This is another post that acts as a great cheat sheet while you surf the wave. Credit for this info belongs to Ross Gardler as it is his “Wave” that holds this info.
A wave of notes on using Google Wave.
The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Share-Alike license.You are considered to agree to that by editing.
Comments and questions will occasionally be changed up and conclusions will be incorporated into the original wave. On “Wave” you can see the playback of how the doc developed over time.
Terminology
The language used within waves is confusing, here’s a quick overview of the common terms.
Wave (with a capital W): the system / protocol we are using
wave
the whole entity
a conversation (or, maybe, a babble 
A tree of threaded messages.
wavelet
a subset of the wave which has its own list of participants and associated documents
wave server
An internet host (or hosts) that supports an application using the wave protocols.
A wave server has some number of wave users with accounts on that server.
A wave server may be federated with some number of other servers to enable users at other servers to collaborate.
A wave server knows about some number of waves.
For waves originally created on a given wave server that server plays a unique role in coordinating the edits to the wave.
document (informally blip)
each discrete element in a wave
can be a text document or a data document
ripple (suggested) within a wavelet
a document (blip) and all its descendants
Playback
allows one to see the building of a wave, to see how a conversation has developed.
See Also
http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html#WaveEntities
[Evolving Google Wave Terminology]
Editing
To edit the original content of the wave, select the document (blip) you want to edit and click the pencil icon in the top right of the wave.
If you can’t see the icon scroll all the way up to the top right corner of the wave (shouldn’t the pencil be visible anytime you hover over a wave?)
Keyboard shortcut: Select the document and press Ctrl-e.
To save your edits, scroll all the way down and click Done.
Keyboard shorcut: Shift-enter.
To comment on the wave as a whole, click the arrow on the left of the pencil icon.
If you can’t find the icon scroll up and up and up and up.
Keyboard shortcut: Press the Reply command button at the top of the wave.
To comment on a specific document in the wave, highlight the document in question and click the arrow next to the pencil.
To reply to a previous comment, click the arrow next to the pencil icon in the comment.
Or, select the document you want to reply to and press Enter. One method creates siblings, and one method indents.
Inline comments can be collapsed/expanded by clicking on the speech bubbles
To comment inline, open the document in edit mode. Move the cursor to the spot where you want to insert the comment. Press Ctrl-enter.
Note: The cursor will be wherever the previous author left it…typically at the end of the document unless they’ve gone back to edit. If you move the cursor by spaces or return, you will have actually edited the document and be added as a participant. If that’s not what you want, be careful how you move the cursor.
SHIFT+ENTER ends editing
SHIFT+ENTER while not editing creates a new comment at the same level as the selected item
CTRL-ENTER creates an inline comment
Create links by entering text, highlighting the link text and pressing CTRL-L
you can link to a wave using the wave ID which you can find using the Debug -> Get Current Wave ID
Creating Waves
Click “New Wave” and start editing
Add people to collaborate on the wave by dragging and dropping from contacts or using the Add button in the wave panel
Finding Waves
See Simple Public Forums to learn how to create public waves and discussion groups by topic. For example:
with:public tag:gadget-dev
with:public tag:help
Search is your friend.
You can save user-defined searches which will then be available in “searches” in the Navigation panel.
Tips
Read the Search Cheat Sheet
If you want everyone to be able to see your wave add public@a.gwave.com to your contacts, and then add it to your wave. You will not see it in the participants list, but if there is a yellow bar with ‘The wave is published at an unknown url.’ in it, then your wave is published for everyone who search for with:public
The old wave-discuss@wavesandbox.com robot that provided the public wave functionality is now deprecated.
Reading
Your Search pane will show how many messages are unread in a wave (the first number in green is unread, the second number in grey is the total)
In your navigation pane items that have unread waves in them will show with a green background.
Tips
Space bar (when in the inbox pane) will open the first wave with an unread message
Space bar (when in a wave) will go to the next unread message
Managing Real Estate
Minimizing a panel moves it to the top “bar” and all remaining panels increase in size
Click the down arrow on a minimized panel to “quick view”
Click the maximize icon on a minimized panel to restore it
Resize panels with drag and drop on their left/right edges
Tips
CTRL-<LEFT CLICK> on a wave in your inbox will open it without closing other waves
When a panel is minimized it will still appear in you inbox but cannot be opened by clicking on it, you must quick view or maximize it
Keeping the navigation and contacts panels minimized and using the down arrow for quick view is very convenient – most of the time you don’t need these panels
Managing Waves
Delete a Wave
Note, deleting does not work yet see Known Issues with Wave.
Drag the wave from the search panel to the Trash icon in the Navigation panel
or, Open the waveand select delete from the edit menu (click the down arrow next to the edit pencil)
Folders
Presumably, these are handy to organise waves of interest into different categories? Like mail folder, but with a wave being held in multiple places?
Create a folder by clicking Add in the folders section of the navigation panel
Add waves to it using the folder button in the toolbar (when not editing)
Clicking on a folder will filter your search panel results for items in that folder
Tags
Add tags to a wave using the blue plus in the bottom bar of the wave
Remove tags by clicking the ‘x’ that appears when you hover the mouse over a tag
Search for waves with a tag using “tags:foo”
Tags are listed in the blue bar at the bottom of the wave
Saved Searches
Create a saved search by clicking Add in the search section of the navigation panel
Clicking on a saved search will filter the search panel results accordingly
Deleting All Unread Messages in Inbox
Create a new Search (click the +ADD button on the left bar).
Enter a name for the search, such as “Clear Inbox”
Enter ‘in:inbox is:unread past:7days -is:mail‘ as the search criteria. (I think -is:mail is no longer working and keeps read messages popping into the list, but YMMV)
Now when you click the “Clear Inbox” search will mark everything as unread for 7 days as read
Contacts
Managing Contacts
When you see someone in a wave that you want to add to your contacts click their icon and then click “Add to contacts”
Click Add button in the tool bar
Managing Your Own Details
Add a profile picture
click on the icon at the top of the Contacts Panel
click change photo
In the settings that open up click Change Pucture
If you want your icon to be visible to everyone be sure to click the visible to everyone option
Groups
There are a few predefined groups provided.
You can create new groups by adding the ‘groupy’ bot (groupy-robot@appspot.com). Search for ‘groupy’ to get more details. In fact, all you need to do is to start new wave and add groupy-robot@appspot.com as participant, then Groupy will fill root blip with template including instructions.
Extensions!
Finding Extensions
Installing Robots
Find the address of the robot you want (see http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/results?api=Robots)
Tweety allows you to create a wave of twitters: tweety-wave@appspot.com
Bloggy sends the contents of a wave to a blog: blog-wave@appspot.com
Add the robot to your contacts
Create your wave and add them as a participant in the wave
Installing Gadgets
Find the extension you want
See the Wave Extensions Wave
See http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/ for more
This link seems to be broken.. (link replaced).
Other Instruction Waves
Search for tag:welcomewaves (to search waves in your account)
Search with:public tag:welcomwaves (to search all public waves)
One of the best introductory waves is Google Wave Portal because it links to waves and non-wave resources.
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