diff --git a/packages/outline-playground/src/useTypeahead.js b/packages/outline-playground/src/useTypeahead.js
index e65d14e0d..42c9681db 100644
--- a/packages/outline-playground/src/useTypeahead.js
+++ b/packages/outline-playground/src/useTypeahead.js
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ export default function useTypeahead(editor: OutlineEditor): void {
   // Monitor entered text
   useEffect(() => {
     return editor.addListener('update', (viewModel) => {
-      const text = editor.getTextContent();
+      const text = editor.getCurrentTextContent();
       setText(text);
     });
   }, [editor]);
diff --git a/packages/outline-react/src/useOutlineCharacterLimit.js b/packages/outline-react/src/useOutlineCharacterLimit.js
index 5f672c64d..38eb025d2 100644
--- a/packages/outline-react/src/useOutlineCharacterLimit.js
+++ b/packages/outline-react/src/useOutlineCharacterLimit.js
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ export function useCharacterLimit(
     const Segmenter = Intl.Segmenter;
     let offsetUtf16 = 0;
     let offset = 0;
-    const text = editor.getTextContent();
+    const text = editor.getCurrentTextContent();
     if (typeof Segmenter === 'function') {
       const segmenter = new Segmenter();
       const graphemes = segmenter.segment(text);
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ export function useCharacterLimit(
   useEffect(() => {
     editor.registerNodeType('overflow', OverflowNode);
     (() => {
-      const textLength = strlen(editor.getTextContent());
+      const textLength = strlen(editor.getCurrentTextContent());
       const diff = maxCharacters - textLength;
       remainingCharacters(diff);
       execute();
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ export function useCharacterLimit(
       'update',
       (viewModel: ViewModel, dirtyNodes: Set<NodeKey> | null) => {
         const isComposing = editor.isComposing();
-        const text = editor.getTextContent();
+        const text = editor.getCurrentTextContent();
         const utf16TextLength = text.length;
         const hasDirtyNodes = dirtyNodes !== null && dirtyNodes.size > 0;
         if (
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ export function useCharacterLimit(
         ) {
           return;
         }
-        const textLength = strlen(editor.getTextContent());
+        const textLength = strlen(editor.getCurrentTextContent());
         const textLengthAboveThreshold =
           textLength > maxCharacters ||
           (lastTextLength !== null && lastTextLength > maxCharacters);
diff --git a/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineEditor.test.js b/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineEditor.test.js
index 649744465..7e94305c9 100644
--- a/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineEditor.test.js
+++ b/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineEditor.test.js
@@ -507,6 +507,32 @@ describe('OutlineEditor tests', () => {
         expect(parsedSelection.focus.key).toEqual(parsedText.__key);
       });
     });
+
+    it('getCurrentTextContent() / getLatestTextContent()', async () => {
+      editor.update((view: View) => {
+        const root = view.getRoot();
+        const paragraph = createParagraphNode();
+        const text1 = createTextNode('1');
+        root.append(paragraph);
+        paragraph.append(text1);
+      });
+      editor.update((view: View) => {
+        const root = view.getRoot();
+        const paragraph = root.getFirstChild();
+        const text2 = createTextNode('2');
+        paragraph.append(text2);
+      });
+
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('');
+      expect(
+        editor.getLatestTextContent((text) => {
+          expect(text).toBe('12');
+        }),
+      );
+
+      await Promise.resolve();
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('12');
+    });
   });
 
   describe('Node children', () => {
@@ -575,7 +601,7 @@ describe('OutlineEditor tests', () => {
             textToKey.set(previousText, textNode.__key);
           }
         });
-        expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe(previous.join(''));
+        expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe(previous.join(''));
 
         // Next editor state
         const previousSet = new Set(previous);
@@ -609,7 +635,7 @@ describe('OutlineEditor tests', () => {
           });
         });
         // Expect text content + HTML to be correct
-        expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe(next.join(''));
+        expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe(next.join(''));
         expect(container.innerHTML).toBe(
           `<div contenteditable="true" data-outline-editor="true"><p>${
             next.length > 0
diff --git a/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineTextNode.test.js b/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineTextNode.test.js
index 9b3ed5c7f..d9a54747e 100644
--- a/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineTextNode.test.js
+++ b/packages/outline/src/__tests__/unit/OutlineTextNode.test.js
@@ -118,13 +118,13 @@ describe('OutlineTextNode tests', () => {
         view.getRoot().getFirstChild().append(textNode);
       });
 
