Autosave, undo and conflicts
Tessolo saves your work as you type: what the editor's status text means, undo and redo, “changed elsewhere” conflicts and manual save points.
There is no save button, and you don't need one. What you do need is to know what the status text in the top bar is telling you.
- 1Save status
- 2Publish, with a count of changed pages
The status text
| It says | It means |
|---|---|
| Saving… | A change is on its way to the server. |
| Saved | Everything is stored. Still not visible to visitors. |
| Unsaved | You've changed something and it hasn't gone yet. Normal for a second or two. |
| Save failed | It couldn't be stored — usually the connection. Keep the tab open and it retries. |
| Changed elsewhere | Someone else (or you in another tab) saved this page too. See below. |
Saved does not mean live. Saving stores your draft. The public site keeps showing the last version you published. This is the single most common misunderstanding — see publishing.
⌘S forces a save immediately if you want the reassurance, but it is never required.
Undo and redo
⌘Z undoes, ⇧⌘Z redoes. The history covers everything you did to the page in this session — edits, moves, deletions, style changes.
What counts as one step is chosen to match what you'd expect:
- Typing a sentence is one step, not one per letter.
- One drag to resize a block is one step, however many pixels it passed through.
- Applying an AI result is one step, so ⌘Z takes the whole thing back.
Two things undo does not cover:
- Typing inside a rich text block. There ⌘Z belongs to the text editor. Click outside first, then undo the page.
- Anything outside the page — deleting a collection entry, changing a site setting, publishing. Those have their own confirmations, and pages have version history.
The history is per session. Reload the editor and it starts fresh — your content is safe, but the undo stack is gone.
"Changed elsewhere"
If the same page is edited in two places — a colleague, or a second tab you forgot about — whoever saves second gets this warning instead of quietly overwriting the first.
You get two choices:
- Reload — take their version and lose your unsaved changes.
- Overwrite with mine — keep yours and discard theirs.
There's no merge. Pages are structure, not text, so a machine merge would produce something neither person meant.
The practical way to avoid it: agree who has which page, and use Preview rather than a second editor tab when you just want to look.
Manual save points
Autosave keeps the latest state, but sometimes you want a point you can name and come back to — before a redesign, say.
Open the publish panel and press Version history, then save a version with a note. See version history.