Moment docs are plain-old Markdown files, stored in a git repository, on your device. In this guide, we will create a Moment doc, apply basic text formatting, commit the changes with git, and inspect the underlying Markdown files as they exist on your local device storage.

Create a new Moment doc

After you download and install the Moment desktop app, and then run it, you will see a screen like the following. Click either of the New Document buttons.

Once done, you will see an empty Moment doc:

Add and format some text

Moment docs are ultimately Markdown files, and they support Markdown syntax natively. See the Editing and formatting reference for more details.

Try the following to put the editor through its paces:

Highlight some text to the rich text toolbar. You can use this to make text bold, italic, strikethrough, block quote, bullet lists, and so on.

Commit your changes

Once you have added some text, click the button in the bottom left that says Commit draft.

This will bring up the commit modal. To commit changes, type a commit message describing your changes in the field in the upper left, and click Commit to main. In the following example, we’ve added the commit message My first commit.

💡 What is all that stuff in the commit UI? For a more detailed explanation, consult the Committing changes guide!

Once committed, you can press Escape or click the close button in the upper right to dismiss the modal and go back to editing the Moment doc.

Inspecting the files on disk

Because Moment docs are plain-old Markdown files stored on your device, we can inspect and interact with them as we do with any other files. To do this click the overflow menu in the upper left, next to the Moment doc title. You will see two options:

Clicking either of these will allow you to inspect the document, for example, as follows:

Next steps