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Creating a Project

Each documentation site in Docsio is a project. This page covers the full project creation flow in detail -- from entering your URL to reviewing the generated documentation.

Starting a New Project​

From your dashboard, click New Project (or navigate to the new project page after signing up). You will see a centered input field prompting you to enter your website URL.

Enter Your Website URL​

Type or paste your website's URL into the input field. The URL must begin with http:// or https:// -- for example, https://yourcompany.com.

Add Additional URLs (Optional)​

Below the main URL input, you can click "+ Add another URL" to include more pages for Docsio to scan. This is useful when your product has content spread across multiple locations:

  • A separate documentation subdomain (e.g., docs.yoursite.com)
  • An API reference page (e.g., yoursite.com/api)
  • A features page, pricing page, or changelog
  • Any subpage with content relevant to your documentation

There is no strict limit on additional URLs, though they should be pages within your own site. The more relevant content you provide, the richer and more accurate your generated docs will be.

Click Scan when you are ready.

What Docsio Extracts​

After you click Scan, Docsio runs through two phases:

Phase 1: Scanning​

Docsio crawls the URLs you provided and extracts:

  • Text content from each page
  • Brand assets -- your logo, primary colors, and fonts
  • Site structure -- navigation patterns, page hierarchy, and content organization

Phase 2: Analysis​

The extracted content is sent through an AI analysis step that identifies:

  • Product name and tagline
  • Product description -- a summary of what your product does
  • Features -- the main capabilities of your product, with names and descriptions
  • Core concepts -- key abstractions or ideas users need to understand (if applicable)
  • Getting started steps -- the typical onboarding flow for your product
  • FAQ -- common questions and answers found on your site
  • Integrations -- third-party tools or platforms your product works with
  • Content type detection -- whether your product has an API, existing docs, and what audience it targets (developers, end users, etc.)

Reviewing Extracted Information​

Once analysis completes, you enter the Review phase. Everything Docsio found is presented in collapsible panels that you can expand and edit:

  • Brand & Identity -- Product name, tagline, description, logo URL, and primary color. Adjust anything that does not look right.
  • Features -- A list of features with names and descriptions. Add, remove, or rewrite entries as needed.
  • Core Concepts -- Key ideas or abstractions (shown only if detected).
  • Guides -- How-to guides with titles and summaries (shown only if detected).
  • Getting Started -- Steps for new users to follow.
  • FAQ -- Question and answer pairs (shown only if detected).
  • Integrations -- Third-party integrations (shown only if detected).
  • Documentation Sections -- The final list of doc pages to generate, each with a toggle to include or exclude it.

Choosing Documentation Sections​

The Documentation Sections panel is where you decide exactly what pages get generated. Docsio selects a default set based on what it found on your site:

Always included by default:

  • Quick Start
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Features

Conditionally included (enabled automatically when relevant content is detected):

  • Core Concepts -- when your product has moderate or complex concepts
  • Guides -- when how-to content or use cases are found
  • API Overview, Authentication, Endpoints -- when an API is detected
  • Integrations -- when third-party integrations are found
  • Examples -- when your product targets developers
  • FAQ -- when FAQ content is found on your site

You can toggle any section on or off before generating. The section count is shown so you know exactly how many pages will be created.

Generating Documentation​

Click Generate Docs to start the generation process. Docsio creates each page in parallel batches, and you will see:

  • A progress bar tracking overall completion
  • Individual status indicators for each section (pending, generating, complete, or error)

Generation typically takes under a minute. Once all sections are complete, you are automatically redirected to the editor where you can review and refine the generated content.

Plan Limits​

  • Free plan: 1 project
  • Pro plan: Up to 3 projects
Already have a project on the free plan?

If you are on the free plan and already have an active project, you will need to either upgrade to Pro to create additional projects, or delete your existing project first. You can manage your projects from the dashboard.