Saving and managing documents · Sketch

Once you’ve created a document, here’s how to save, organize, and manage it over time.
To save a new document to your Workspace, choose File > Save (⌘S) to open the Workspace window. Give your document a name and click Save. You can also save it to a specific folder — click the + next to the folder list to create a new one.
Once you’ve saved your document, it automatically saves your progress in the background as you work — no need to manually save again.
How to save a document to your Workspace in the Mac app
You can also use ⌃⌘S to add a star or a version description to a Workspace document.
If you close a document while it’s saving to your Workspace, we’ll ask you whether you want to wait for the save to complete or cancel it. If you select Close and Cancel, the update will not upload to your Workspace.
Other ways to save to your Workspace
You can also save a document to your Workspace by clicking the Collaborate button in the toolbar , choosing a Workspace and a folder (if you’ve created one), then clicking Save.
Or drag one or more local documents onto the Workspace window — you’ll be able to choose a Workspace and folder to save them to.
To save locally, click Save to Your Mac in the bottom left corner of the Workspace window, or select File > Save to Your Mac in the menu bar.
You can set Sketch to save documents locally by default using the Open & Save To preference in Settings.
If you’re using a Mac-only license, you’ll see the native macOS saving dialog instead of the Workspace window when you save.
In My Drafts, you can store documents and Libraries that aren’t ready to share with the rest of your Workspace yet. By default, only you can access what you save here.
If you leave a Workspace, are removed from one, or delete your account, your drafts become accessible to Workspace admins.
In the Mac app, you’ll see My Drafts in the sidebar of the Workspace window. You can also access it from the sidebar in the web app.
Where to find the My Drafts folder in the web app
You can save a new draft document to My Drafts just as you would save any other document to a Workspace. In the Mac app, select File > Save or press ⌘S. In the menu that appears, select Workspace, choose the Workspace in which you want to save your document, and select My Drafts from the dropdown menu.
Alternatively, drag and drop documents from your desktop into My Drafts in the Workspace window of the Mac app.
How to save a document to the My Drafts folder from the Mac app
To share a document in My Drafts, you can invite people in that document’s individual share settings, or move it to another location in your shared Workspace. People you invite will see your document in their Shared with Me tab.
In the web app, you can move documents from My Drafts by hovering over the document’s thumbnail, clicking the icon and choosing Move. From there, you can move the document to a folder in the same Drafts, a shared folder in the same Workspace, or the My Drafts folder of any other Workspaces where you are also an Editor.
If you move a document out of My Drafts, everyone in your Workspace will be able to view it and Editors will be able to open it in the Mac app.
How to share a draft document with others by moving it to a shared folder
You can delete a draft in the same way that you delete any other document. When you delete a draft it will remain in your Workspace’s Trash for 90 days, but only you will be able to see it there.
Choose File > Rename, enter the document’s new name in the Title Bar, then press Enter to save.
You can also rename documents from the Workspace window. Right-click or ⌃-click over a document’s thumbnail and select Rename.
How to rename a Workspace document in the Mac app
How to rename a document in the web app
Use the search bar in the top-right of the Workspace window to find documents by name or by the author of the latest update. Your search stays in place when you switch between sidebar views, such as Recents, All Documents, or Shared with Me.
How to search by author of the latest update of a document in the Workspace window
Use the search bar to find documents by name or author, and choose whether to search within a specific folder or across all documents in your Workspace.
Search results are filtered based on the view you’re currently browsing in. For example, if you’re viewing a specific folder, searching here will only give you results from that folder.
You can pin important documents to the top of the list in the web app and Workspace window in the Mac app. Pinned items are personal to you, so you can use them in whatever way suits your workflow best.
Open the Workspace window, right-click on a document thumbnail and select Pin Document. To unpin it, follow the same steps and select Unpin Document.
Hover over a document’s thumbnail, click and select Pin Document. To unpin it, follow the same steps and select Unpin Document.
You can set any frame within a document as a preview thumbnail. The thumbnail will appear in the web app, Mac app, iOS app, and in Finder. To use a specific frame as the preview thumbnail for a document, Control-click on its name on the Canvas or in the Layer List and select Set As Thumbnail from the contextual menu. Selecting the option again will remove it from the frame.
If you don’t select a frame for a thumbnail, it automatically uses the first frame of the first page in your document — provided its dimensions are at least 250×250px.
Occasionally you may want to duplicate a Workspace document to work on it separately. You can duplicate documents from the Mac app or from your web browser. Duplicate documents are always based on the original document’s most recent version.
Open the document you want to duplicate and select File > Duplicate in the menu bar or press ⇧⌘S. This will create a copy you can edit further or save right away in your Workspace or locally on your Mac.
When you duplicate from the Workspace window, the copy will be automatically saved in the My Drafts