My Library Help Page

My Library, your Writing Partners homepage, shows you the Documents you've uploaded and the Documents that others have shared with you (see other documentation pages about the Groups and Folders that also appear on the My Library page).

Clicking on a document's title takes you to the document's “View” page, where you can read the document and all the comments on it.

By default, My Library lists your documents based on when they are added to your My Library page; this is the “normal sort”, based on the date you created or gained access to the document (in the latter case, this is not necessarily the date the document was created). To the left of the document name there's a thin column that will have one of the following:

1. filled-in bullet (4th and last five documents and collections in screenshot) — a document or collection you've never viewed before (“new”)
2. unfilled bullet (5th document in screenshot) — a document you've viewed before that has since been edited or had material added to it (“updated”)
3. no bullet/empty column (first three documents in screenshot) — a document you've seen the most current version of (new comments won't trigger a bullet of either kind)

Next to the “My Library” header a button may appear showing how many documents are new or updated. For example:

If you click that button the sort will change to put all the new documents at the top of the My Library document list, and then all the updated documents, and then the documents you're current on. Within each category, the newest documents are listed first. Click the same button again to return to the normal sort.

You can sort in other ways by clicking any of the blue toolbar headers:

• Title (of document) — list documents alphabetically
• Comments (either total number or most recent) — view the most or least heavily commented documents
• Invited By — who invited you to the document (your name will appear for documents you uploaded)
• Shared — the date you were invited to the file (not the date it was created)

Clicking the same header twice in a row reverses the sort order.

The checkboxes along the far left side let you act on multiple documents at the same time. Check the boxes of each document on the page you want to take one of the following actions on, and then click just one of the four buttons at the bottom of the page (“Invite”, “Delete”, “Tag”, or “Mark as Favorite”) to perform that action on all the selected documents at once.

The number in parentheses next to a title shows how many versions the author has edited on Writing Partners. For example, in the screenshot above, fifth document has 11 versions.

Hovering over the “i” information icon towards the right end of the document listing provides additional document details, such as when it was created, whether it's Public or Private (private document have a padlock icon), etc. If you want more information, clicking on the “i” will take you to the Properties page.

The Invite button to the far right of each document allows you to share your documents. — This is how you let other people and Writing Partners groups see and comment on the document. Anyone can share (invite others to) a Public Documents, but only the Document Owner can invite others to Private Documents, and this option will be grayed out (unclickable) for anyone other than the Document Owner.

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Last updated: March 3, 2026