Collaboration

Doczoid is multiplayer. Everyone on a Team can work in the same document at the same time, see one another, discuss in context, and rely on an automatic history of every change. This page covers the collaboration features that make that work.

Real-time editing

Open a Doc or Zoid with a teammate and you edit it together, live. Text edits, diagram changes (adding, moving, restyling shapes and edges), and slide changes all broadcast to everyone viewing the document as they happen.

Your work is saved automatically:

• Auto-save persists changes shortly after you stop typing or drawing — no save button to remember.
• A save status indicator shows the current state: Saved, Saving…, Unsaved, or Error.

Presence — who's here

Doczoid shows you who else is in the document in real time.

• Active-user avatars appear in the header. A small colored dot on each avatar shows what that person is doing:
  • Editing text (in a Doc),
  • Editing diagram,
  • Editing slide (in a Zoid), or
  • Viewing (present but not editing).
• Online vs. offline — teammates with access are shown as online (highlighted) or offline, so you know who's around.
• Live cursors — on a Diagram or slide, you see other people's cursors move in real time, each labeled with their name and a distinct color.

Comments

Discuss your work in context with comments.

• Chat comments live in a side Comments panel for general discussion.
• Pinned comments attach to a specific spot on a Diagram or slide — drag a comment onto the canvas to pin it ("Drag to canvas to pin").
• Text comments anchor to a specific block in a Doc, and can quote the exact passage you selected.
• Threaded replies — reply to any comment to keep a conversation together; the comment shows its reply count.
• Resolve a comment when it's handled; resolved comments tuck away into a collapsible Resolved section and can be reopened.

Comments sync in real time, so a teammate's reply appears the moment it's posted.

Version history

Every document keeps an automatic version history, so you can look back and restore earlier states.

• Automatic versions are captured as you edit and after periods of inactivity.
• Manual versions can be created on demand with Cmd+Shift+S (Ctrl+Shift+S elsewhere), optionally with a name.
• Versions use semantic version numbers (like v1.2.5); the size of a change influences how the number increments.
• Each entry records who made it, when, and how it was created (auto-save, manual save, or restore point).

Open the Version History panel to browse versions, preview any one, and restore it. If restoring would affect PortalSnips that have changed since that version, Doczoid surfaces a restore analysis warning so there are no surprises.

PortalSnips can be locked to a specific document version — see PortalSnips — which keeps a reused snippet stable even as its source keeps evolving.

Notifications

A notification bell keeps you informed, with an unread badge and a dropdown list. You're notified when:

• A document you own is updated by a collaborator,
• Someone comments on your document or replies to your comment,
• A team invitation is accepted, or
• A team invitation is declined.

Click a notification to jump straight to the relevant document. You can mark all as read or clear all from the bell.

Attribution

Documents and versions record who created them and when, and comments and notifications track their author — so there's always a clear trail of who did what.

Related

• Teams & Sharing — who can collaborate, and how to invite them.
• PortalSnips — reuse content with version-locked stability.
• Docs and Zoids — the documents you collaborate on.