Two people in the same project
You can see who is in the project and where they are looking. Typing in the same file at the same time is still switched off.
Simultaneous editing of the same file is behind a beta switch and is off by default. What is live today is presence, cursors, and connection state.
What is live today
Open a project someone else has open and you both appear. You see each other's cursor and selection.
The connection state is always on screen, so nobody keeps typing into a session that quietly dropped.
- Connecting
- Live
- Offline — your edits are kept
- Unavailable
Why simultaneous typing is still off
The merging layer is built and tested, but it is not switched on by default.
Describing it as available would be the expensive kind of wrong: two people would trust it, work in parallel, and find out later whose work survived.
What it does once enabled
The merge is order-independent, which is the property that makes it safe.
- A late joiner receives the current document in full
- Edits made while disconnected merge back in on reconnect
- Whoever's change arrives first, everyone ends up with the same result
How to divide the work meanwhile
One person drives the chat while the other works in a different file.
If you do land on the same file, the save reports a conflict rather than overwriting the newer version.
Send one request at a time. Two at once means the second waits its turn.
Who can do what
A workspace has owners, admins and editors. Owners manage who is in it.
Editors can change the project but cannot invite or remove anyone.
The last owner cannot be removed, because that would leave a project nobody can administer.