I need to show what the page looked like last month

Your boss pings you. "What did the old headline say? I want to compare signups before and after." You remember it was different. You even remember liking it. But the designer only has the new version, and the old one is simply gone.

Of course this comes up ten minutes before the meeting. It always does.

Where I'd look first

Start with Slack and your ticket tool. Search for the page name, because somebody might have pasted a screenshot during the last review. Public pages sometimes show up in the Wayback Machine, so try that next and pick the closest date. Failing both, dig through the CMS or the code history. You'll find the old words there, just not what the page looked like.

Any of these might come up empty. So let's fix it for next time.

So it doesn't happen again

You don't want a whole archiving project. Nobody keeps those up. What helps is something that keeps a copy while you're doing your normal work anyway.

That's a happy side effect of Lasso. When you leave a comment, it grabs a screenshot of that spot right then. Reviewing a page, snooping on a competitor, leaving the team a note, it doesn't matter. The version you saw gets saved with the note.

So in six months, you open the collection and there's the old headline, sitting next to whatever someone said about it at the time.

Is it a complete archive? No. Pages nobody commented on aren't saved. But when the "what did it say" question comes up, it's usually about a part people talked about, and those are exactly the ones you'll have.