This page explains how the guides and tool descriptions on Toolestro are written, checked, updated and corrected. It is here for transparency, so you can judge how much to trust what you read.
Our purpose
Content on this website exists to help people complete a task or understand how something works. Every article should answer the questions a reader actually has — how to do something, why a result looks the way it does, and what can go wrong — and should connect to a tool that lets the reader put the method into practice. We do not publish pages whose only purpose is to attract search traffic or display advertising.
How articles are written
- Written for readers first. We explain things in plain language, define terms when they first appear, and use examples, tables and formulas where they make an idea clearer.
- Grounded in method, not opinion. Where a topic involves calculations, we show the formula and a worked example, and we explain assumptions (such as the reading speed used for a reading-time estimate).
- Honest about limitations. If a question has more than one reasonable answer — such as how to count "months" between two dates — we say so and explain the difference.
- No keyword stuffing. We do not repeat phrases unnaturally or create near-duplicate pages for small variations of a search term.
How content is reviewed for accuracy
Before an article is published, we check it against the relevant tool and against the underlying method:
- Worked examples and figures in tables are recalculated, usually by running them through the site's own tools and independently.
- Claims about how external services behave (such as common character limits) are described as typical or approximate where they vary or may change, and readers are pointed to the official source.
- We avoid presenting estimates or ranges as precise facts, and we do not publish statistics we cannot support.
Tools must match their descriptions
Each tool page describes exactly what the tool does, how it does it, and where its limits are. When a tool is changed — for example, to handle a new edge case — its description is updated at the same time. If a description and a tool ever disagree, we treat that as an error and fix it.
Updates
Information changes: platforms change their limits, browsers add new features, and better explanations become available. We review articles periodically and update them when something has changed. Every article shows its original publication date and, when it has been meaningfully revised, the date it was last updated. We do not change dates without making real changes to the content.
Corrections
We welcome corrections. If you believe an article or tool contains an error, please tell us through the contact page. We review every report. When an error is confirmed, we correct it promptly and, where a correction changes the meaning of an article, we note the change in the article.
What we will not publish
- Misleading or clickbait headlines that promise something the article does not deliver.
- Fake reviews, testimonials, ratings or endorsements.
- Fabricated expertise, credentials, awards, partnerships or user numbers.
- Invented statistics or quotes.
- Content that disguises advertising as editorial content.
Authorship
Articles are published under the author profile shown on each article. Author profiles describe the author honestly and do not claim qualifications or experience that the author does not have. Some articles are published under the site's editorial profile, which represents the people who run Toolestro.
Advertising and independence
If the site displays advertising, advertisers have no influence over what we write, which tools we build, or how we describe them. Advertisements will always be clearly labelled and kept separate from tool controls and editorial content.
Use of automated assistance
We may use software tools, including spelling and grammar checkers and AI writing assistants, to help draft or edit content. Regardless of how a draft is produced, every published article is reviewed against this policy — including checking examples and calculations — and the site takes responsibility for its accuracy.