The editing page shows your document the way your client will see it, and keeps its controls out of the way until you need them: point at a line and that line’s controls appear, in the margin and on the price, right where you’re working. Here is one priced line with everything showing at once, and what each mark means.
One line, annotated
⋮⋮＋⋯1Foundation & framing$107,250.00 ƒ5Priced: Auto ⌄This is: Work ⌄6
2Rough framing3$54,450.00
Describe the framing package…4
- The margin controls. Every line and block keeps its actions in the left margin: ⋯ opens them all in words, ＋ adds a line below, and ⋮⋮ drags the line up, down, or into another group. At rest only a faint ⋯ remains — the reminder that the margin is where controls live.
- The finding dot. Something to check before this goes out — a missing price, a date that passed. Click the dot and it says what, and jumps you there. The same findings are collected in “things to check” at the top of the editor.
- Dotted underline. This text edits in place — click and type. The underline only shows while you point at it.
- Grey slanted text. Sample words, there to show the shape. They never print: make them yours by typing over them, or use the line’s ⋯ to keep them as written or remove them.
- The little ƒ. This total is computed from the lines under it, not typed — change a line and the total follows. A price you typed yourself has no ƒ.
- The two price menus. On any priced line or group: “Priced:” sets how the number works (a sum of its lines, one bundled price, quantity × rate, included, or TBD) and “This is:” says what the group is — work, an allowance budget, or an option outside the price.
Elsewhere on the page
- The page strip. Each sheet names itself in the small pill at its top edge; point at that edge (or tap the page) and the page’s own actions appear — add something, switch its look, save it to your library. The ⋯ at the strip’s end holds the rest: swap in a saved page, the footer, moving, deleting.
- The page list on the left. Drag ⋮⋮ to reorder pages; the eye includes a page or leaves it out of the document without deleting it. ＋ Add a page offers the standard pages, pages written from your line items, and blank pages you name yourself — a Project story, a Written page, a Photo page.
- ✦ on focused text. The writing assist (or press ⌘K): say what you want — “shorter”, “warmer” — and review before anything changes.
- Undo, always. ⌘Z takes back any edit, including moves and deletes — one step, every time.