More than one person can work in the same workspace at the same time. Documents update live for everyone looking at them. Saved form changes refresh other open views, while unsaved typing remains local.

Collaboration follows the same access rules as everything else: people only see and edit the records their permissions allow.

A page or project document can be edited by several people at once. Changes appear as they are made, and each person’s edits show in their own color so it is clear who is writing where.

Concurrent edits merge rather than overwrite each other, so two people typing in the same document do not clobber one another’s work or need to take turns.

Structured forms use explicit saves rather than character-by-character collaboration. After someone saves, the new values appear for other open viewers without reloading the page. Unsaved typing stays local; if the saved record changes elsewhere, Lagniappe protects the local draft for review instead of silently replacing it.

When others are viewing the same collaborative document, you can see who is there. That makes it easy to notice when a colleague is already working in the document before you both start editing.

Lagniappe includes lightweight direct messages for short conversations between users. The Messages view keeps each conversation together and shows unread activity without replacing a different conversation you are currently reading.

In a collaborative document, type @ and choose a user to mention them. The mention links to that user’s page and creates a notification, subject to the same document permissions and recipient preferences as the rest of the workspace.

Direct messages, document mentions, and task assignments create in-app notifications. The notification menu keeps an unread count and links back to the relevant conversation, document, or task.

On your own personal page, User Settings controls whether notification email is disabled, sent after five minutes, or collected in a daily digest at 8:00 AM local time. This preference changes email delivery, not the in-app notification.

Previously viewed pages remain readable while the server is waking or the network is unavailable. If your connection drops mid-edit, document changes and supported form submissions are queued on your device and replayed when you come back online. Other actions wait until the server is reachable.

It is also a progressive web app, so you can install it straight from the browser and run it like a native app — pinned to a phone or tablet home screen, or opened from the desktop in its own window. Installed or not, it caches what it needs to stay responsive between requests.

Because Lagniappe runs on App Engine, open views check a single adaptive polling endpoint rather than holding a persistent connection. Document editors and active background jobs check quickly; quiet views progressively check less often.

• Live document editing and presence work best for a handful of people, not large simultaneous crowds.
• Offline edits are held on the device that made them; they replay from that device when it reconnects.
• Visibility still comes from permissions — collaboration never widens who can see a document or form.
• Direct messages are intentionally lightweight and polling-based, not a full Slack-style real-time chat product.