Write documents together

A Cheqq document is a page you and your team write together, live. Everyone sees the others' words as they type, comments sit on the words they're about, and Cheqq writes in the same page: it can draft a section for you to keep or throw away, or outline a whole report and fill it in while you watch.

Start a document

The Docs tile reads A blank page. Write it, or ask Cheqq in it: it opens a new document straight away, ready to type, with no conversation first.

The document's name in Artifacts follows its title within about half a minute. Reports, briefs, plans, notes and letters you ask Cheqq for in chat open in the same editor.

Write in blocks

• Type / for a heading, a list, a to-do, a quote, a callout, a toggle, code, a divider, a table, an image, a footnote or an embed. The strip under the title inserts a table, an image or a to-do list in one click.
• Point at a block for + (a new block below) and its handle. Drag the handle to move the block, or select it for Turn into, Duplicate, Move up, Move down, Comment, Ask Cheqq and Delete. Cmd/Ctrl+/ opens the same menu from the keyboard.
• Select words for bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, code, a link and colours, and for Comment and Ask Cheqq. Select several lines and Turn into changes them all at once: into headings, a bulleted, numbered or to-do list, or a quote, with each line its own item. Pick what they already are to turn them back into plain text.
• Tables: point at a column or a row for its handle. Click it for its options, or drag it to move the column or row; the + bars along the right and bottom edges add one. Right-click a cell to insert, move, sort (the header row stays on top), align, colour cells, set a column's width, turn the header row on or off, or delete. Drag a column's border to resize it. A table with many columns stretches past the text and scrolls sideways; printed or downloaded, it fits the page. Alt+F10 in a table reaches its handles from the keyboard. Cheqq can now change a table the same way when you ask: add, move or remove rows and columns, colour cells and set widths, leaving every other cell as you left it.
• Images: paste a picture, drop it on the page or choose it from the strip. PNG, JPEG, GIF and WebP, up to 10 MB each and 200 in a document. Select an image to add a caption or describe it for people who can't see it. Images count towards the storage of the document's owner. Cheqq can now draw a picture into a document when you ask for one, or place one from Files.
• Colours: Cheqq can now colour or highlight words when you ask, like "highlight the key risk in yellow", using the same colours as the menu.

Embed videos, maps and more

Show the launch video, the office on a map, the latest design or the booking page right in the document, where people read about it.

• Paste a link on an empty line. A link from one of the apps below shows on the page straight away. Choose Keep as link in the note that appears if you wanted the plain link instead.
• Type / and the app's name: /youtube, /maps, /figma, /tweet, /spotify. Paste the link, or for a map type an address.
• Type /embed for any other link. It becomes a card with the page's title that opens it in a new tab.
• Ask Cheqq: "add the launch video https://… under the intro".

Each embed has Open under it, which opens it on the app's own site. Embeds show for everyone reading the document, in the app and on your phone, and they play on a published page too, for anyone who opens the link. A published page follows the reader's light or dark setting. Printed copies, PDF and Word show a link instead, and Markdown writes it as a link. In the reading view on your phone, maps, Spotify, Instagram, Pinterest and Wistia play in place, and the rest show a card that opens them.

The apps you can embed:

Share the item publicly in its own app first (a Google Doc to "Anyone with the link", a Figma file to "Anyone"), or readers see that app's sign-in page.

Footnotes

Choose Footnote from / or the insert strip, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+F. A number goes at your cursor and the note at the end of the page, and you type it right there. The numbers follow the order of the text, so they renumber themselves when you move a paragraph. Point at a number to read its note; select it to jump to the note, and again to jump back.

Footnotes arrive as real footnotes in a Word download and are numbered in the PDF and in Markdown. Each note stays with its own number, even when two people add one at the same moment or Cheqq adds sources section by section.

Link to people, dates, documents and files with @

Type @ where you're writing to open a menu. Keep typing to narrow it.

