Quick start

This walkthrough takes you from opening Papera for the first time to an article published on your portal. It should take only a few minutes.

1. Open the dashboard

From the landing page choose Start free, or go straight to /dashboard. Every new account starts with a project, and the dashboard opens your most recent one. Its page starts with What's next, which offers a Blog page starter. The sidebar lists your projects and what each one holds.

2. Create your first content

Start a project and let Papera draft the first version:

1. Choose Create project and give it a topic.
2. Papera researches and proposes an outline for your approval.
3. Review the outline, then approve it to generate the content.

Nothing is published at this stage: you're only shaping the content unit.

3. Turn it into an article

A content unit isn't tied to one layout. On the project's flow canvas, press Create, choose Blog post, and connect it to your content node. The blog post renders from the content, so later edits to the content show up in the article too.

4. Publish to your portal

Open the blog post. Its toolbar holds the publish control, an icon whose tooltip reads Choose which versions of this article are public:

1. Click it and tick the version you want under Versions.
2. Press Publish.

The version's card now shows the article's public address. The address belongs to the project from the day you created it, and you can change it in the project's Settings → Address. To list your articles on a page readers can browse, turn on Portal in the project's settings. See Publish a blog article for the details.

What's next

• Want the conceptual overview first? Head back to Intro.

That's the whole loop: describe a topic, review the draft, publish it to your portal.