Your profile is a central hub for showcasing who you are and what you’ve done. Keeping it accurate and up-to-date helps others understand your background, interests, and accomplishments at a glance. Here’s a quick guide on what you can update:
🔄 Refreshing Your Profile
Please note that making changes to a profile will show you a green bar at the top of the profile after changes have been made. Click it to refresh your profile and make sure your changes are reflected everywhere they appear (see What is the refresh button to learn more).
✅ What can you edit?
1. Sources are wrong; they are for another person or company
If there is an article or source that is not about the person or company, you can fix it by managing and updating the list of sources. Examples could include an article or social profile from someone else, or an article that is about someone else.
- 👉 Learn how in our guide: Managing Sources
2. There is missing information on a profile
You can always add a source to your profile. There are different ways to add them, but they can all be added by Managing Sources.
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For articles you've published, you can add them directly in the section by pressing the document icon.
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Work experience can be added by pressing the + in that section on your profile. To edit work experience, see 4 below.
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Investments can be added by pressing the + in on your profile.
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Education can be added by pressing the +
- Socials can be added (see 5 below)
3. My Bio description or Highlights
🔧 The Bio description summarizes the person/company, and Highlights are bulleted details about a person/company. If information needs to be changed, see Editing Bio Descriptions and Editing Highlights. You can specify:
- Adding details to a bio description
- What not to include
- What to emphasize
- Preferences on ordering or structuring the highlight or bio description
- Highlights to include
- Add more detail to existing highlights
- Clarifying a highlight
4. I want to edit my Work experience or investments
- You can modify your work experience or investments. For more detailed information, check out Work experience and investments.
5. I want to add/edit my social profiles
- You can add or remove socials from your profile. Check out how to edit socials on my profile.
6. Important details are missing from the profile (not social profiles)
If we missed a valuable source on a profile, like an article or social profile, you can add it manually to a profile. You can do this by going to the sources tab present on every profile and adding the URL of the source.
- Option 1: You can add the source directly; click on Add Source to insert the URL.
- Option 2: Alternatively, you can search for sources that search the web for the person or company on your behalf to be able to add quickly.
- 👉 Learn how in our guide: Managing Sources
- 👉 Learn how in our guide: Managing Sources
7. The profile is about a different person
In rare instances, we might have trouble finding the right person, and the profile you were expecting might all be about a different person. If a profile has been mistakenly attributed to the wrong person and has details on someone else, please reach out to us directly. This could happen where a profile was generated with someone with a similar name, but it is not the person you were expecting.
- 📧 Contact: support@distill.fyi. We’ll investigate and fix it as quickly as possible.