# Using Docs

Common ways teams use Shortcut Docs for action items, release notes, meeting minutes, marketing drafts, and collaborative planning.

## Use Cases

Shortcut Docs is a free-form document editor for documentation, ideation, and collaboration. You can use Docs to house any internal documentation that you would like to share or reference anywhere in Shortcut.

Here are a few ways our team uses Docs:

* **Action items** — Create a simple, clean list of action items and link them to Stories or Epics as work gets picked up.
* **Release notes** — House release notes in a Doc and attach it to the relevant Epic or Iteration so the whole team has a single source of truth.
* **Meeting minutes** — Share meeting minutes in a Doc and @mention teammates to call out follow-ups.
* **Marketing and blog drafts** — Draft marketing copy and blog posts collaboratively before work moves into Stories.
* **Team goals** — Plan team goals in a living, collaborative document and link the Doc to Objectives to keep strategy and execution connected.

## Best Practices

* Attach Docs directly to Stories, Epics, and Objectives as your primary form of organization. Collections are a great secondary layer. Use Sub-Collections for an additional level of hierarchy within a Collection.
* Keep your Collection list short and intentional. Align your team on a plan before creating them.
* Adopt a naming convention for consistency. The Shortcut team prefixes by team name, for example "Build: PRDs" or "Build: Key Workflows."
* Revision history is not yet available for Docs. If you experience data loss, contact Support@shortcut.com and we can attempt to restore a previous version.