Drafts, saving and history

Pixl keeps two stages of your work. A draft is the drawing you are working on. Save creates or updates the Pixl other parts of Glob Social use. You can have unsaved draft changes after making a saved version.

Autosaved drafts#

After you pause drawing, the editor sends the draft to your account. Drawing changes normally wait about 1.5 seconds; view changes such as zoom or scrolling wait longer. Closing the editor also starts a draft write.

The draft includes the layers, frames, name and working settings needed to resume. Drafts that reached your account can be reopened on another device. A failed upload cannot follow you until it has been sent.

Open Drafts on the dock’s Pixl card. Each entry shows its name, or Resume draft, and an updated time. Choose it to resume, or use Delete draft to discard it. The draft already open is left out of that popup, so an empty list can mean there are no other drafts.

Drafts are working copies, so deleting one does not mean deleting a saved Pixl. To remove saved artwork, use its own delete action and read any in-use warning.

Save the artwork#

For an ordinary drawing, press the toolbar’s Save icon, choose Save in the Pixl tab or press Ctrl+S (Command+S on a Mac). The editor stays open. A first save creates the Pixl; later saves update that same artwork.

The toolbar changes from Saving… to Saved. It is disabled with Nothing new to save when the saved drawing and name already match the current work.

The Pixl tab’s Save section distinguishes:

Changing a view, colour slot or tool is useful draft state, but it does not by itself create a changed saved picture.

Save as new Pixl creates a separate artwork from the current drawing. A named copy gets “copy” added to its name. Use it when you want to keep the current saved version and develop another direction. This option is for ordinary artwork; it is not offered in every specialised editing flow.

My Pixls lists saved artwork and named drafts with Open. If you open another while the current drawing has unsaved changes, choose Open anyway to keep the current working draft and switch, or Keep editing to stay.

Saving artwork made for a use#

If you opened the editor to place a Pixl, give a node an image, set an avatar or set a cursor, saving also tries that action. The editor can close after completing it. A public use can open the usage choice described in sharing and credit.

The drawing can save successfully even if applying it elsewhere fails. Read the message before trying again. The editor keeps the draft needed to continue the flow.

Updating your own Pixl changes the artwork where its current version is used. For an already shared Pixl, a refused image update leaves the previous saved image in use. There is one separate case: changing the image can succeed and a subsequent rename can fail. That message says The drawing itself is saved; correct the name rather than assuming the picture was lost.

If an upload cannot reach your account#

A failed draft upload can wait in this browser’s queue. The editor says Not saved to your account yet. It’s kept on this device and will be sent when the connection is back.

The queue holds at most 20 drafts and 16 MiB per account in this browser. A newer snapshot of the same draft replaces its older queued snapshot. Existing queued drafts are not removed to make room for a different drawing.

If the editor says this device has no room to keep the draft, keep the editor open until it saves. That drawing may exist only in the open tab.

The app retries connection failures automatically, including when the connection returns, you return to the tab or the same account opens the app again. A refusal such as a full account quota needs you to fix its cause; repeatedly waiting for the network will not resolve it. Change the draft after addressing the refusal to send it again.

Queued work is specific to this browser. It is not a second account copy or an export. For data-handling details, see the Privacy Policy.

Another device or another account#

If another device saved a newer copy of the same draft, the editor says A newer copy of this draft was saved somewhere else. Reopen the draft to see it. Reopen it before continuing. An older queued copy does not replace the newer account draft.

A draft deleted or saved elsewhere is not recreated by an old queued retry. Signing into another account does not make your queued work appear in that account’s draft list; return with the original account to resume it.

Unsent drafts expire after 30 days without a newer queued snapshot. When this browser removes expired queued work, its owner sees a notice on a later editor opening. Do not treat an unsent queue as permanent storage.

Signing out#

Sign-out first tries once more to send waiting work. If your account still has unsent Pixl drafts here, a second question gives the count and asks whether to sign out and delete them.

Choose Cancel to stay signed in and keep them. Confirming proceeds with sign-out and removes this account’s unsent browser copies. Drafts already sent to your account are separate from that queue.

If the session ends on its own, the app cannot ask that question. The waiting queue can resume when the same account signs in again, within its expiry period.

Undo and redo#

Undo takes back drawing and structural changes such as a stroke, frame addition, layer setting or resize. Redo restores an undone edit. A fresh edit clears redo.

History keeps up to 50 steps on either side, within a shared memory budget. Large edits can make fewer steps fit. The oldest steps are removed first. Colour picking and collapsing a group are view or tool choices, rather than drawing edits to undo.

Undo history belongs to this browser and is reused only when it matches the draft. Reopening on another device can recover the drawing without the previous device’s undo path. Signing out clears the signing-out account’s browser history.

For a stroke that crosses several joined tiles, the linked history takes it back across those tiles together. A saved version number records an artwork update; it is not a button for restoring arbitrary older versions.