What can you do with Ydeora?

Every new document starts as a blank page with an editable title. You write directly in the editor: no configuration, no template to pick before you begin.

Example — A community manager planning their week creates one document per post, with a clear title like "Monday post — product launch."

Ydeora saves your text continuously. The status shown at the top of the document ("Saving…" then "Saved") confirms nothing is lost, even if you accidentally close the tab or lose your connection.

Example — You write an article across several sessions in a day: every time you come back, your text is exactly where you left it.

The "Copy" button at the top of the document puts the entire text on your clipboard — no need to select it all by hand.

Example — A writer finishes a piece in Ydeora, then pastes it directly into her client's publishing platform.

From a document, the "Share" button generates a public link. You choose who can access it (private, or anyone with the link) and what's allowed (read-only, or read and duplicate). The link can be disabled at any time: once disabled, it no longer gives access to the content.

Example — A creator writes "5 prompts for learning with ChatGPT" in Ydeora, then shares the link in a story instead of pasting the raw text into their post.

When a document is shared as "read and duplicate", anyone viewing it can click "Duplicate this document" to get an independent copy in their own Ydeora account. Signing in (or creating an account) is required for this step; the copy then opens directly in the editor, ready to edit.

Example — A visitor discovers a shared checklist, clicks "Duplicate", signs in with Google, and immediately gets her own editable copy.

On a read-only shared document, regular copy-paste (Ctrl+C, right-click menu) is blocked from the interface, with a clear message for anyone who tries. This isn't absolute protection — content shown in a browser remains technically retrievable by someone determined enough — but it prevents accidental or immediate copying of text you don't want reused as-is.

The sidebar lists all your documents by title. Click one to open it, or create a new one in a click. It collapses to save space on a large screen, and becomes an accessible drawer on mobile.

Example — A freelancer juggles several ongoing proposals: she switches between them from the sidebar without ever losing her progress.

Every Ydeora account includes 15 documents. A progress bar in the sidebar always shows where you stand. Once you hit the limit, referrals let you unlock extra space (see "Your Ydeora account").

The "Block style" menu at the start of the toolbar turns the paragraph your cursor is in into Heading 1, 2 or 3 — or back to normal text.

Example — Structuring a blog post with a main heading and subheadings.

Select text, then click Bold to make it stand out. Clicking again removes the formatting.

Example — Emphasizing the main keyword in a post or a business proposal.

Works just like bold: select, click, and the text turns italic.

Same principle as bold and italic, and can be combined with both.

Select text, open the Color menu and pick a shade. "Default" removes the applied color.

Example — Visually setting a client quote apart in a project report.

Select text, open the Highlight menu and pick a background color. "None" removes the highlight.

Example — Flagging points that need approval before sending a text to a client.

The List menu offers three formats: bulleted, numbered, or a task list (see the "Task lists" category).

Example — Listing the deliverables of a service in a business proposal.

Turns the current paragraph into a quote block, with a style visually distinct from regular text.

Choose the alignment from the toolbar's dedicated menu.

Select text, click Link, and enter the URL. The button also lets you edit or remove an existing link.

Example — Linking to a portfolio or a contact page from a bio.

The </> icon next to the title (in the document header, separate from the formatting toolbar) reveals your document's exact HTML code, editable directly in a text field. The "Back to editor" button reapplies your changes to the visual editor — as long as they stay compatible with what Ydeora can represent — and "Cancel" closes the view without changing anything. A "Clean up" button is also available directly in this view.

Example — An advanced user checks the exact structure of text pasted from a website before publishing it elsewhere.

The eraser-shaped icon in the document header (not to be confused with the ✨ "Text style" icon in the formatting toolbar just below) strips out unnecessary styles, classes and tags left over from an external copy-paste — fonts and colors imposed by the source site, invisible tags, tracking attributes — while keeping the useful formatting you actually chose (headings, bold, lists, text colors...). Available directly in the editor, or from the HTML view to check the result before applying it.

Example — Text generated by ChatGPT, pasted with unnecessary formatting, becomes clean again in one click before being published.

The Emoji button in the toolbar opens a full picker: search in French and English, categories, recent emojis, favorites, and skin-tone variants. A click inserts the emoji right where your cursor is, without moving anything. To go faster, type ":" followed by a word directly in the text (":heart", ":laugh"...): a list of suggestions appears, navigable with the keyboard, and Enter inserts the emoji in place of the typed text.

Example — A community manager types "New course available :fire", presses Enter, and gets "New course available 🔥" right away — without ever leaving the keyboard.

At the very start of an empty line, type "/": a menu appears with the available blocks (Heading 1/2/3, bulleted list, numbered list, checklist, quote, normal text, emoji). Keep typing to filter ("/heading", "/list", "/checklist"...) and confirm with Enter — the command text is replaced by the chosen transformation.

Example — To turn a line into a heading without touching the mouse, just type "/heading" then Enter.

From the List menu, choose "Task list": each line becomes a checkbox. Ideal for turning a note into an action plan.

Example — An entrepreneur turns a client's brief into an actionable checklist, right in the working document.

As soon as a task list has at least one item, Ydeora shows "X/Y tasks completed" at the bottom of the page, updated every time a box is checked.

The Statistics page (available from the account menu) shows your documents created and edited, tasks created and completed, active days and current streak — over a period of your choice (7 days, 30 days, 365 days, or all time). Only real activity counts: opening a page, or an autosave with no actual change, never affects these numbers.

Example — A freelance writer checks her writing streak every Monday morning to keep the pace on her ongoing projects.

Select text, open "Text style" and choose from 6 styles (bold and italic, in classic or sans-serif versions, plus strikethrough): a real preview of each style shows before you pick. Unlike regular bold and italic, these aren't visual styles specific to Ydeora — they're real Unicode characters. So the result keeps its look once copy-pasted into Facebook, LinkedIn, X, or any other text field that normally ignores formatting. The same menu offers "Normal text" at the bottom of the list: it reverts a styled selection back to its original text, even if several styles were applied one after another.

Example — A community manager wants a punchy headline on LinkedIn: he selects his title, picks "Bold (sans-serif)", then pastes the result straight into his post — the style stays visible even though LinkedIn has no native bold. If he changes his mind, "Normal text" restores the original text.

The "Special characters" tool opens a small panel organized into three categories — accents, arrows, useful symbols. Place your cursor where you want it, open the panel, click the character you need: it's inserted exactly there, as if you'd typed it on your keyboard.

Example — A content creator adds an arrow to a post to point somewhere else ("Link in bio →"), without hunting for how to type the character.

The "My account" page brings together your first name, last name, email and password, without ever leaving Ydeora.

From "My account", turn the weekly digest and the news emails on or off independently of each other. Emails related to account security (sign-up confirmation, password reset) are always sent, regardless of these settings.

Every account has a unique referral link, available in "My account". As soon as 3 people you've invited create an account and write a first document, you unlock 15 more documents — a simple way to grow your workspace.

Example — An entrepreneur who's hit her 15-document limit shares her link with her network; once 3 referrals are active, she unlocks 15 more documents.

On the sign-up and sign-in pages, the "Continue with Google" button creates a Ydeora account from your Google account, with no password to choose. If an account already exists with the same email address, it's automatically linked to your Google account — your documents, tasks and statistics stay intact.

Example — A new user in a hurry signs up in one click with their Google account instead of filling out the regular form.