Folders and finding things
Find your way around your documents, put them in folders, and find them again.
Your dashboard
Your dashboard is what you see right after you sign in, under My Documents in the left column.
Your folders are at the top, with the pages and sheets that aren't in any folder below them. Anything you put in a folder shows up only in that folder. Click a folder to open it. Click a page or sheet to start writing in it.
Recent, in the left column, shows everything you have, newest first, whatever folder it's in. Each row says which folder it's in.
The path along the top of the list, like My Documents › Work, shows where you are. Click any name in it to go back there. On a phone, it's a back button instead.
When someone shares a document or a folder with you, a Shared With Me section appears in the left column. The folders and documents people have shared with you are there.
Making folders
To make a folder, click the round + button in the bottom-right corner, then New Folder. Give it a name and you're done.
The folder is made wherever you are. To put a folder inside another one, open the outer folder first, then make the new one.
One folder can hold pages and sheets together, mixed however you like.
If you delete a folder, what's inside it is not deleted. Its pages, sheets and folders move up one level instead.
You can put folders inside folders up to five levels deep. At the fifth level, the option to make another folder inside goes away.
Renaming and moving
To rename a page or sheet, open it and click its title at the very top. You can also right-click it in the list and choose Rename.
To put a document in a folder, right-click it and choose Move. Then pick the folder it should go in. It leaves My Documents, and you'll find it in that folder or in Recent. The three dots (⋯) at the end of its row open the same menu.
On a phone, press and hold the row to open that menu.
Moving a document into or out of a shared folder changes who can see it. cDox lets you know before it happens.
Finding a document
To find a document, click the magnifying glass (Search) at the top right. A box opens: type a few words you remember.
Search looks at titles, and also at the words inside your pages and what's typed in your sheets. For a sheet, it tells you where in the sheet the text is. Folders show up too.
Click a result to open it.
You don't need accents or capitals: resume finds Résumé. Part of a word works too: udget finds budget. Search only shows what you're allowed to open, including things shared with you.
On a keyboard, Ctrl+ K opens search from anywhere. The arrow keys move through the results, Enter opens one, Escape closes the box.
Sorting the list
To change the order of the list, click Name, Size or Modified, just above your documents. Click the same one again to flip the order.
To start with, the documents you changed most recently come first. cDox remembers your choice in this browser.
Folders always stay above documents. Sorting puts the folders in order among themselves, and the documents among themselves.
You can also right-click an empty part of the list and choose Sort by. On a phone, these headings are hidden and the list keeps its order.
The right-click menu
On a computer, right-click a row to see everything you can do with it. On a phone, press and hold the row.
For a page or sheet: Open, Open in new tab, Rename, Duplicate, Move and Delete.
For a folder: Open, Add members (to share it), Rename, Move and Delete.
Right-clicking an empty part of the list lets you make a page, sheet or folder, import a file, select everything, or change the order of the list.
Duplicate makes a copy right next to the original, with "copy" added to its title. The copy is private: the public link, collaborators and comments stay with the original.
Doing several at once
To move, download or delete several documents in one go, first pick them. On a computer, move your mouse over a row: a small box appears. Tick it.
Once one box is ticked, clicking another row adds it instead of opening it. Click it again to take it back out.
The top of the list then turns into a bar with three choices: move, download or delete everything you picked.
Deleting is permanent: there is no trash. That's why cDox asks you to type the word delete first.
You can pick folders too, but only to move them. A download comes as one zip file: pages as Markdown (plain text) and sheets as CSV, one file per tab. Sheets keep their results, not their formulas.
Shortcuts for picking: Cmd-click ( Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) adds one row, and Shift-click picks every row up to the one you clicked last.
Using the keyboard
If you prefer the keyboard, you can do everything in the list without a mouse. Press Tab until a row is highlighted, then use the arrow keys to move around.
One press of Tab gets you into the list, however many documents it holds. You never have to go through them one by one.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| ↑or ↓ | Move between rows |
| → | Open the folder you are on |
| ← | Go back up a level |
| Homeor End | First or last row |
| Enter | Open |
| Ror F2 | Rename |
| M | Move to a folder |
| Backspaceor Del | Delete |
| Space | Select or deselect |
| Shift+↑or Shift+↓ | Grow the selection up or down |
To pick several rows: Space picks the row you're on, Shift+ ↓ adds the next one, Ctrl+ A picks the whole folder, and Esc clears your picks.
Shift+ F10 (or the Menu key) opens the menu for the row you're on, the same one you get with a right-click. And ? shows every shortcut, wherever you are. See also Keyboard shortcuts.
When you go back up a level with ←, you land on the folder you just left, so you don't lose your place.