Templates
Templates are the reusable forms behind every Paper. Creating, editing, and deleting them takes seconds — but a couple of choices have consequences worth knowing.
1 · Create a template
From the dashboard sidebar, open Templates. You have two starting points: blank, or the Template Market — Pocper's built-in catalog of ready-made forms organized by industry. Adopting a market template creates your own editable copy; you're not linking to the original, so anything you change stays yours.
Every template belongs to a Template Folder — a named bundle of related forms (Onboarding, Intake, Year-end review, whatever your workflow needs). Pick an existing folder or create a new one as part of the flow. The template starts auto-saving the moment you give it a name; there is no save button.
2 · Edit a template
Open any template to enter the editor. The document reads like a normal page of prose — click and type, drag to select, the usual stuff. To add a fillable block, type a slash on a blank line and pick from the menu: Short Input, Long Input, Date Selector, Upload File, Checkbox. Markdown shortcuts work too — "# " turns a line into a heading, "- " into a bullet.
Edits go live the moment you make them. Teammates with edit access can work in the same document and you'll see their cursor in real time. There is no draft mode and no save button; every keystroke is the saved state.
3 · Delete a template
In the template list under its Template Folder, open the ⋮ menu on the template you want to remove and choose Delete. It disappears from the list immediately.
Papers that were already created from the template stay where they are. They keep their content, their statuses, and their share links — deleting the template doesn't reach back to alter or remove them. Future Papers, however, can no longer be created from a deleted template.
What's next
Once a template is in good shape, papers are the filled-out copies that come out of it — where they come from, the states they pass through, and how editing one feels.