• Ask Cheqq to write or rewrite right here.
• People who can open the document, to mention them.
• Dates, from a calendar, or today, tomorrow or next week.
• Documents & artifacts and Files, to link to something in your workspace. Only things you can open are offered.

A link shows the name and icon of what it points to, and it opens over the page, so closing it (Esc, Close or your browser's Back) puts you right where you were writing. Cmd/Ctrl+click opens it in a new tab.

Each reader sees a link as they are allowed to. If someone can't open the thing you linked, their link reads Restricted with a lock and opens nothing, and the name of what it points to stays private. A file that has been moved or deleted reads Moved or deleted.

Mention someone

A mention always shows the person's name as it is now, so if they change it, every mention of them changes too.

The person you mention gets a Mentions notification, in the bell, by email and on their phone, once the mention is still there when the document next saves, about half a minute later. So a mention you type and delete straight away sends nothing. Mention the same person several times within an hour and they get one notification that counts them ("Sam mentioned you 3 times in Plan"). You're never notified about your own mentions. When Cheqq mentions someone because you asked it to, the notification says Cheqq mentioned them, for you. People can turn mentions off in Notifications.

You can only mention people who can open the document. If someone loses access later, their mention keeps their name, greyed, and pointing at it reads No longer has access. A mention of someone whose account was deleted reads @Former member.

Dates

A date reads the way you write dates: each reader sees it in their own language and format, like "Oct 25, 2026" or "25 Oct 2026".

Click a date, or move to it and press Enter, to change it:

• pick another day on the calendar;
• Add a time to make it a time on that day;
• Say Today / Tomorrow to have it read "Today", "Tomorrow", "Yesterday" or the day of the week while it's within a week, and the full date otherwise. Point at it to see the full date;
• Remove takes the date out.

Published pages, PDFs, Word files and the phone show the full date in the document's language, since they can't change from one day to the next. People who can only comment or read see the date but can't change it.

Tabs and contents

A long document reads better in parts: a plan, its budget, the risks, an appendix of raw numbers. Give each part a tab, and find your way with the contents panel beside the page. It lists the tabs, and under the one you have open, its headings.

Open and close the panel

Select Contents at the top of the page, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+\. It opens by itself when a document has more than one tab or more than one heading, and remembers your choice for each document in this browser.

On a phone, the button at the top shows the name of the tab you're in. Tap it to see the tabs and headings, and pick one.

Add, rename and arrange tabs

• Add a tab: select New tab… at the end of the list, type a name and press Enter. Press Enter without typing to call it "Untitled tab".
• Rename: click the tab's name at the top of its page and type. Or choose Rename from the tab's ⋮ menu, or select the tab and press F2. Press Esc to keep the old name.
• Icon: choose Icon from the ⋮ menu and pick one, so a tab is easy to spot.
• Reorder: drag a tab to its new place, use Move up, Move down or Move to top in its menu, or press Cmd/Ctrl+Alt+↑ or ↓.
• Duplicate: makes a copy of the tab and everything in it, right below it.

Everyone with the document open sees each change within a moment.

The first tab always goes by the document's title, at the top of its page and in the list, so renaming it renames the document. Every other tab is headed by its own name. Move another tab to the top and it takes on the document's title; move it back down and its own name returns.

Delete a tab

Choose Delete from the tab's menu, or select it and press Delete. First it says what goes with it: how many blocks and comments, and who is in it right now. For a few seconds afterwards, Undo brings it back exactly as it was, with anything typed into it in the meantime. After that, restore it from Version history.

Anyone who was in the tab moves to the next one, and is told who deleted it. Their words aren't lost: Undo or History brings them back with the tab. A document always keeps at least one tab.

Jump to a section

Select a heading in the panel to go straight to it. As you read, the panel marks the section you're in. Ctrl+Alt+Page Down and Ctrl+Alt+Page Up switch to the next and previous tab.

With the keyboard alone: move through the panel with the arrow keys, open a tab with Enter, and press Esc to go back to the page.

