Autosave and undo

You never save a resume by hand. Every change is written to your device for you, and you can step back through your changes with undo.

Autosave#

A change is written about 0.6 seconds after you stop making changes, so a burst of typing is one write. The save indicator in the bar above the editor says where things stand:

• Saving means a change is waiting to be written, or is being written.
• Saved, for a guest, means the last change is on this device. Hover over it and it says so: written to this device, and there is no copy anywhere else.
• Not saved means the last write failed, so the resume is not on disk. Your edits are still on the screen. Export a copy before you close the tab. The indicator stays on Not saved until a later write succeeds.

Signed in, the indicator also says whether your account has the change: Saved once it does, Syncing while it is on its way, Saved here while you are offline and Not synced if the account could not be updated. See Accounts and sync. As a guest, Save beside the indicator keeps the resume in a free account.

If the tab is hidden, for instance by switching to another tab, or the page is closed, a change that is waiting is written at once and not left for its turn. Leaving the editor writes it too. Writes are done in order, so an older version can never land after a newer one.

Autosave writes to the browser's own storage, so it needs nothing but the device, and sync takes it from there to your account. For what that means for the resume's safety, see Where your work is kept.

Undo and redo#

The undo and redo buttons are in the bar above the editor, with the shortcut in the tooltip. They step back and forward through changes to the resume as a whole: text you wrote, a style setting you moved, a section you reordered on the paper, a block you deleted.

A few things worth knowing:

• Changes made in one run to the same thing are merged into one step. Typing a sentence takes one undo to take back, not one per letter, and dragging a slider is one step. A run ends when you pause for roughly three-quarters of a second or move to something else.
• The history holds the last 100 steps.
• It is kept while the resume is open. It is not saved, so closing the resume or reloading starts it empty.
• Making a new change after undoing discards what you could have redone.
• A change that alters nothing is not a step.

Undo in the code panes and on the paper#

Two places keep an undo history of their own, and in them the shortcut is theirs. In the Code pane, the undo shortcut undoes the text you typed, a step at a time. While you are editing a field on the paper, the browser's undo applies to what you typed in that field.

The buttons in the bar always act on the resume as a whole, wherever your cursor is. Elsewhere, the shortcuts do the same: Ctrl + Z to undo, and

Ctrl + Shift + Z or Ctrl + Y to redo, with ⌘ in place of Ctrl on a Mac.