Quick start

This walkthrough takes you from opening Papera for the first time to a draft you can render and, when you're ready, publish. It should take only a few minutes.

1. Open the dashboard

The dashboard is your home for projects. From the landing page choose Start free, or go straight to /dashboard. You'll see two areas:

• Your projects — everything you've created or imported.
• Ready-made — starter projects you can open or copy to edit.

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. Render an output

A content unit isn't tied to one format. On the project's flow canvas, attach a renderer to your content node to produce an output — for example a presentation or a social post. You can attach more than one; each renders from the same source.

4. Connect and publish

When you're ready to go live:

1. Connect an account in Settings → Social accounts (see the Guides section — Connect a Bluesky account).
2. On the canvas, add that account and link your post to it.
3. Add a publish trigger, wire it to the post, and fire it.

What's next

• Prefer driving Papera from your own AI client? See MCP Content Workflow in Guides.
• Want the conceptual overview first? Head back to Intro.

That's the whole loop: draft once, render per platform, publish everywhere.