7 January: Ask AI insights, TOC improvements, an emoji update and more

You can now see insights into what your users are asking in your docs, we’ve made some small improvements to the table of contents, and fixed a few bugs

✨ New and noteworthy

Ask AI insights

You can now see insights for the way that your site visitors are using Ask AI in your docs. It’ll show the most popular questions that users are asking, so you can analyze popular topics and write more content to address them if needed.

Head to your site dashboard and scroll down to see what people have been asking in your docs.

You’ll find the tool in your site’s dashboard with your other site insights. Scroll down to the bottom of your dashboard to see them on the left-hand side.

In-app table of contents improvements

We’ve made a number of small improvements to the table of contents in the editor to make it easier to work with pages in your space:

• Reduced the opacity of pages as you drag them to make it easier to see the content behind them.

• Increased the size of the drop zone when you drag and drop pages to make it easier to move them to the right place.

• Reduced the size of and moved the Add page + button that appears when you hover between pages button to the left of the line, so they don’t obstruct any page titles

These are just two of the small improvements we’ve made to the table of contents.

More familiar emojis

We’ve updated the emojis in published content. They’ll now display as Apple Emoji on Apple devices, and Google’s Noto Color Emoji if the user is not on an Apple device.

Our previous emoji library wasn’t accessible across all browsers, so we’ve switched them to give your users a more consistent experience.

We’ll soon update the emojis within the app to use these same sets so you can see an accurate representation of your published content.

Improved

• We’ve refactored the table of contents, so you can now click to open it as a menu on smaller screens, such as on mobile.

• Organization members with Edit permissions or higher will now see hidden pages in the sidebar, even outside of change requests.

• Members with permission lower than Reviewer will no longer appear when requesting a review in a change request, so you will only be able to ask for reviews from people who can complete them for you.

• We’ve improved the way that different kinds of lists work together, so you can now create different types of lists on the line below another list.

• If a user types a question that is unrelated to any content in your documentation, GitBook AI will no longer suggest follow-up questions on the same topic — so they’ll no longer see more unanswerable questions.

• GitBook now supports Cmd + Y and Cmd + Shift + Z on Mac and Windows (Ctrl instead of Cmd) to complete the Redo command.

Fixed

• Fixed grouping in the site settings menu when using a narrow viewport, such as on mobile, to make it easier to find the settings you need.

• Fixed a bug that sometimes showed multiple tables of content on the screen at the same time.

• Fixed a bug that sometimes caused updated content not to appear when you merged a change request.

• Fixed a bug with stepper and tab blocks that meant you couldn’t insert reusable content using the < key, and could instead only add it using drag and drop.

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