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New to livedocuments?

All 7 getting started guides

About livedocuments

Get to know livedocuments: what it is, who it helps, and the ideas behind a free, open canvas.

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Tips and Tricks

Work faster with the shortcuts, hidden features, and small habits experienced users rely on.

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Editor Guides

Everything in the editor

In-depth guides for every part of the editor, grouped by where you find it.

Pages

Build documents out of pages: articles, slide decks and infographics, with layouts, backgrounds and exports.

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Canvas

Work with what is on your pages: place, select, link, layer, rotate, animate, lock and theme elements, undo changes, and start from templates.

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Palette

Your launchpad for everything on a page: every element and palette setting explained.

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Selection Modes

The pointer modes at the top of the palette: Select, Hand, Format Painter, Laser, Spotlight, Slide Deck, and Isometric.

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Tabs

Keep a whole project in one document: organise, link, and move between tabs of pages.

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Collaboration

Work together in real time: comments, assigned actions, live presence, teams and sharing.

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Explorer

Organise everything you build: one library, shared by every liveworkspace app, that keeps your documents, folders, teams and images easy to find and manage.

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User Interface

Get your bearings in the editor: the panels, toolbar, context menus, the Map, zoom and tab bars, quick controls, and power user mode.

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Tools

Do more with less effort using the editor helpers: zen mode, light and dark mode, Markdown import, and cleanup.

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Search Panel

Find anything in seconds: jump to any document, folder, team, tab, or element, and add new elements to the canvas.

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Your Account

Your account and your data

Who you are to livedocuments, where your work lives, and the promises that cover it.

Account and Data

Stay in control of your work: how guest access, signing in, syncing, exporting, deletion, API tokens, connecting AI tools, and email notifications work.

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Privacy and Security

Know exactly how your documents are stored, what we collect, and how to keep shared links safe.

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Supported Devices

How livedocuments works on a computer, a tablet, and a phone, and what to expect on each.

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Policies

How to report a vulnerability. The terms and privacy policy are liveworkspace's, on liveworkspace.app.

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Build and Run

Developers

Drive livedocuments from your own code, scripts and AI tools.

Developers

Call the livedocuments REST API from your own scripts or the command line: authentication, worked examples, the CLI and developer tools, errors and limits, and the OpenAPI reference.

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Still Stuck?

We'll help you get going again

Most problems have a quick fix in Troubleshooting. If yours doesn't, tell us and we will look into it.

Troubleshooting

Get unstuck fast with fixes for the most common editor and collaboration problems.

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