Undo and the Op Log

Undo takes back your last steps; the Op Log lists every change and can undo any one of them.

The Op Log shows every change by every person and agent. You can also go back to a point.

Undo and redo

• Undo works across blocks: typing, new blocks, deletes, moves, indents, tags, fields, tag settings, and entities shown on or removed from a page.
• One step per action. Typing in one block with short pauses is one step.
• Undo is yours, on this device. It never takes back what someone else did.
• Undoing your letters never removes letters someone else typed in the same block.
• Undo puts back only what that step changed and nobody has changed since. A later change by someone else stays.
• If the step happened on another page, undo takes you there first.
• Undo never takes away a day page, or a block that has blocks inside it.
• In a box such as search or a field value, ⌘Z is the box's own undo.

On a phone, Undo and Redo are in the search (Search in the bottom bar), and on the keyboard bar while you type (when Fennick is opened from the Home Screen). See Phones.

The Op Log

Open Op Log in the sidebar, or from the command menu. It lists every change in your notebook, newest first, by day.

Changes come in sittings: a run of changes by one person or agent. Each sitting shows who, when, and what it did in a few words. A dot marks a sitting by someone else that is new since you last looked.

Click a sitting to see its changes beside the list, grouped by page. Each change says what was done, such as “wrote …”, “moved …”, “tagged …”, “deleted …”: words added on green, words taken out struck through. Point at a change for:

• Open the block or Open the page;
• Undo this (see below);
• See the N saves, when one change was typed in many steps.

Older changes at the foot loads more.

Only changes are listed. Reading and stepping through days write nothing, so none of it shows here.

On a phone, tap a sitting to open it, and ‹ Op Log to go back. Swipe a change left to undo it.

Filter by who, or by page

Type in the box at the top, Person, agent or page, and pick one. Or click its filter button for People and agents, with how many changes each made, and Pages. The filter shows as a chip in the box; its × takes it off. Agents are marked with ✦.

Undo one change

Click Undo this on a change. It puts back what that change replaced, but only where nobody has changed it since. The change is then marked undone. Undo this sitting undoes every change in the sitting.

A few changes cannot be undone: an undo, a go-back, a delete for good, an erase, and a renumbering (see Long lists).

Restore to here

Click Restore to here… on a sitting to undo every change made after it. Fennick asks first, as “Undo the 4 later changes?”, and says whose changes they are. Click Go back, or Cancel.

With a filter on, only that person's or agent's later changes are undone. Everyone else's work stays. A change made since is never overwritten.

See the page as it was shows the page just after that sitting.

Long lists

A list can keep growing: it takes new blocks however long it gets. When a very long or crowded list needs it, Fennick renumbers the order of its blocks once, in the background. Nothing on the page moves.

• The Op Log shows it as Server “renumbered the blocks of …”.
• It cannot be undone, and Restore to here passes over it.

One page's changes are also in the right panel's History view: pick Page history in the page's ⋯ menu.

Trash

Deleted pages and blocks go to the Trash, in the sidebar. The blocks inside a deleted block go with it. Nothing leaves the Trash until you delete it for good.

• The Trash lists what you deleted by day: Today, Yesterday, then dates. What has been there more than 30 days is folded under Older than 30 days.
• Type in Search Trash to find something. Its filter shows only Pages or Blocks, what someone deleted (Deleted by), or what came From a page.
• Click a row to look at it before you restore it. A page opens as it was, read only, with Restore and Delete for good… at its top.
• Restore puts one back where it was, with its blocks inside.
• Tick several rows to Restore them, or delete them for good, together.
• Delete on a row, or Delete for good… in its ⋯ menu, deletes it for good. Empty items older than 30 days does that for everything older. Each asks first, and it cannot be undone: not even the Op Log can bring it back.
• Erase permanently…, in a block's ⋯ menu, is for the notebook's owner. It erases the block's words, and the blocks under it, from the notebook and its history, on every device. It asks first and cannot be undone; the Op Log keeps only that you erased it. A page or a day page has no Erase.
• On a phone, swipe a row left to restore it or delete it.
• To delete a page: open the ⋯ menu at the top right of the page and pick Move to Trash. Fennick asks first. Day pages cannot be deleted.
• Deleting an entity that is used elsewhere only removes it from this page. See Deleting an entity.