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title: "Editing & Control"
description: "Fine-tune output, keep manual edits, control how often pages refresh."
section: "Use the dashboard"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/docs/editing"
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# Editing & Control

Fine-tune output, keep manual edits, control how often pages refresh.

Geordy auto-generates structured formats for every URL you add. But auto-generated doesn't mean locked-in. You have full control over the output before it goes live.

## What you can do with each format

- View - preview generated output in syntax or rendered mode
- Edit - modify any part of structured output (Markdown, JSON, YAML)
- Save - persist manual changes as the live version
- Regenerate - re-scan source page and rebuild format from scratch

## Stop a page overwriting your edits

Refresh cadence is set per page, not per format, in Pages. Open the Frequency column on the page's row and choose Daily, Weekly, Monthly or Off. Off means Geordy stops re-scanning that page, so a format you edited by hand stays exactly as you saved it until you regenerate it yourself.

> There is no per-format pause switch. Off applies to the whole page, so every format on it holds: if you want one format frozen and the others refreshing, regenerate the others by hand after each change.

Worth setting to Off when:

- You've manually edited a format on that page
- You're testing a specific version
- The source page is broken or being redesigned
- During a product launch where copy must stay locked

## A format you have not enabled costs nothing

One file is one format generated for one page. A format you have not turned on is never generated for that page, so it never costs a file. This is the cheapest lever you have, and it is why enabling only the formats you will actually deploy matters more than scan frequency on most sites.

## Typical editing workflow

1. Generate formats for a URL
2. Review each format
3. Edit if needed
4. Save, then set the page's Frequency to Off if the edit has to hold

> Everything you edit here only affects the structured layer served from your Geordy subdomain. Your actual website remains completely unchanged.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/docs/editing
This is a machine-readable markdown version of that page, generated by Geordy.