A Done check asks the room to say when they have finished. It lives in the palette's Tools category, one of the six Collaborate categories. Its title reads "Everyone done?" until you give it a label of your own, such as "Finished writing?".
Marking yourself done
Everyone presses I'm done on the card. A ring fills as people finish, with the count in the middle, and beside it two lists: Done, and Waiting for the people it is still waiting on. When the last person marks themselves done the ring turns into a big check, the card reads "Everyone's done!", a burst of confetti goes off and the card flashes, so you do not have to sit watching it.
Press I'm not done to take your mark off again.
The waiting list is who is here now
The waiting list is built from whoever is actually in the room at that moment, not from everyone who has ever opened the document. That is deliberate: it means somebody who closed their tab stops holding the card open, and the check can actually finish. If they come back their mark is still there.
With nobody in the room the card says "Nobody here yet" rather than drawing an empty ring, and it never counts an empty room as done.
Running the next round
The … before the card's title has Clear My Mark (when you have one) and Reset Everyone, which clears the round so you can run the next one, plus All Settings… for the full menu. While somebody holds the facilitator role, resetting the round is theirs to do; anyone can still mark themselves done.
The card is a fixed size, so it has no resize handles. On a view-only link you can watch it fill, but the button is greyed out.
Good over a silent-writing block, a review column, or any "tell me when you're ready" moment.
Was this article helpful?