Nothing gets lost: history and undo

Undo and redo

• Undo: Ctrl+Z⌘Z.
• Redo: Ctrl+Y⌘Y.

Exaratio first undoes what you wrote. When there's no more text to undo, it moves on to the changes to the work: a character created, a chapter moved, a relationship deleted, a replacement across the whole work. The Edit menu always tells you what you're about to undo before you do it.

What your assistant did, too

Your AI assistant's changes are saved in the work right away, go into the same history, and the status bar announces them for a few seconds. If you don't like them, they're undone just like yours.

After closing the work

The history isn't erased when you close: when you open the work again, you can keep undoing. Before undoing something from an earlier session, Exaratio asks you.

You decide how many days it's kept in Tools → Preferences, under Undo after closing the work (days). It's 3 if you don't change anything.

You can make a copy of the whole work, to keep wherever you like, at any time with File → Save a backup copy.

Recover what you didn't save

While you write, Exaratio saves a separate copy of what you've done so far every few seconds. If the computer shuts down or Exaratio closes without saving, it offers it to you when you open the work again:

• Recover the previous session, before opening it, if there were changes left in the work: chapters, sheets, the chronology. With Recover the session the work opens with all of that as unsaved changes.
• Project recovery, if there was text left from the chapter you were writing. Click Recover changes and pick up where you left off.

Check what was recovered and save. If you choose Not now, nothing is lost: it opens what was saved and offers it to you again next time. Only Discard, which asks you to confirm, deletes it for good.