Managing Documents

Everything you can do to a document once it exists.

Create

Documents are always created inside a folder. Create one from the sidebar, or from the folder's own menu.

New accounts start with a My Documents folder and a Readme.md introduction.

Rename

Rename inline from the sidebar, or edit the title directly in the editor header.

If the name already exists in the target folder, MDflow appends (2), (3) and so on. It never overwrites a document because of a name collision.

Move

Move a document to another folder. Internal links pointing at it keep working — they reference the document's identity, not its location. See 03 Linking Documents Together.

Duplicate

Duplicating copies the document and its referenced uploaded images, so the copy is self-contained rather than sharing image files with the original. Editing or deleting one does not affect the other. See 04 Images.

Favorite

Star a document and it appears in a dedicated Favorites section in the sidebar, regardless of how deeply it is filed.

Delete

Deletion requires a confirmation and is permanent — there is no trash, no soft delete, and no restore. Uploaded images referenced only by that document are cleaned up too.

If you are on Pro, version history does not survive deletion. History is per document; delete the document and its history goes with it. See 06 Version History.

Download as markdown

Download any document as a .md file. It is the unmodified markdown source — no wrapper, no export format, no conversion.

Export as PDF

Export a rendered document through a print-ready PDF flow. This uses your browser's print dialog, so you get its usual controls over page size and margins.

Readers of a shared document can do both of these too — download the .md and export a PDF — without an account.

Ordering

Folders and documents are listed in alphabetical order, always. There is no manual sort or drag-to-reorder.

This is worth planning around. If a set of documents has a natural reading order, encode it in the titles — 01 Introduction, 02 Setup, 03 Advanced — which is exactly what this documentation does.

Limits

	Free	Pro
Documents	100	10,000
Uploaded images	5	10,000
Size per document	500 KiB	500 KiB

The 500 KiB limit is per document body, measured as UTF-8, and applies everywhere — the editor, the API, the MCP server, and markdown import. See 02 Limits and Quotas.

For context, 500 KiB of markdown is roughly 500,000 characters, or several hundred pages of prose. If you are hitting it, you are probably storing something that is not really a document.