Quickstart
From nothing to a published post in five steps. Budget about ten minutes.
Before you start: Tovu is at MVP. It runs on your own machine — there is no signup and no hosted plan. Everything below happens locally, and everything you create stays in a folder you control.
Create a site
A Tovu site is a directory. This command makes one and fills it with a working database, a starter theme, and some example content:
You now have a complete site on disk. Nothing has been uploaded anywhere.
Start it
From inside the folder you just created:
Tovu prints two addresses — one for your public site, one for the admin. Open the admin one.
Write something
Go to Posts and click New. You get a normal rich-text editor — headings, lists, links, images, code blocks. Give it a title and write a few paragraphs.
Your work saves as a draft as you go. A draft is a row in the database on your disk; it has not left your machine.
Publish it
Switch the status from Draft to Published and save. Reload your public site — the post is there, rendered by whichever theme is active.
Publishing in Tovu means "visible on the site this Tovu is serving." It does not push anything to the internet.
Make it yours
Two things to try next. In Themes, switch to a different theme and watch the same content re-render — content and presentation are genuinely separate here.
Then open the assistant and ask it to do something: "write me an About page" or "make the headings on the homepage bigger." It works through a reviewed catalog of tools, so it can only take actions Tovu deliberately allows.
Where to next
The concepts behind what you just did, and how to reshape it.