Docs Dashboard

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.
  • Visibility — Secret (default) makes the share unlisted and marked noindex. Public makes it indexable and listed on your public profile.
  • Password — optional. Only valid when visibility is Secret. 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, visibility 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 — toggles visibility between public and unlisted. Switching from password-protected to public clears the password (the form asks for confirmation first). To set a share to members visibility, use the CLI (anchorify visibility <slug> members) or the API — a three-tier dashboard control is not yet wired up.
  • Set password / Change password — opens an inline form. Submit with the password field empty to clear an existing password. Only valid on unlisted shares (passwords are mutually exclusive with public and members).
  • Render as… — opens an inline dropdown of the seven content types. Picks a new render type without touching the content. Useful for fixing paste-flow shares that got bucketed as markdown by default.
  • 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 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), open the dashboard, open the actions menu on the share's row, choose Render as…, pick the right type, and submit. The content stays the same; only the renderer changes.

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

Next steps