Comments and feedback
Comments sit beside the words they are about. Feedback requests ask named people to read and, if you like, answer one question.
Comment
Select words on the page and press +, or use Comment on the whole page. Enter saves, and Shift+Enter makes a new line. Reply under any comment keeps a thread together, as deep as it goes. Comments, questions and version messages are Markdown.
A comment stays beside its words through later versions, moving with them. If they’re rewritten, it moves to On text that has changed, with the words it quoted.
Complete marks a thread done and folds it to one line; Reopen takes it back. A comment's author can edit it. Its author, or anybody who can edit the document, can delete it; one with replies leaves a Deleted line so the thread still reads, and anybody who can edit can delete it with its replies.
Ask for feedback
Press Ask for feedback and type one email address or more. Each person gets an email whose link opens the draft and page you were on, at its newest version. Nobody needs to sign up: they enter a code we email them. A request closes after 7 days unless you change it. Ask them to approve it has them answer Approve or Request changes; without it, they comment and press I’ve finished.
Feedback, beside Documents, lists what you have been asked. It starts on Waiting on you; press that chip for the rest, and the chip with somebody's address for what they asked.
You are mailed each answer. Ask for feedback shows where each request stands. Several requests can be open on one document, each about its own draft or pages; the one beside the page is the one about that page.
Who sees what
Share and Ask for feedback offer the same levels, and only the owner can choose above the first:
| They can | They see | They also may |
|---|---|---|
| comment | the draft on screen, from its newest version on, and any versions after it | compare and comment |
| comment, with history | every draft and version | compare and comment |
| edit | every draft and version | save versions, make and merge drafts, change the sections and typesetting, share, and ask for feedback |
The owner also renames the document, decides who may open it, downloads a copy, and deletes it.
Somebody who can only comment on a draft other than Main also sees the version it began from, so that they can see what the draft changes. They see the comments on what they can read, and those still open from before; ones completed before then stay hidden. Asking or sharing again adds a draft and never takes anything away.
Share, on the document, gives somebody access without asking them anything, changes what they can do, and removes them. What they wrote stays. A request closing leaves their access as it was.