Format text in airfocus

How to use the text editor

The Text editor is available on item descriptions and comments (even on item descriptions on Portal).

To use the Text editor, simply press / or highlight your existing text to immediately access all functionalities listed below.

Functionalities

Slash commands

With / you can add different content types to the Text editor. You can also turn a block into another block type such as Text, h1, h2, h3, numbered list, bulleted lists, code block, and @mention.

• Text: Just some regular old text!
• Heading: Define different sections clearly by formatting them across three standard heading sizes: h1, h2, and h3.
• Numbered list: Order your points in numbers. Additionally, you can also press Enter + Tab to switch to other ordering sequences such as alphabets and roman numerals.
• Bulleted list: Add bullets to your points. Similarly, press Enter + Tab to further sub-list your points.
• Quote: Creates a separate block of text to call out content in a quote.
• Code block: Add a block of code with its formatting in any programming language.
• Person: Mention a user in your airfocus team. This will send them a notification.
• Item: Mention an airfocus item. With the correct permissions, clicking on this will open a link to the item.
• Link: Insert any link.
• Image: Insert an image directly within the text editor.
• File: Upload a file directly within the text editor.
• Embed: Embed content from Figma, Loom, and YouTube. Learn more.

Floating formatting toolbar

We offer advanced formatting with our new editing toolbar which is hidden but will appear exactly at the place of highlight or action.

• Dropdown menu : The dropdown menu allows you to access / commands.
• AI Assist: AI Assist gives you access to AI for product managers with powerful prompts. Learn more.
• Formatting palette : Use the palette to bold, italicize, underline, or strikethrough text, or turn text into code or a link.
• Insight: With the Insights app installed, create an insight from the highlighted text and link it to a relevant airfocus item. Learn more.

You can see the keyboard shortcuts by hovering over each of the options on the formatting toolbar.

Drag-and-drop rearrangement for content blocks

You can easily drag-and-drop blocks within the item description or comments.

Hyperlinks

There are several options to paste links into the Text editor:

• Paste link by highlighting text : When you want to link a specific text, you can easily paste links with ⌘V / Ctrl + V.
  
• Link selection from the floating toolbar : This allows you to paste the link (must have https:// as the link's prefix) and modify the underlying text behind the link.
  
• Special inline links : We have added support to prettify links from certain tools in our editor. Tools included are: Figma, Loom, YouTube, Notion, Jira (Cloud only), Azure DevOps (Cloud only), Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Presentations, and Github.
• Toolbar appears once you hover over a link : This allows you to edit, copy, or unlink the link immediately.
  

Turn into menu

By clicking on ⋮⋮ next to the drag-and-drop blocks, you can access the “Turn into” menu where you can convert a block into another block type such as Text, h1, h2, h3, numbered list, bulleted lists, code block, and @mention.

Keyboard shortcuts

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