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A restyle for GitBook Assistant, improved menus and more

25 November: We’ve updated the look and feel of GitBook Assistant to give your content more space, added new menus across the app with a number of improvements, and released a ton of fixes

A more polished Assistant experience

We’ve improved the style and layout of GitBook Assistant to make it more minimal and to give your content more space. The Assistant now appears as a full-length sidebar, nudging your content over while keeping a great layout no matter the size of your screen.

You might also notice that the styling subtly matches your site’s primary color — so the Assistant blends perfectly into your site and feels more branded to your docs.

You’ll also notice improved scroll effects on the chat stream and updated animations that are smoother and, frankly, prettier when answers appear ✨ Plus, there are now up and down buttons for easy navigation through your chat log.

Hit Ask at the top of this page to try the latest Assistant improvements for yourself!

Improved menus across the app

Every menu in the GitBook app has been updated with new features, improved UI and better accessibility.

First, menus now have better focus management — so you can navigate using your keyboard, and if you use your mouse, focus will remain more consistent even when selecting from submenus.

We’ve also added search to every menu. So when you open a menu, you can just start typing to narrow down the options you see.

This search also includes submenu entries. So if you open a space’s Actions menu and type ‘Share’ it will show not only the Share menu item, but also the two submenu items within it — so you can quickly find and select what you need without much manual navigation.

These changes are live now across all menus in the app, so give them a try today.

Improved

  • We’ve tweaked the prompt used for GitBook Assistant to improve the page context and reduce the number of repeated searches. We’re constantly improving this, so there’ll be more fine tuning in the coming weeks and months.

  • Part improvement, part fix: We’ve added another filter to all the charts in the Traffic page in your site’s Insights panel. Before, the page only filtered the first chart to show page events — other charts didn’t have this filter, which resulted in some inconsistencies.

Fixed

  • Fixed a bug that would occur when some blocks (e.g. stepper, quote) only had a single block inside and you tried to open the Block options palette for that single block. Rather than the child block being selected, it would select the parent block. Now it will select the child block as expected.

  • Fixed the padding that appeared around the image options toolbar with a recent update.

  • Added aliases to the code block syntax selection menu, and fixed an issue that meant the text was too light.

  • Fixed the Share modal not showing members who have read access to a space due to the space being published to a site.

  • Fixed an issue that meant repos with multiple project directories could sometimes have their assets deduplicated in a strange way after our recent deduplication update. Now imports can happen from outside the project directory, and on export any files imported from outside the project directory will be copied into the project directory to correct its path.

  • Fixed a bug in the editor that meant you couldn’t edit a page slug on long, nested paths. Now the slug text entry box will be split equally and you can view the full nested slug in a tooltip when hovering over that section of the box.

  • Fixed an issue that meant it could be difficult to see menu items in Firefox due to the browser’s CSS scroll fade appearing incorrectly.

  • Fixed the position of the sidebar’s Drag to resize trigger area. It’s now aligned with the edge of the sidebar, making it easier to grab.

  • Fixed a bug that meant the inline formatting palette could overflow off the side of the screen. It now stays neatly in bounds, and flips to below your selected text if there isn’t room above it.

We’re constantly working to improve the way you and your team work in GitBook, and value your input on features, bugs, and more. Make sure you head to our official GitBook community to join the discussion.

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