Web dashboard

The web dashboard at https://anchorify.io/dashboard is the primary surface for non-CLI users. It lists every share you own, lets you publish new shares, and exposes a per-share actions menu for the post-publish edits the CLI also supports.

The /new page#

Click New share from the dashboard, or navigate directly to https://anchorify.io/new.

Input modes#

The form has two ways to provide content:

• Paste — paste content into the textarea. The Filename field above it sets the filename, which drives content-type detection (.md → markdown, .csv → table, etc.). If you leave the filename empty, the server stores the share as markdown by default.
• Upload — pick a file from disk. The browser sends both the file's bytes and its original filename. The filename field is ignored when an upload is present.

You only fill in one — paste content OR upload a file, not both.

Form fields#

• Filename — optional. Used for content-type detection when pasting. Has no effect when uploading.
• Content — the paste textarea, or the file picker.
• Render as — overrides the detected content type. Choose Auto-detect from filename (default) to leave it to the filename, or pick one of markdown, code, json, yaml, csv, tsv, html.
• Who can access — the access rung: Restricted (only people you add), or one of the three anyone-with-the-link rungs (read / read + comment / read + comment + suggest). Default is read + comment.
• List publicly & allow search indexing — off by default, which keeps the share hidden: reachable only by its link and served noindex. On lists it on /discover and in the sitemap.
• Password — optional. Only valid on a hidden, link-reachable share. Visitors must enter the password before the share renders.
• Slug — optional. If set, the share lives at /<username>/<slug>. If empty, the server mints a random 8-character base36 id. Must match ^[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]{0,58}[a-z0-9])?$ — see slug rules.

Submit, and you land on a confirmation view with the canonical URL and a copy button.

The /dashboard page#

The dashboard lists every share you own, most-recently-updated first. Each row has the title, slug, last-updated timestamp, recent activity, access badge, a primary Copy URL button, and an Actions menu (⋯).

Actions menu#

Every row's ⋯ menu has the same items:

• Open in new tab — opens the share's public URL.
• View analytics — opens the analytics page for this share. Owner-only.
• Make public / Make unlisted / Make restricted — quick flips between the three reachability states, keeping the current rung. "Public" means listed + indexed; "unlisted" means hidden. Switching to public or restricted clears any password (the form asks for confirmation first). The full ladder — including the view / comment / suggest choice — lives on the share settings page.
• Share settings — the full per-share controls: general access, public listing, an Allow downloads of this file toggle (off removes the Download button, the PDF export, and the raw-file URL), a Render as picker, replace-with-a-file, slug, password, and theme.
• Set password / Change password — opens an inline form. Submit with the password field empty to clear an existing password. Only valid on a hidden, link-reachable share.
• Render as… — opens an inline dropdown of every render type. Picks a new one without touching the content. Useful for fixing paste-flow shares that got bucketed as markdown by default. Absent on file-backed rows (images, PDFs, other binaries): what those shares are is the file, so there's no render type to pick — use Replace with a file on the settings page instead.
• Rename — coming via CLI/API; the dashboard form for this lives on the row's edit page.
• Delete — soft-deletes the share. The URL returns 410 Gone immediately. Hard-deletion runs on a rolling 30-day cycle.

The share page's own ⋮ menu#

Every per-share action is also reachable from the document itself, without going back to a listing. Open the ⋮ in the share's header:

The top row keeps the things you reach for while reading: Edit or Suggest changes, Make a copy, Copy link, Invite, Download, and fullscreen.

The primary Copy URL button writes the share URL to the clipboard without opening the menu.

Tokens panel#

The dashboard has a CLI tokens panel below the shares table. Use it to create tokens for anchorify login (see CLI tokens).

Sign out#

The top-right menu has Sign out, which clears the session cookie and sends you back to the landing page. The CLI tokens are unaffected — sign-out is a browser-only action.

Fixing a share's render type after publish#

If you publish a share with the wrong content type (the most common case is pasting JSON into the textarea without a filename, which buckets the share as markdown), there are two places to fix it. Either works; the content stays the same and only the renderer changes.

• Share settings → Render as — open the share and choose Share settings, or go straight to /<org>/<project>/<slug>/settings. This is the one to use if you are not an admin of the owning org: project editors and anyone else who can edit the share can reach it.
• Dashboard or project row ⋯ → Render as… — the quick path when you are already looking at a list.

A share backed by an uploaded file — an image, a PDF, any other binary — has no render type to pick: what it is is the file. Use Replace with a file on the settings page to swap the bytes instead.

The same operation is available from the CLI as anchorify type <slug-or-id> <type> and via the API.

Next steps#

• Command-line — the same actions from the terminal.
• Access and passwords — the access model in detail.
• Content types and rendering — every renderer.
• Analytics — what you see on a share's analytics page.