GETTING STARTED

welcome to cryptee documents!

you can access all your documents, files & folders from the left sidebar, which you can open by pressing the > button on the bottom left, or by scrolling right using your mouse, or by swiping right on your touch devices.

on your desktop/tablet devices you may also leave the sidebar open by pressing the pin button.

creating
folders

to create a new folder, first navigate to your folders, by pressing the folders button.

then, press the button to create a new folder. you can create folders inside other folders to organize things better.

creating
documents

to create a new document inside a folder, you can press the button.

you can also quickly create new documents any time, even if you're not in a folder, (i.e. while browsing your recent documents) then, your document will be created in a special folder called "Inbox".

uploading files (i.e. a pdf file)

first, navigate to the folder you'd like to upload your files. then, you can either press the upload button, or simply drag & drop your files from your computer / tablet / phone into the folder.

you can also drag & drop files from your device onto a document while editing it, and your files will be uploaded into the same folder as your document & automatically attached to your document.

browsing documents,
files & folders

to save time, you can access all your recent documents from the last 3 months in the recent documents section on the left sidebar

you can browse your folders, and all your documents & files in them, in the folders section on the left sidebar

organizing documents
files & folders

you may sort your folders using the sort button, which will sort your folder's contents in the following ways:

A–Z or Z-A by name,

Recent–Old or Old–Recent by time,

and A–Z or Z-A grouped by your files' extensions. (i.e. ".doc", ".jpg", ".mp4", ".pdf", ".zip" etc).

taking actions on files & folders

to take actions on your documents, files & folders, like rename, move, delete etc, you can either right click on them, or press the button next to them.

selecting multiple documents & files

to select multiple documents & files, you can click on their icons and their icons will switch from to to indicate that they are selected.

After selecting the first file, you can also use familiar shortcuts like ctrl + a or shift + click to select more things easily.

FINALLY

if you want to learn more or need help with something, you can visit our helpdesk any time, by pressing the button on the bottom right.

we prepared hundreds of help articles, tutorials & migration guides to make your move to cryptee easier and your experience more enjoyable.

needless to say, if you can't find what you're looking for, you can always contact us for more support from our helpdesk.

SEARCH TIPS & EXAMPLES

cryptee has an intelligent search engine that helps you quickly find what you're looking for and fine-tune your search results.

here are some tips & examples for you to make the most out of cryptee's intelligent search engine.

FUZZY SEARCH

will find everything that's almost like "cost". i.e.:

FILE-TYPE SEARCH

cryptee can recognize tens of thousands of different file extensions, so for example, it knows that an "image" can be "jpg", "png", "heic", "arw" etc. all you have to do is type "image", and cryptee will find all image files like :

FILE-TYPE SEARCH

you can also type things like "book", "novel", "adobe", "office" etc and cryptee will find ".epub", ".pdf", or ".doc" files respectively. you can do this with hundreds of different keywords, for tens of thousands of different file extensions.

EXACT SEARCH

will find items that are exactly and only "cost". i.e.:

but it will not find:

SPECIFIED SEARCH

will find items that have both "class" and "notes". i.e.:

but it will not find:

EXACT WITH SPACES

will find items that are exactly and only "class notes". i.e.:

but it will not find:

BROADEN SEARCH

will find items that have "class" or "notes". i.e.:

EXCLUDE FROM SEARCH

will find items that have "project", excluding results that contain "presentation". i.e.:

but these will be excluded:

PREFIX SEARCH

will only find items that start with "han" i.e.:

but the following will be excluded, since they don't start with "han", although they contain "han":

EXCLUDE PREFIX SEARCH

will only find items that have "cv" and don't start with "han" i.e.:

but the following will be excluded, since it does start with "han", although it contains "cv" & "han":

POSTFIX/SUFFIX SEARCH

will only find items that end with "beth" i.e.:

but the following will be excluded, since they don't end with "beth", although they contain "beth":

EXTENSION SEARCH

will only find files with ".doc" extensions i.e.:

but the following will be excluded, since it doesn't have a ".doc" extension, although it contains ".doc" in its name:

SEARCH HOTKEYS & SHORTCUTS

once you've found what you're looking for, you can use :

– your keyboard's arrow keys ( ↑ ↓ ) to navigate the search results

– press enter/return (⏎) to open the selected search result

– press shift + ⏎ to attach/link the selected search result into your currently open document

NEED MORE WAYS TO SEARCH?

if you need more ways to search, contact us via our helpdesk. we might be able to make your dreams come true. unless, that dream is: finding documents by searching for their text contents. this is sadly mathematically impossible due to how on-device encryption works. you can read more about why this is the case in our help center. (search for an article using this keyword: "text content")