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title: "Editing & revisions"
description: "Work in the rich text editor, change status, and browse or restore earlier revisions."
canonical: https://firefight.app/docs/postmortems/editing-and-revisions/
---

# Editing & revisions

Every postmortem opens in a full-page rich text editor in the web dashboard. Anyone in your workspace can edit it until it is marked completed. If you have not created one yet, see [Postmortems](https://firefight.app/docs/postmortems/overview.md) for where they live and [Generating with AI](https://firefight.app/docs/postmortems/generating-with-ai.md) for drafting.

## The editor

The editor behaves like a modern document editor. Select any text and a floating toolbar appears with bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, and inline code. The document supports headings, lists, task lists with checkboxes, blockquotes, and code blocks.

Changes save automatically. Shortly after you stop typing, the header shows a brief **Saved** confirmation, so there is no save button to remember. Saving also happens when you navigate away, so a quick edit on the way out is not lost.

Selecting text also exposes the AI rewrite button. See [Rewrite a section with AI](https://firefight.app/docs/postmortems/generating-with-ai.md) for how that works.

## Changing status

The status badge in the header shows where the document stands. Use the menu in the top-right corner of the postmortem page:

- **Mark as Completed** locks in the postmortem as finished.
- **Reopen as Draft** appears on a completed postmortem and puts it back into editing.

The same menu offers **Export as PDF** and **Export as Markdown** if you need to share the document outside Firefight.

## Revision history

Every meaningful change to the postmortem is captured as a revision. That includes the original AI generation, manual edits, and AI rewrites. Each revision records who made the change, what kind of change it was, when it happened, and a snapshot of the document at that point.

Click **Revisions** in the header to open the history panel. Revisions are listed newest first with the editor's name and the change type:

| Change type | What it means |
| --- | --- |
| Generated by AI | The initial AI-written draft |
| Edited | A manual edit in the editor |
| AI rewritten | A passage was rewritten through the AI rewrite dialog |

Select a revision to preview it. The preview highlights what changed between that revision and the next one, with additions and deletions marked inline. If an earlier version was better, click **Restore this version** and it becomes the current document. Restoring is itself recorded as an edit, so nothing in the history is ever lost.

:::tip
Restore is safe to experiment with. Because the version you replace is captured as a new revision, you can always get back to it from the same panel.
:::