Where your work is kept
The browser holds the copy you work on, and your account keeps it on every device. What is stored where, what is sent, and when to back up.
Rejarsume works on a copy of your resumes in your own browser, on the device you are using. That is why the page redraws as you type, and why the editor works with no network. Your account is where that copy is kept: once you sign in, every change is saved to it, and every device you sign in on has the same resumes.
You can start without an account. Until you sign in, your work is in this browser only.
What is stored, and where
- In this browser, your resumes, groups, images and fonts are stored in IndexedDB, a database that belongs to this site in this browser.
- In your account, the same resumes, groups, images and fonts are stored on Rejarsume's server, against your account and nobody else's.
- A few preferences are stored in the browser's local storage only: the interface language, the colour theme, whether the sidebar is collapsed, and which tours you have seen.
Signing in is handled by Firebase Authentication, a Google service, which keeps your email address or phone number, and your name and picture when you sign in with Google. See Privacy.
What leaves your device
As a guest, nothing you write. Loading Rejarsume is an ordinary request for the app's files, as with any website, and the server that answers sees what any web server sees, such as your network address.
Signed in, your resumes, groups, images and fonts are sent to your account, over an encrypted connection, so that your other devices can have them. Nothing else is: checking a resume, laying out the page, making a PDF and every other export happen in your browser.
The documentation works the same way for everyone. Search runs in your browser against an index it downloads once. Ask an assistant on a docs page opens another site only when you choose it, and sends only the address of that public page.
As a guest
Until you sign in, the only copy is in this browser
Clearing your browser's site data deletes a guest's resumes, and so does losing the device. Nobody can recover them for you, because nobody else has them.
The editor says so beside its save indicator: Save offers to keep the resume in an account, and its tooltip says it is in this browser only. See Accounts and sync.
Back up
A backup is a copy of your own, in one file you keep. With an account it is a second copy, and without one it is the only thing that survives a cleared browser. In Settings, Backup and restore has Download backup, which writes every resume, group, image and font in this browser to one JSON file.
Restore adds a backup's contents to this browser and never replaces or
deletes what is already there. A resume that collides with one you already have
is restored beside it, with (restored) added to its name, and an image already
stored is not stored twice.
To move one resume rather than everything, use Export as zip on its card, or Bundle (.zip) in the editor's Export menu, and import the file from the New resume dialog. With an account there is usually no need: sign in on the other device instead.
Working offline
Rejarsume can be installed like an app, and once it has cached itself it opens with no network at all. Changes made offline go to your account when you reconnect. Settings says whether the app is cached on your device, under Install on this device.