Refresh, versions & the stash
The editor never edits your output file directly. Every time it regenerates a document, it writes a new version into a stash. Your real deliverable only changes when you deliberately Save to output. This is what makes the editor safe to experiment in.
Refresh and Auto
Section titled “Refresh and Auto”Two ways the anonymized view gets regenerated:
- Auto (the switch in the toolbar, on by default) — a beat after each edit, the output regenerates so the view tracks your list live. Make a change, watch the document update.
- Refresh (the button) — regenerate on demand. Useful with Auto off, when you want to batch up several edits and regenerate once.
Each regenerate produces a new version and lands you on the anonymized view, so you can see the result straight away.
The versions list
Section titled “The versions list”The Versions dropdown in the status bar lists every regenerated version, newest first, each stamped with its number and time. The current one is marked with a ★.
Pick any version from the list to make it current. Because each version is a real generated file, this is genuine comparison: regenerate once as Synthesize, switch to Redact and regenerate again, then flip between the two versions to decide which you’d rather send.
Why a stash, not direct edits
Section titled “Why a stash, not direct edits”- Your output file stays put until you promote a version. Nothing you do in the editor can corrupt the file you already produced.
- You can compare several attempts side by side instead of overwriting and hoping.
- Mistakes are cheap. A bad regenerate is just another version in the list; the good ones are still there.
Versions are working state, not your archive — they belong to this editing session for this document. The thing you keep is whatever you Save to output, plus the history record of the run.
How it fits with undo
Section titled “How it fits with undo”Two different safety nets, for two different things:
- Undo / redo walks back through edits to the entry list and drawn boxes.
- Versions let you jump between generated documents.
Edit the list with undo; choose between results with versions; commit one with Save to output.