# Version history

Every document keeps its history. You did not have to turn it on, and you cannot lose work by editing.

## What is recorded

Workover snapshots a document periodically as it changes, and records who changed it. You can also **name a version** at a moment that matters — “sent for legal review”, “pre-rewrite” — which makes it easy to find later among the automatic ones.

Each tab has its own history.

## Browsing

Open version history from the document menu. The list runs newest first, with the time and who was editing. Select one to see the document exactly as it was.

**Compare** two versions to see what changed between them, additions and removals marked inline. This is usually more useful than reading an old version on its own — the question is almost always “what changed”, not “what did it say”.

## Restoring

Restoring makes an old version the current one. It does not delete anything: the version you were on is still in the history, so restoring is itself reversible. Restore the wrong one and restore back.

## Where history saves you

- **A pull overwrote your work.** Pulling from WordPress replaces the document body. The version before the pull is in the history.
- **A rewrite went wrong.** Accepted a set of AI suggestions and preferred the original — restore.
- **Someone changed something and nobody knows who.** The history says who and when.

## What history is not

It is not the [activity log](/docs/notifications), which records events around the document — shares, pushes, comments — rather than the text itself. Two different questions: *what did this say* versus *what happened to it*.

It is also not a WordPress revision. WordPress keeps its own revisions of the published post; Workover keeps its own of the document. A push writes to WordPress and creates a revision there too, so both sides have their own trail.

## Related

- [Comments and suggestions](/docs/comments-and-suggestions)
- [Pulling changes from WordPress](/docs/pulling-from-wordpress)
- [Document tabs](/docs/document-tabs)