Inspector & Version History

A right-hand panel that shows everything about whatever you’re working on — its details, its Project and Tag assignments, your rating — and a History tab where you can browse past versions of a document and restore any of them without losing your current work.

What it does

The Inspector is a right-side panel for the active artifact (a document, a PDF source, or a research note). It has two tabs:

• Info — metadata about the item, the place to assign it to Projects and Tags, and a simple 1–5 star rating.
• History — the version timeline for a document, where you can preview, compare, and restore past versions.

Project/Tag assignment lives here in the Inspector (moved out of the editor header), so the header stays clean and shows a compact read-only summary that opens the panel.

How users get there

• Open the Inspector from the artifact’s surface (its summary chip in the header opens the panel).
• The Info tab shows details + assignment + rating.
• The History tab shows the document’s versions.

Info tab

The details shown adapt to the artifact:

• Document — created / modified / opened dates, word count, reading time, language, authorship-protection status, folder, plus Project + Tag assignment and a 1–5 rating.
• PDF source — kind, ingest status, page count, file size, source URL/DOI, chunk count, plus rating.
• Note — its parent source, page, quote, created/updated (assignment is inherited, read-only).

Version History & restore

Document versions are captured automatically as you work, plus at meaningful moments (closing a session, before an AI edit is applied, before a restore, on import). From the History tab you can:

• Preview any version’s content.
• Compare a version against the current document (diff).
• Restore a version non-destructively — Diglot snapshots your current state first, then sets the content to the version you chose, so a restore never throws away what you had.
• Name and pin versions you care about so they survive automatic cleanup.

History isn’t kept forever: recent versions are kept densely and older ones are thinned over time, with how far back you can go depending on your plan (Free shorter, Pro longer). Named/pinned versions are exempt from automatic pruning.

This is distinct from two other things: the authorship provenance chain (an append-only audit log, see Certificate) and track changes (inline suggestions). Version History is about restorable snapshots.

Limitations

• Version History applies to documents (not PDFs or notes).
• How far back history goes is plan-gated (Free is shorter than Pro).
• Diff is computed client-side between a version and your current content.
• The Inspector’s editable assignment is for documents and PDFs; notes inherit their assignment read-only.

Common user questions

• “Will restoring an old version lose my current text?” — No. Restore snapshots your current state first, so you can always come back.
• “How far back can I go?” — Depends on your plan — Free keeps a shorter window, Pro keeps more. Pin the versions you never want auto-removed.
• “Where did the Project/Tag chips in the header go?” — They moved into the Inspector’s Info tab to keep the header clean; the header now shows a summary that opens the panel.
• “How is History different from the authorship certificate?” — History lets you restore past content. The certificate is an append-only proof of how the document was written — it’s never restored or edited.
• “Can I rate a source?” — Yes, the Info tab has a 1–5 rating for documents and PDF sources.