-      expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe('Text');
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('Text');
 
       // Make sure that the editor content is still set after further reconciliations
       await update((view) => {
         view.markNodeAsDirty(view.getNodeByKey(nodeKey));
       });
-      expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe('Text');
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('Text');
     });
 
     test('inert nodes', async () => {
@@ -140,13 +140,13 @@ describe('OutlineTextNode tests', () => {
         view.getRoot().getFirstChild().append(textNode);
       });
 
-      expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe('');
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('');
 
       // Make sure that the editor content is still empty after further reconciliations
       await update((view) => {
         view.markNodeAsDirty(view.getNodeByKey(nodeKey));
       });
-      expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe('');
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('');
     });
 
     test('prepend node', async () => {
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@ describe('OutlineTextNode tests', () => {
         previousTextNode.insertBefore(textNode);
       });
 
-      expect(editor.getTextContent()).toBe('Hello World');
+      expect(editor.getCurrentTextContent()).toBe('Hello World');
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/packages/outline/src/core/OutlineEditor.js b/packages/outline/src/core/OutlineEditor.js
index ab638d86a..50d394969 100644
--- a/packages/outline/src/core/OutlineEditor.js
+++ b/packages/outline/src/core/OutlineEditor.js
@@ -107,6 +107,22 @@ export type ListenerType =
   | 'root'
   | 'decorator';
 
+let isPreparingPendingViewUpdate = false;
+
+export function asyncErrorOnPreparingPendingViewUpdate(
+  fnName: 'Editor.getLatestTextContent()',
+): void {
+  if (
+    isPreparingPendingViewUpdate &&
+    fnName === 'Editor.getLatestTextContent()'
+  ) {
+    invariant(
+      false,
+      'Editor.getLatestTextContent() can be asynchronous and cannot be used within Editor.update()',
+    );
+  }
+}
+
 export function resetEditor(
   editor: OutlineEditor,
   prevRootElement: null | HTMLElement,
@@ -167,6 +183,7 @@ function updateEditor(
     viewModelWasCloned = true;
   }
 
+  isPreparingPendingViewUpdate = true;
   const error = preparePendingViewUpdate(
     pendingViewModel,
     updateFn,
@@ -174,6 +191,7 @@ function updateEditor(
     markAllTextNodesAsDirty,
     editor,
   );
+  isPreparingPendingViewUpdate = false;
 
   if (error !== null) {
     // Report errors
@@ -326,9 +344,17 @@ class BaseOutlineEditor {
   getRootElement(): null | HTMLElement {
     return this._rootElement;
   }
-  getTextContent(): string {
+  getCurrentTextContent(): string {
     return this._textContent;
   }
+  getLatestTextContent(callback: (text: string) => void): void {
+    asyncErrorOnPreparingPendingViewUpdate('Editor.getLatestTextContent()');
+    if (this._pendingViewModel === null) {
+      callback(this._textContent);
+      return;
+    }
+    this._deferred.push(() => callback(this._textContent));
+  }
   setRootElement(nextRootElement: null | HTMLElement): void {
     const prevRootElement = this._rootElement;
     if (nextRootElement !== prevRootElement) {
@@ -478,7 +504,8 @@ declare export class OutlineEditor {
   getDecorators(): {[NodeKey]: ReactNode};
   getRootElement(): null | HTMLElement;
   setRootElement(rootElement: null | HTMLElement): void;
-  getTextContent(): string;
+  getCurrentTextContent(): string;
+  getLatestTextContent((text: string) => void): () => void;
   getElementByKey(key: NodeKey): null | HTMLElement;
   getViewModel(): ViewModel;
   setViewModel(viewModel: ViewModel): void;
diff --git a/scripts/error-codes/codes.json b/scripts/error-codes/codes.json
index 9b98b2455..80d1312ae 100644
--- a/scripts/error-codes/codes.json
+++ b/scripts/error-codes/codes.json
@@ -46,5 +46,6 @@
   "44": "reconcileNode: prevNode or nextNode does not exist in nodeMap",
   "45": "reconcileNode: parentDOM is null",
   "46": "Reconciliation: could not find DOM element for node key \"${key}\"",
-  "47": "clearEditor expected plain text root first child to be a ParagraphNode"
+  "47": "clearEditor expected plain text root first child to be a ParagraphNode",
+  "48": "Editor.getLatestTextContent() can be asynchronous and cannot be used within Editor.update()"
 }