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Blaze Document Editor

Learn how to use the Blaze document editor to edit your docs

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Written by Vincent Vicente
Updated over 4 months ago

Doc Editor Overview

The Blaze document editor is a first-class document editor suitable for all your editing needs and includes many unique features:

Real-time editing

You can have multiple people writing and editing in documents at the exact same time, similar to Google Docs. Their profile image will appear at the top of the document when they are viewing the document, and a colored cursor will appear where they are editing.

Elements

You can add static and dynamic elements to your documents such as:

  • Images

  • Gifs

  • Tables

  • Cover Images

  • Diagrams (using Mermaid.js)

  • Dividers

  • Code Blocks

  • Table of Contents

  • Links

  • Mentions (of other documents in your workspace)

  • Embeds

    • Airtable

    • Canva

    • Figma

    • Github

    • Google Docs

    • Google Forms

    • Google Sheets

    • Google Slides

    • Google Maps

    • Jira tickets

    • Loom videos

    • Miro boards

    • X/Twitter posts

    • Vimeo videos

    • Youtube videos

Text Styles

In the Blaze document editor you can change text style elements like:

  • Headings size

  • Font (choose from 100+)

  • Font weight

  • Text size

  • Text color

  • Highlight color

  • Alignment

You can also create:

  • Ordered or unordered lists

  • Checklists

  • Toggle lists

  • Callouts

  • Quotes

History

In the right sidebar you click on the History button to see a timeline of how the document has changed and been edited.

You can:

  • Compare any two points in time

  • Make a copy of the doc from any time

  • Restore the document to a previous version

  • Highlight tracked changes between versions

AI Editing

At the bottom of every document is the Use the bottom AI toolbar for editing your document.

Or you can select any specific text to have AI edit that text.

Read Editing with AI for more.

Collaboration Sidebar

In the collaboration sidebar you can:

  • Create document-wide comments

    • Reply and thread comments

  • Create tasks

  • Track changes

  • Filter comments and tasks by their status

See Comments and Tasks for more.

Properties

You can add custom properties to documents for better organization and collaboration.

Read Properties for more information.

Miscellaneous Features

  • Columns - You can click and grab the six dots next to any element to drag it to a new place in the document, even side-by-side with other elements to create columns.

  • / Menu - Type slash to quickly pull up the insert menu to add new elements with just your keyboard.

  • Focus Mode - After you type over 100 characters, the doc editor will enter into Focus Mode where the periphery of the UI will fade so you can just concentrate on writing. You can turn this off in the document settings in the three dots (•••) menu at the top.

  • Auto-finish - Use ⌘ + Enter to have Blaze finish writing a sentence for you.

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