line. If you type # Heading halfway through a sentence, the # stays as text. That's on purpose.

Inside a line, formatting kicks in as soon as you close it. Wrap words in two asterisks for bold, underscores for italic, two tildes for strikethrough, or backticks for code. For a link, put the text in square brackets and the address straight after it in round brackets.

The slash menu

Type / to open a menu with the same blocks, plus callouts, toggles, tables, images and photos.

Lists and pictures

Press Tab to nest a list item and Shift-Tab to move it back out.

To add a picture, type /image, paste it, or drop it in. Type /photo to search Unsplash for one.

Finding your way around

Long documents show an outline of their headings at the side.

Exporting a document

You can export any document as Word (.docx), PDF, PNG, Markdown or plain text.

One small thing

If you open a new document and leave it empty, it's discarded rather than saved.