Edit a Scratchpad on the Main Page

Edit a scratchpad on the main page

The editor is the one place in Cognardo Workbench where scratchpad content changes. Everywhere else a scratchpad opens in view mode; here, view mode becomes edit mode, and the collection becomes a working draft: notes written alongside captures, material trimmed and reordered, a pile of saves cleaned into something usable. This page covers entering edit mode from the view, working in the editor, and saving your way back out.

Prerequisites:

• Signed in: Scratchpads require a signed-in account. See sign in to the extension.
• A scratchpad with content: The editor works on what the saves collected. See save the last response.
• The library: Editing starts from a scratchpad opened on the main page. See view scratchpads on the main page.

Enter edit mode#

1. Open the Scratchpad tab of the main extension page and click the scratchpad's row. It opens in view mode. See view scratchpads on the main page.
2. Click the edit control on the open scratchpad.
The view switches to edit mode:
1. The content becomes editable in place, cursor and all.
2. The editing controls appear above the content.
3. The word count stays live, updating as the content changes.

Active and saved scratchpads edit the same way. Opening one in the editor never changes which scratchpad is active; only the mark-active control does that. See the active scratchpad.

Work in the editor#

• Everything is text, all of it yours: Every save the scratchpad collected sits in one editable body. Trim a capture to the line that mattered, reorder material into an argument, delete what did not survive a second reading.
• Write between the captures: Type anywhere. Notes, headings, and connective sentences turn a pile of saved fragments into a draft, which is the editor's real job: the scratchpad stops being storage and starts being the document.
• The editing controls: The controls above the content cover the working essentials for shaping the text in place.

Save and return#

1. Click the save control when the content is where you want it.
2. The scratchpad returns to view mode, holding the edited content.
3. The edit is now what every surface shows: the view here, the sidebar's Scratchpad tab, the word count in the pop-up row, and whatever inserts from the scratchpad next. With Enable Cloud Sync & Intelligence on, the change follows your account across devices. See Cloud Sync & Data.

What editing pairs with#

• Inserting: An edited scratchpad inserts as edited. The routes back into the chat are covered in insert with the shortcut.
• AI features: The scratchpad's AI actions run on the content as it stands, so an edit pass before running them is the cheap way to better output. See Expand / Shorten.

Related pages#

• View scratchpads on the main page
• View scratchpads in the sidebar
• The active scratchpad
• Insert with the shortcut
• Expand / Shorten