An editor that gets out of the way
Blocks for people who want a toolbar, Markdown for people who do not, and reusable snippets so a product rename is one edit instead of ninety.
- Markdown + blocks
- Live co-editing
- Clean Word paste
What is the TheDocs documentation editor?
It is a block-based editor that also accepts Markdown natively. Writers can use a toolbar, type Markdown shorthand, or drop into raw HTML for anything the blocks do not cover - in the same article, without switching modes. Reusable snippets and variables let a single piece of content or a single value be maintained once and used everywhere it appears.
- Markdown shorthand converts to blocks as you type.
- Snippets update every article they appear in.
- Variables hold values like a product name or support address.
- Paste from Word, Google Docs or a web page and get clean blocks.
- Simultaneous editing with live cursors and presence.
- Code blocks, callouts, tabs, tables, and Mermaid diagrams.
What you can put on a page
The block set is aimed at technical content rather than at newsletters.
Code, properly
Syntax highlighting for 200+ languages, copy button, line highlighting, and tab groups for showing the same request in curl, Python and JavaScript.
Callouts that mean something
Note, tip, warning and danger callouts with consistent styling, so a destructive step never reads like a footnote.
Diagrams from text
Mermaid flowcharts, sequence and state diagrams render from source. They diff cleanly and nobody has to find the original file to change one arrow.
Tables you can actually edit
Add and reorder rows and columns, merge cells, pin a header row. Tables stay readable on a phone by scrolling rather than squashing.
Media handled for you
Drag in an image and it is compressed, converted to a modern format and served from the CDN. Video embeds from YouTube, Vimeo and Loom.
Steps, tabs and accordions
Numbered procedures that renumber themselves, platform tabs for Windows and macOS instructions, and collapsible sections for optional detail.
The parts that save real time
Single-source your repeated content
Every documentation set has passages that appear in a dozen places: a prerequisites list, a support escalation path, a compliance notice. Copying them is how they drift.
- Snippets: a reusable block inserted by reference. Edit once, and every article using it updates on next publish.
- Variables: named values such as product name, current version, or support email, substituted at render time.
- Conditional content: show a paragraph only in a specific version, language or audience.
- A usage panel on every snippet shows which articles depend on it before you change it.
Teams migrating from Word typically find 15-20% of their content is duplicated. Snippets are usually the first thing that pays for the migration.
Paste that does not need cleaning up
Most documentation starts life somewhere else. The import path matters as much as the editor itself.
- Word and Google Docs: headings, lists, tables and emphasis map to blocks; inline styling is discarded.
- Web pages: content is converted to blocks with images downloaded into your media library rather than hotlinked.
- Markdown: pasted Markdown is parsed, not escaped.
- Screenshots: paste from the clipboard and the image is uploaded and inserted in place.
Written by more than one person
Documentation is rarely a solo activity, and 'who has the file open' is not a workflow.
- Simultaneous editing with live cursors and presence indicators.
- Inline comments and suggestions, resolvable without leaving the article.
- Mention a colleague to notify them and assign a follow-up.
- Draft, in-review and published states are distinct, so nobody publishes by accident.
Related features
Questions people ask before they start
Write one article and see how it feels.
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