JetBrains Space Help

Create or Add a Document

There are two ways to create any document in a project (a text document, blog post draft, or checklist):

  • Create a document draft in your private Documents folder where no one can see it while you're working on it, except for people you explicitly share it with. When the document is ready, you can copy or move it to the project, making it publicly available.

    For further instructions, see My Documents

  • Create a document right from a project. In this case the document becomes public the moment you create it, and everyone with the viewing permission determined by the project settings will be able to see the contents of the document while you are working on it.

Create a text document in a project

  1. Navigate to your project.

  2. On the project sidebar, choose Documents.

  3. On your project's Documents page, navigate to the Folders tab and open the folder where you want your new document located:

    projectFolders.png
  4. In the top right corner, click New and choose Text document:

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  5. Specify the document title. Your document is created!

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    Now you can add some content to it using the built-in editors: Rich Text or Markdown.

  6. Switch the document to the Editing mode to add or edit content:

    projectDocumentsEditing.png
  7. Choose the editing mode:

    • Rich text (default): use a built-in rich text editor (what you see is what you get) for formatting.

    • Markdown: use Markdown tags to format the text as you type. You'll be able to preview your document while working on it.

    projectEditDocument.png
  8. Add images to your draft. In the Markdown mode use tags. In the Rich text mode you can:

    • Drag'n'drop or cut'n'paste a file or animated GIF from your computer to the editor area.

    • Copy'n'paste an image from anywhere.

    • Insert an image from the web using its URL:

      On the editor toolbar, click insert-image.png then specify its location (URL).

  9. You work is automatically saved as you type. You can leave the page at anytime and access it later to continue working on it.

    To preview your document, use the options on the right-hand side:

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    You can also view the history of changes and roll back to an earlier version.

Create a blog post draft in a project

Blog post draft is a text document which includes additional settings for publishing in Blog later on.

  1. On your project's Documents page, navigate to the Folders tab and open the folder where you want your new document located.

  2. In the top right corner, click New and choose Blog post draft.

  3. Specify the document title. Your document is created!

  4. Add and edit contents. Follow the instructions outlined for the text document.

  5. Click Edit blog settings:

    projectEditBlogSettings.png
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  6. You or other project members can publish the blog post to the Blog at any time. Open the document, click Draft and choose Publish to blog:

    projectPublishToBlog.png

Create a checklist in a project

  1. On your project's Documents page, navigate to the Folders tab and open the folder where you want your new checklist located.

  2. In the top right corner, click New and choose Checklist:

    projectNewChecklist.png
  3. See Project Checklists for detailed instructions and more information.

Last modified: 31 January 2023