What's in the PostSnag dashboard? (Overview)

The PostSnag dashboard at app.postsnag.com is where every post you capture on Facebook ends up, and it's built around one job: turning what you scroll into something you can search, sort, and export. Sign in and you'll find a left-hand navigation for Profiles, Discovery, Bookmarks, Groups, Analytics, and Folders, a Recent profiles shortcut list, an account menu, and a Settings page covering your account, notifications, usage, and plan.

This article is a tour of what's where. Most sections below have their own dedicated article; this one shows what each piece does and how a brand-new account gets guided through its first capture.

[Screenshot: The PostSnag dashboard with the left navigation and a profile grid visible]

The top bar

Three things sit across the top of every dashboard page:

• The PostSnag logo, top left. It's not a link or a button; clicking it doesn't take you anywhere, so use the left navigation to move around instead.

• A notifications bell, with a small dot when you have unread items. Opening it shows a "Notifications" panel with a "Mark all as read" option once you have something unread, and it covers five kinds of activity: new posts from profiles you track, group activity, bookmark milestones, digest updates, and system notices. With nothing new, it just says "You're all caught up."

• Your account menu, shown as your avatar, name, and email. Click it to open a dropdown with two options: Settings and Sign out.

The left navigation

• Profiles: every profile, Page, and creator you've captured, with a live post count badge next to it. This is your library. See How do I find and manage captured profiles in the Profiles library?

• Discovery: a shared feed of standout posts pulled from every profile the whole PostSnag community tracks, not only your own captures. See What is the Discovery feed?

• Bookmarks: individual posts and profiles you've saved with the bookmark icon, split into Posts, Profiles, and By group tabs. See How do I use Bookmarks to save posts and profiles?.

• Groups: Facebook Groups added automatically the first time you export from inside one, with a live group count badge. There's no manual "create group" button; PostSnag registers the group for you.

• Analytics: the account-wide numbers across everything you've captured: engagement totals, top posts, top profiles, and posting patterns. This is different from a single profile's own stats, which live on that profile's own page.

• Folders: named collections you build to group captured posts, capped at 10 per account. The Folders label has an inline "+" for creating one without leaving the page (it switches to "Limit reached" once you're at 10), and All folders underneath opens the full Folders page with a live folder count badge. One thing worth knowing before you make ten of them: there's currently no way to delete a folder once you've created it, so name each one with that in mind. See How do I organize captured posts into Folders?.

• Recent profiles: a short list, up to six, of profiles you've opened lately, sitting below the main navigation. Each row has its own remove (hides it from this list only) and delete (removes the profile and its posts for good) icons. See Recent profiles: what's the difference between remove and delete?

The sidebar footer

Below the navigation sit a light/dark theme toggle and a card promoting the Chrome extension, "Capture posts while you scroll," with an Add to Chrome button. It's there in case you're browsing the dashboard on a device or browser where you haven't installed the extension yet.

Settings

Open Settings from the account menu. It's organized into four sections:

• Account: Name, Email, Current password, and New password fields, with a Save changes button that confirms with "Saved!" or shows an error if something's off.

• Notifications: five toggles, one line each, for what you'd like to hear about: New posts from tracked profiles, Group activity, Bookmark milestones, Weekly digest, and Product news. Treat these as preferences you're setting rather than a guarantee of exactly when an email lands.

• Usage: on the Free plan, a live "Weekly profile scans" meter: a segmented bar showing how many of your weekly scans are left, a line noting up to 30 posts saved per scanned profile, and the date your limit resets. On Pro or Lifetime, this becomes a checkmark next to Profile scans, a note that your plan lets you export as much as you like, and an Unlimited pill.

• Plans & pricing: three cards matching the public pricing page. Free ($0) covers the Chrome extension, live capture, 3 profile scans a week with up to 30 posts saved per profile, and the dashboard. Pro ($19/month) and Lifetime ($139 one time) remove those weekly caps, save every scan for good, and Lifetime adds a one-time payment locked at today's rate plus priority email support. Whichever plan you're on shows as your current plan; picking another redirects you to checkout. See What do PostSnag's plans include, and what are the limits? for the full comparison.

Getting started: how a new account is guided

An account with nothing captured yet gets a few nudges toward its first capture:

• The Getting started panel, shown on the Profiles page in place of the grid until you've captured at least one profile. Its heading: "Let's snag your first profile." It lays out three numbered steps: add the Chrome extension and pin it to your toolbar, open any profile or group and scroll their posts on Facebook, then come back to see your captured posts land in the library.

• The activation checklist, a floating widget tracking four steps: add the Chrome extension, capture your first profile, explore the Discovery feed, and save posts to a folder. It shows "<n> of 4 done" with a progress bar, and collapses to a small pill once you're partway through.

• The guided tour, a short spotlight walkthrough that starts automatically right after signup (you can skip it, and relaunch it later from the checklist's "Take a tour of the dashboard" button). It covers six stops in order: a welcome card, the Profiles library, Discovery, Analytics, the Chrome extension promo card in the sidebar, and a closing card that plays a short "how it works" clip. Escape closes it early, and the arrow keys step forward and back.

• See sample data, reachable from the Getting started panel or a profile's own page, loads a set of demo profiles and posts so Profiles and Analytics show real-looking content right away. Bookmarks and Folders reflect whatever the demo set has saved, and Discovery looks the same either way since it's a shared feed shown to every account regardless of sample data. See How do I try the dashboard with sample data?

Common questions

Do I need to capture something before the dashboard is useful?
No. Sample data lets you explore Profiles and Analytics with demo content before you capture anything, and Discovery already shows real posts to every account regardless.

Where do I change my password or notification preferences?
Both live in Settings: password under Account, preferences under Notifications.

Can I skip the guided tour?
Yes. It offers a skip option during the walkthrough, and you can relaunch it anytime from the activation checklist's "Take a tour of the dashboard" button.

What's the difference between the Profiles nav item and Recent profiles?
Profiles is your full library of everything you've captured. Recent profiles is a short list, up to six, of the profiles you've opened most recently, meant as a shortcut back to them.

Why doesn't clicking the PostSnag logo take me back to the dashboard home?
It's not wired as a link. Use Profiles in the left navigation to get back to your library instead.