Editing cells
A cell is the smallest unit you translate: one paired piece of source and target text. Editing is meant to feel direct — click into a cell’s target side and type.
There is no Save button
Section titled “There is no Save button”Aquilla saves your work automatically. Your edit becomes a durable record when you naturally move on from the cell — when it loses focus, after a short idle pause, or when you release the edit. There’s nothing to commit, push, or publish.
This is a deliberate difference from the older Codex editor: no Ctrl+S, no
“commit all”, no “publish”. You translate, you move on, and it’s saved.
Saved locally first, then synced
Section titled “Saved locally first, then synced”When you make an edit, Aquilla first writes it to a local outbox in your browser, then sends it to the server when the connection is healthy. The benefit: a brief network drop won’t lose your work — your edits wait safely in the outbox and drain out once you’re back online.
A status indicator shows the current sync state — synced, queued, or offline — so you always know whether your latest edits have reached the server. See Real-time sync & presence.
The cell detail panel
Section titled “The cell detail panel”Click a cell to expand its detail panel, with tabs for:
- back-translation — an AI translation of your target back into the source language, to sanity-check meaning;
- audio — recordings and text-to-speech for the cell;
- issues — any check violations on the cell; and
- history — how the cell’s text has changed over time.
The action rail (AI, audio, comments) appears when you hover or focus a cell.
What if two people edit the same cell?
Section titled “What if two people edit the same cell?”While you’re focused on a cell, your client holds a brief, soft focus lock, and teammates see that you’re editing it — so collisions are rare by design.
If two people do edit the same cell while offline, Aquilla keeps it simple: the first edit to reach the server “wins” and becomes the cell’s current value. The other edit isn’t thrown away — it’s preserved in the cell’s history as a recoverable earlier version, so nothing is lost.