Editor basics

The editor is where most of your time in Workover goes. It behaves the way a modern editor should, so this page is mostly about the few things that are specific to Workover.

Writing

Type. There is no save button — every keystroke is persisted as you go, and periodically a version is recorded so you can go back to any earlier state. If your connection drops mid-sentence, keep typing; the editor reconciles when it returns.

Formatting works three ways, and they all produce the same result:

Markdown shortcuts as you type. ## becomes a heading, - a bullet, > a quote, ` wraps code, 1. an ordered list. --- on its own line becomes a divider.
The / menu. Type / on an empty line for headings, lists, tables, code blocks, images, callouts and dividers.
The toolbar, for selections — bold, italic, links, alignment, colour.

Keyboard shortcuts

The usual ones apply: ⌘B bold, ⌘I italic, ⌘U underline, ⌘K link, ⌘Z undo, ⇧⌘Z redo. ⌘K with text selected turns it into a link; with nothing selected it opens search.

Esc closes whatever is open — the slash menu, a link editor, a panel.

Pasting

Paste is the feature worth knowing about. Workover looks at what you paste and converts it rather than dumping it:

Markdown pasted as plain text becomes formatted rich text. Paste a Claude or ChatGPT answer and it arrives as headings and lists, not asterisks. See pasting Markdown.
Rich text from Google Docs, Word or a web page keeps its structure and drops the foreign styling.
Images paste straight in and upload in the background.

Links

⌘K over a selection, or just paste a URL over selected text. Internal links to other documents work the same way — paste the document’s URL.

Tables, code and media

Tables come from the / menu and can be resized by dragging. Code blocks take a language for syntax highlighting — see code blocks. Images can be dragged in, pasted, or added from the / menu; images and media covers where they are stored and what happens to them on publish.

Working with other people

If someone else opens the same document you will see their cursor and their avatar in the corner. Both of you can type at once; the editor merges as you go rather than locking.

Select text and comment on it, or propose a change as a tracked suggestion for someone to accept — comments and suggestions.

Tabs

A document can hold several tabs, and only one of them syncs to WordPress. That is how you keep a brief or research notes beside the copy without them reaching your site. See document tabs.