Link to a tab or a section

• Copy link in a tab's menu copies a link that opens the document on that tab. Point at a heading in the panel and select its link button to copy a link to that section.
• In the page, type @ and choose from Tabs and sections to put a link chip to one of this document's tabs or headings.

A chip always shows the tab's current name, so renaming a tab renames every link to it. If the tab is deleted, the link reads the document's name and opens the document.

Download one tab

Choose Export this tab from a tab's menu, or open Export and pick This tab instead of Whole document. You get just that tab as Word, PDF or Markdown, named after the document and the tab. The whole document keeps each tab on its own pages.

When you publish a document of several tabs, its page starts with a Contents list that jumps to each tab. The list isn't printed.

When Cheqq writes in another tab

Ask Cheqq to add an appendix, or to fill in a tab you're not looking at, and it writes there without moving your view. A tab it adds lights up for a moment in everyone's list, its row shows Cheqq is there, and the page you're on says Cheqq is writing in that tab, with Go there. When you ask about "this tab", Cheqq knows which tab you have open.

Rewinding the turn in the document's chat takes Cheqq's tabs back out.

Choose a look and a width

Select Page at the top of the document, or choose Page from the title menu. Under Style, pick a look, each shown in its own lettering:

• Default: a classic title over clean text.
• Sans: clean lettering throughout.
• Serif: made for reading, for letters, essays and long reports.
• Mono: even, typewriter-like lettering, for runbooks and notes.

Width sets how wide the page is on screen: Standard, Wide for wide tables and side-by-side reading, or Full to use the whole window. With the contents panel open, the page keeps a comfortable width and the panel folds away first. On a phone, every width fits the screen.

Everyone with the document open sees the change at once, and so does everyone reading its published page or opening it on their phone. The look carries into PDF and Word: Word uses lettering every computer has (Calibri, or Cambria for Serif and Consolas for Mono). Width is only for the screen, and never changes how the document prints.

Only people who can edit see Page. Everyone else simply reads the page in its look.

Set up the page for printing

The Print part of the Page panel decides how the document prints and how its PDF and Word files come out:

• Paper: A4, Letter or Legal.
• Orientation: Portrait or Landscape. Landscape suits a document of wide tables.
• Margins: Narrow, Normal or Wide.
• Page numbers: a number at the foot of every page, like "2 / 5", in the PDF, in Word and when you print. New documents start with them on.

A small sketch of the sheet changes as you choose. Preview PDF shows the real pages as they'll print, with Download to keep the file. It takes a moment to make; Cancel closes it.

The same setup applies when you print a published document from your browser.

View, Comment and Edit

The three buttons at the top decide what a click does: View to read, Comment to comment without changing anything, Edit to write.

People you share a document with as commenters get View and Comment; viewers read it. A link can open the document in a mode: add ?mode=comment or ?mode=edit to its address. People who can't edit open it to read.

See who's here

Everyone with the document open shows at the top with their photo, ringed in their colour (or their initials, if they haven't added a photo), and their caret moves through the text with their name on it while they type. You only ever see other people: the same document open in your other tabs or on your phone doesn't count as a visitor. When Cheqq is writing in the document it shows up the same way, with its own caret on the block it's working on.

Cheqq writes in your document

Ask for a report, a brief, a plan, notes or a letter and Cheqq writes it as a document you can open and edit straight away. For longer work it starts with an outline: the sections appear first, each saying what it will hold, and Cheqq fills them in one at a time while you watch.

• A section waiting its turn reads Coming, with what it will cover.
• The one being written reads Cheqq is writing this…, and Cheqq's caret is on it.
• If Cheqq stops before it gets to a section, the section says so and offers Ask Cheqq to continue or Remove.

Your words always win. If you and Cheqq change the same paragraph, yours stay, and Cheqq works around them. You can keep typing anywhere else while it writes.

Sections Cheqq hasn't filled in yet read To come for everyone who can only read the document, in version history and on the phone, and they're left out of every download until they're written.

