Getting started

The author dashboard lives at author.valeon.blog. You sign in with the same email address an editor used when they invited you. If you haven’t been invited yet, see How to contribute.

Once you’re signed in, the dashboard remembers you on that browser. There’s no separate password to manage — sign-in happens through your email provider.

The first time you sign in after being invited, you’ll be asked to confirm your display name and a short bio before you reach the dashboard itself. You can change both later from your profile.

The dashboard home is your work queue — a single page that shows you what to look at next. It collects the posts you already care about into a few groups:

• Changes requested — drafts you submitted that an editor wants you to revise.
• Waiting on a reviewer — your submissions that haven’t been picked up yet.
• Your drafts— posts you’re still writing.
• Awaiting review (editors) — submissions in your queue to review.
• Pipelines in progress — posts whose render or audio jobs are still running.

If the page is empty, you’re caught up. Click any item to jump straight to the relevant editor.

The dashboard’s left sidebar groups everything you can reach into a few sections:

• Workspace — your posts, the media library, and messages.
• Taxonomy (for editors) — series, categories, and tags.
• Admin (for admins) — authors, applications, subscribers, and audit logs.
• Settings — your account, API keys, email preferences, and exports.

The top of the sidebar always shows your name and role. The bottom holds a theme toggle and a sign-out button.

What you see in the sidebar depends on your role. Most contributors are authors — you can write and edit your own posts, request audio synthesis, and submit drafts for review. Some authors also have direct-publish permission, which lets them publish without waiting for an editor to approve.

See Roles & permissions for a full breakdown of what each role can do.

• The post editor — how to write a post.
• The publishing flow — how a draft becomes a live post.
• Using the Obsidian plugin — write in Obsidian, sync to the dashboard.