The left sidebar provides navigation between your main views: Feed, Drafts, Contacts, Library, and Settings. It also shows your current account and lets you switch between multiple accounts if you have them.

The feed shows recent activity from accounts you follow — new documents, edits, and comments. This is your starting point for discovering what's happening in your network.

Your library contains all documents you've created or subscribed to. Documents are organized by account and path, making it easy to browse your own content and content from others.

Manage the accounts you follow. Adding a contact means your daemon will sync their documents, making their content available locally even when they're offline. You can view a contact's profile, see their published documents, and manage collaboration permissions.

Seed uses a block-based editor similar to Notion or Google Docs. Each piece of content — a paragraph, heading, image, code block — is an individual block that can be rearranged, nested, or referenced independently.

Supported block types:

• Paragraph — Regular text with rich formatting (bold, italic, code, links)

• Heading — Section headers (multiple levels)

• Code — Syntax-highlighted code blocks with language selection

• Image — Upload or paste images, stored as content-addressed blobs

• Video — Embed video content

• File — Attach any file type

• Embed — Reference another Seed document or external content inline

• Math — LaTeX math equations

• Nostr — Embed Nostr posts

• Web Embed — Embed web content from X/Twitter, YouTube, Vimeo, and other platforms

Type "/" in the editor to open the block menu and see all available types.

Drafts are local-only until you publish them. You can work on multiple drafts simultaneously, and they persist across app restarts. The drafts page shows all your work-in-progress documents.

When you're ready, hit "Publish" to sign the document with your cryptographic key and make it available to the network. Published changes are immutable — each edit creates a new version, preserving the full history.

To let someone edit your documents, add them as a collaborator with the appropriate role:

• Editor — Can create and modify documents under your account

• Writer — Can propose changes (similar to pull requests)

Access control is managed through cryptographic capabilities — you grant specific permissions to specific account keys. No central server decides who can edit what.

Any Seed user can comment on any document. Comments are cryptographically signed and attributed to the commenter's account. You can reply to comments, creating threaded discussions directly on the document.

Anyone can fork (branch) a document to create their own editable copy. The branch maintains a reference back to the original, preserving attribution. This enables an open collaboration model — fork, improve, and share — without needing permission from the original author.

See the Branching Guide for details on how branching and refs work.

In Settings → Gateway, you can configure which gateway(s) your daemon syncs with. The main public gateway is hyper.media, which serves your documents at URLs like:

https://hyper.media/hm/z6Mk.../your-document-path

You can also run your own gateway for full control over your web presence. See the Self-Hosting Guide for details.

Through the aliases system, you can point a custom domain to your Seed account, so your documents appear at a custom domain instead of a gateway URL. See Aliases for setup instructions.