Back up and restore your workspace across devices
Open Settings, hit Back up to Cloud, and your editor tabs follow you to any other signed-in browser. Here's what's backed up, what stays local, and how quota works.
What Cloud Backup includes
Cloud Backup is an opt-in, manual feature for signed-in users. There is no auto-save — each back up is a snapshot you choose to take. When you back up, Yellorn saves your open editor tabs to your account in Cloudflare KV:
- Open tabs — editor text, active format (JSON, YAML, CSV, …), tab name, and pinned / format-locked state.
What is not backed up: diff tabs, colour palette, pane split, visualizer view mode (tree / graph / table), cursor position, and other local UI preferences. Those stay on the device. Tabs larger than your per-tab size quota are skipped during back up (see Quota below).
How to back up and restore
Back up
- Sign in, then open Settings — from the Account panel in the editor's rail, or by visiting /settings directly.
- In the Cloud Backup section, click Back up to Cloud. Yellorn uploads your current tabs immediately and a toast confirms how many tabs were backed up (and how many, if any, were skipped).
Restore
- Open Yellorn on a different browser or device.
- Sign in with the same account.
- Open Settings and click Restore from Cloud. Yellorn replaces your current tabs with the backed-up snapshot, so review any local-only tabs you haven't backed up first — they will be overwritten. Palette, pane layout, and other local UI preferences are unchanged.
Quota
A usage bar in the Settings Cloud Backup section shows how many tabs and how much of your byte quota you've used. Quota scales with your plan. If a tab is larger than the per-tab limit it is skipped during back up and the confirmation toast reports the count (for example, “Backed up 4 tab(s), 1 skipped (size/quota)”). To free up room, close tabs you no longer need before backing up.
Privacy
Cloud Backup tab bodies are stored as expiring Cloudflare KV records; a private D1 catalog stores only the tab name, format, size, and version needed to list and enforce your quota. Both are scoped to your account. See the Privacy Policy for full details on how workspace data is handled.
Frequently asked questions
How do I move my Yellorn tabs to another computer?
Sign in, open Settings, and click Back up to Cloud to snapshot your open editor tabs to your account. On the other computer, sign in with the same account, open Settings, and click Restore from Cloud to load the snapshot.
Does Yellorn automatically sync my tabs?
No. Cloud Backup is manual and opt-in by design — there is no auto-save. Each back up is a snapshot you choose to take, and restoring is a deliberate action, so a background sync can never overwrite work you didn't mean to replace.
What exactly gets backed up?
Cloud Backup stores each open editor tab's text, active format, name, and pinned/format-locked state. Diff tabs, colour palette, editor/visualizer pane split, visualizer view mode, cursor position, and other local UI preferences stay on the device.
Will restoring overwrite my current tabs?
Yes. Restore from Cloud replaces your current tabs with the backed-up snapshot, so review any local-only tabs you haven't backed up first — they will be overwritten. Palette, pane layout, and other local UI preferences are not changed.
Is my backed-up data private?
Yes. Tab bodies are stored as expiring Cloudflare KV records, while a private D1 catalog holds only the tab metadata needed to list and enforce your quota. Both are scoped to your account. See the Privacy Policy for full details.
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