Ask Cheqq in the page

Press Space on an empty line, type @Cheqq, or choose Ask Cheqq from /, the @ menu, a block's menu or the toolbar over selected words. Say what you want and press Enter.

• On an empty line, Cheqq writes a draft right there. It appears highlighted as it's written, and isn't part of the document until you keep it.
• On selected words, the draft shows the words it would remove struck through and its own words beside them.

When the draft is ready:

• Accept (Cmd/Ctrl+Enter) puts it in the document, for everyone. For ten seconds afterwards, Undo takes it back; after that, rewind the turn in the document's chat.
• Discard (Esc) throws it away. Nothing in the document changes.
• Try again asks for another draft.
• Stop, while it's still writing, ends the request and leaves nothing behind.

If someone changes the words you asked about before you accept, the draft says so and offers Insert below instead, so their words stay.

Each request is a turn in the document's chat, marked Asked in the page, and uses your AI credits like any other turn. Cheqq answers one request at a time in a document: while its chat is still working, the box says so and offers Stop.

Comment on words or a block

Select words and choose Comment, or choose Comment from a block's menu. The words light up for everyone, and a new comment shows on other people's screens within a second. Select the words to open the thread and reply or resolve it. If the words are later deleted or rewritten, the thread stays in the comments list and says so.

Hand a comment to Cheqq

Write @Cheqq in a comment or a reply, or choose Send to Cheqq on any open thread. Cheqq reads the words the comment is about and changes that block, or the one just before or after it, then answers in the thread:

• with a link to the version it saved, when it changed the text;
• with its answer, when you asked a question and nothing needed changing;
• with a plain line, if it stopped or found nothing to change.

It always replies, and it never resolves the thread for you. For anything bigger than one block, it points you to the document's chat. A comment on the whole document can be handed over too.

Record values in a document

A document can show live values from your records, like a client's name or an invoice total. Anyone who can edit can move, duplicate or delete the block a value sits in, and undo that. Adding a new value from a record is up to the document's owner.

History

Open the title menu and choose Version history. Saves while people type are grouped, with the names of who wrote them ("· 4 saves"); choose Show every save to see them one by one, and Group saves to fold them again. Versions Cheqq writes are named for what it did. Compare with current shows what changed, and Restore brings a version back for everyone, as a new version you can undo.

Deleting a document moves it to Trash, where its owner can restore it for 30 days. See Trash.

What changed for your existing documents

Documents you made before this change convert the first time they're opened. A document with a design of its own, such as a Wapp's guide or one with a cover, callouts or columns, keeps its look: it opens as it always did and never converts. Your text, pictures and tables come with the ones that do, and the layout you had stays in version history, marked Earlier layout. If you prefer it, choose Use the earlier layout on that version and confirm. The document goes back to how it looked, and everything written since stays in history, so no words are lost. Going back is final for that document: it stays in its earlier layout.

Only documents convert. Pages, decks, designs and spreadsheets are unchanged.

When editing pauses

The line under the page says whether your words are saved. Now and then it says why they can't be. Whenever editing stops, anything you'd typed that wasn't saved yet is kept, with a button to copy it.

• Offline — retrying: your connection dropped. Keep typing; your words save by themselves when you're back online.
• Editing is paused: several changes couldn't be saved in a row. Reload the page to keep editing.
• Reload to keep editing: someone opened the document in a newer version of Cheqq. Reload to get it.

On your phone

In the Cheqq app, documents you can edit have an Edit pencil at the top. See Edit a document on your phone.

Download

Select Share, then Export, or Download… in the title menu:

• Word, an editable .docx;
• PDF, for printing and sharing;
• Markdown, a plain-text .md file. When the document has images, you get a .zip with the .md and an images/ folder. Record values are written as their values;
• Web page, the page's own files as a .zip.

Word and PDF follow the document's look and its page setup: paper, orientation, margins and page numbers. Markdown is plain text, so neither changes it.

To download just one tab, see Download one tab.

If you were typing a moment ago, a download can miss the last few seconds: the row says Your last few seconds of typing aren't in this file. with Download again.