History

Entz keeps a document's versions as it changes. See the document as it was at an earlier moment, and bring an older version back as a copy.

The history sheet showing an earlier version of a document, recorded in the app.

Looking back changes nothing. An older version comes back, when you want it, as a new document beside the one you have, and the document you are working in stays as it is.

Open the history

Choose History… from the three-dot Document menu in the document’s header. The History sheet lists the document’s versions, newest first, with their number under its title, such as 48 versions. Each row gives the date and time of a version and how long ago that was.

The list shows twenty versions at a time. Older versions, at its end, says how many more there are and brings the next twenty.

Look at a version

Press a version. A card above the list shows its date and time and the first lines of the document as it was then. A block without words shows as its kind: [drawing], [image] or [table]. When the document was empty at that version, the card says Nothing in the document at this version.

Restore as a copy

With a version chosen, press Restore as a copy. Entz makes a new document from that version, named after the document with the version’s date and time in brackets, and opens it. The original stays as it is: copy what you want back from the copy, paste it into the original, and delete the copy once you no longer need it.

The copy is a document of your own, so anyone who can open a document, a reader too, can restore one of its versions this way.

What a version is

A version is a moment when the document changed. Edits one person makes close together, within about a minute, count as one.
The sheet lists at most 200 versions. In a longer history they are spread evenly across it, and the newest is always there.
The list says when, not who. Edits by other people, by agents over MCP (How agents edit) and by the built-in assistant (The assistant) sit among yours, by their time.
A change from before Entz recorded times shows as Before times were kept.
Each tab of a document has a history of its own (Tabs).

Undo is separate from the history: it steps back through your own recent edits (Writing and formatting).

Where the history comes from

A document that syncs keeps its whole history, on the server and on your device, so the sheet shows the same versions on every device you sign in on. A document opened from this device’s copy, signed out or offline, has no history from before that opening: its list starts when you opened it (Offline and sync).

A history that grows far larger than the document itself, for example after very large pastes that were deleted again, is folded after a pause in your editing, and the versions from before the fold are gone. The sheet’s note under its title says so: A version from before the last fold of the history is no longer held.