Versions and history
Every change is kept, whoever made it, and going back is one click.
Every Workshop document keeps its history. Open History in the panel header.
What you see
A list of versions, newest first, each labelled with what it is:
- Created, the first version
- AI edit, a change Asteria made because you asked
- Your edit, a change you typed yourself
Click any version to view it. The panel says Viewing version 3 so you cannot mistake an old version for the current one.
That labelling is more useful than it sounds. When a document has been through a dozen rounds, "which of these did I do by hand?" is exactly the question you need answered, and it is the hand edits that tend to get lost when a document is regenerated.
Going back
Open the version you want and click Restore.
Restoring does not delete anything. It adds that version's content back at the top of the list as a new current version, and every version you already had stays exactly where it was. So restoring is safe, and restoring a restore is fine too: you can go back and forth until you have the one you meant, and nothing you passed through on the way is lost.
For a workbook, restore the version before downloading. The download always gives you the current version, so viewing an old one and hitting download gets you today's file, not the one on screen. The panel says so when you are viewing an old version.
Versions and saving are different things
Worth keeping straight, because two similar-looking controls do different jobs:
- Save and Discard changes are about the edits you are making right now, before they become a version.
- History and Restore are about versions already saved.
Discard changes throws away this sitting's typing. It does not step back a version. To undo something you saved an hour ago, use History.
What is not kept
History belongs to the document, and the document belongs to its conversation. Delete the conversation and the document goes with it, history and all.
If a document matters beyond the conversation that produced it, download it, or ask Asteria to save it into a collection where it lives independently.