"Pets allowed in the courtyard but not the kitchen — agreed at Council 23 Feb..."
A Scroll isn't just a doc — it's a doc plus a record of how it changed and a thread to discuss it.
Versions
Every save creates a version. The history panel (clock icon, top-right) shows who edited, when, and a one-line summary if they wrote one. You can roll back to any version with two clicks. Nothing is overwritten. Old versions stay readable.
If your community votes a change to the bylaws, do this:
- Edit the Scroll with the new agreed wording.
- Add a brief edit summary ("Updated quiet hours per Council 30 Apr 2026").
- Save.
Six months later when someone asks "wait, when did we change quiet hours?", the answer is one click in the history panel.
Comments
Threaded at the bottom of every Scroll. Tag with @name to notify. Useful for:
- Suggesting a change without editing
- Linking the Scroll to a specific decision ("agreed in Council 30 Apr")
- Asking "who knows about X in here?"
Don't use comments for chat. They're permanent. Future readers will see them, and irrelevant noise erodes the Scroll's authority.
Sharing publicly
Lock icon > Public > toggle on. The Scroll gets a stable URL, indexable by Google, embeddable on your community's website. Useful for:
- "About us" or mission statements
- Workshop signup pages
- A public version of your bylaws or community agreements
Public Scrolls show only the published content — no comments, no version history, no member names except author attribution.
Linking from a Gathering
You can attach a Scroll to a Gathering — typically the meeting notes. The Gathering page links to the Scroll; the Scroll's metadata names the Gathering. This makes "what did we decide last Tuesday?" trivially answerable.
Editing etiquette
Real-time co-editing isn't on yet (it's on the roadmap). For now, the convention is: if you're going to be in a Scroll for more than five minutes, drop a quick comment first ("editing the lease section now") so a co-author doesn't trample your work. The version history will save you if it happens, but a heads-up is kinder.