Items are the building blocks of Trace.Space. An item is one piece of information, such as a requirement, a test case or a note. Every item has an item type, and the type decides which attributes the item carries: a heading, a description, a status, a priority, and so on. See Item types for how types are set up.
Creating items
There are several ways to create an item:
From the tree. Hover over an item in the left navigation tree and click the + button. The tooltip names the type you get, for example Click to add new Folder as child item; type the name and press Enter. Right-click the + for the type picker: Add item adds a sibling of any type, and Add child item adds a child of the same type or, under Other types, of another type.
Between items in document view. Hover in the gap below an item and click the + that appears. The tooltip tells you which type will be created; right-click for other types.
At the top level. Click New item at the bottom of the tree, or click the ... button on the Items header and choose New item. The same menu offers Paste, Import and Access control.
From a file or from AI. Import a document to create items from its headings, or ask the AI to draft items in chat.
Editing and saving
Click into any text attribute and start typing. Changes are saved automatically as you type, and colleagues editing the same item see them live. While the item is still syncing after you start typing, a small Fetching latest... note appears above it. Every change creates a new version of the item; see Item history and versions.
Items that are read-only for you, deleted, or pinned in the active variant cannot be edited in place.
The text editor
Text attributes use a rich-text editor. Select some text to show the floating toolbar with Bold, Italic, Underline, Bulleted list, Clear formatting, Link, Edit with AI and Comment. On a heading attribute only Edit with AI and Comment are offered.
Type / anywhere in a text attribute to open the command menu, which inserts images, videos, tables and Mermaid diagrams, links a parameter or generates the attribute's content with AI. Type @ to mention another item and $ to reference a parameter.
Every toolbar button, command, shortcut and embedded content type is described in Rich text editor reference. Editing with AI is covered in Working with AI.
Item actions
Hover an item in document view for its ... menu and checkbox; tick several items and use the Actions button above the document to act on all of them at once. See Item actions for every entry in the menu and the access each one needs.