How Pocper works

There is one idea to learn, and the rest follows from it: everything you make in Pocper is a Paper.

1 · A Paper is a web document

A Paper is built from text and blocks. The text is ordinary prose — headings, paragraphs, lists. The blocks are what someone fills in: short answers, long answers, dates, checkboxes, signatures, file uploads. They sit inline together, so a Paper reads like a page, not a questionnaire.

It runs in a browser: nothing to install, nothing to email back and forth, and the same document is legible on a phone and a desktop. Block types lists everything you can put in one.

2 · A Paper is whatever the two of you need

The same document can behave in four ways, and the behaviour is a setting rather than a different product. Data is one shared record you and the client keep current. Form is filled in fresh each time, in as many copies as needed. Agreement is edited, then confirmed and locked for the record. Publication is one document you write and every client reads.

You choose the behaviour when you create the document, and can change it later without starting over. Document kinds covers all four, with an example of what each is good for.

3 · Every Paper is already filed

A Paper belongs to a client from the moment it exists, so it lands in that client's folders on its own — whether it came from a link you sent, from the client's portal, or from you creating it by hand. There is no folder to pick afterwards.

Open a person and everything you have for them is there. Clients covers how people arrive and how their documents stay sorted.