Content editor reference
Edit and save a Copywriter draft, use Topics and Serena, review research, manage versions, share, export, or publish.
The Copywriter output view is the working area for a completed draft or a historical YouTube Script project. New YouTube Script projects can no longer be created, but existing projects remain available for editing and export. Use the output view to edit the artifact, compare it with the research and brief, monitor optimization guidance, save recoverable versions, and hand the result to a reviewer or publishing destination.
Open a Copywriter project after its draft is ready. Demo-client content is view-only.
Output views
The tabs at the top depend on the project:
Draft or Script contains the editable artifact.
Brief shows the generated content brief. Manual and Optimize-existing-content projects do not show this tab when no separate brief belongs to the workflow.
Competitors or Sources shows the search, AI, or video material returned during research. Provider-unavailable states mean that source was not collected; they are not evidence that no competitor or result exists.
Tabs and export choices are conditional. Rankability does not create or display an artifact the project did not produce.
Edit and save safely
The editor supports headings, links, lists, formatting, and the review/research controls shown in its toolbar. Content auto-saves about two seconds after an edit. The header reports Saving, Saved, or Save failed; select a failed status to retry. You can also select Save or press Ctrl+S.
Periodic version checkpoints are created every 15 minutes and retained for 30 days. Before importing content, accepting a large rewrite, or regenerating a draft, open More actions > Version history and select Save current version. Restoring a version replaces the current editor content, so save the current state first if you may need it.
Rankability also keeps a local recovery copy for unsaved editor work, but a visible Saved state or manual version is the reliable handoff point before closing the page.
Use the editor sidebar
For article projects, the right sidebar contains:
Topics, including the content score, target range, keyword coverage, placement guidance, topic search, custom topics, and keyword export.
Serena, which can answer questions about the current project and apply a proposed rewrite to the editor. Review the changed passage and use the available restore control when the result is not suitable.
Historical YouTube Script projects continue to use Create, Optimize, and Serena. Optimize includes script-specific description, tags, chapters, and duration information when generated.
On smaller screens, open Serena from the floating action button. Switching sidebar tabs does not intentionally discard the current Serena editor conversation.
The score and topic guidance are editorial signals, not a ranking guarantee. Add missing subjects naturally, verify whether a recommendation fits the audience, and do not force repeated terms merely to raise a score. See Understanding your content score.
Use AI editing actions
Select text, then open the AI actions in the editor toolbar. Supported actions include Rewrite for clarity and Improve quality. Rankability keeps these actions in the toolbar in both current and existing full-platform experiences; historical screenshots can show an older contextual menu.
After Serena applies a document-level edit, review the automatic Before and After comparison. Only changed blocks are emphasized. Use restore or undo when the new version removes required context, changes the intended meaning, or introduces an unsupported claim.
Header actions
Publish sends the saved article to a connected WordPress or Webflow CMS, or opens a GitHub pull request. Use Manage destinations or Connect a destination when the required destination is not ready.
Download offers Google Docs, HTML, Markdown, Microsoft Word, brief Markdown, and—on historical YouTube Script projects—the YouTube package when supported by the plan and artifact.
SEO edits title-tag, meta-description, and related metadata for supported article projects.
Mark as done records the project's completion state; it does not publish the content.
Share creates a revocable content link. View only recipients can read and copy; Can edit recipients can save changes back to the project.
More actions opens Version history, Publishing history, and Import from URL.
CMS delivery is separate from the editor's saved state. Confirm the destination, post status, title, slug, connection, and final rendered page. Use Exporting and publishing content for the destination workflow.
Add an approved image
Use the editor's image control to open Insert an approved image. Choose a saved client asset, or use Add assets to upload and approve one first. Rankability inserts the saved alt text when available and otherwise uses the filename as a fallback, so review the alt text before publishing.
You can also drag image files from your computer onto the editor. Each dropped image is inserted where you released it and is saved to the client's asset library, and its alt text comes from the saved value or the file name, so review the alt text here too. Non-image files are skipped, as is any image larger than 10MB. Enable editing before you drop: a read-only draft does not accept dropped images.
Images remain user-selected, including for Autopilot drafts. Rankability does not silently choose a featured image on a new Autopilot run.
Update the brief from the draft
When an article project has both a draft and a brief, use Update from draft in the Brief view to synchronize the brief with the document's current H1 and outline. The update is deterministic and consumes no outcome allowance or credits: it does not ask AI to reinterpret or regenerate the brief.
Rankability preserves talking points for headings that have not changed. Review headings that were added, removed, renamed, or reordered. The update does not change the title tag, meta description, or slug.
Review before handoff
Confirm the header save status is Saved.
Verify factual claims against cited or primary sources; a collected competitor page is research context, not automatic proof.
Check links, headings, calls to action, brand voice, restricted language, and SEO metadata.
Review warnings or inline suggested changes individually.
Save a named version before a major import, rewrite, or CMS handoff.
Preview the final destination after export or publication because CMS themes can change spacing, embeds, tables, and media.
If generation produced a partial draft, Rankability lets you keep the saved partial content or retry. If an editor section fails to load, retry the section or reopen the project; do not regenerate solely to fix a temporary display error.
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