Might I suggest a slide-out panel with common Markdown/etc. symbols? My experience was
1) Click the link in the article, intro page didn't load (during the brief watcher script error)
2) Navigate directly to Notepag.es, get a blank doc
3) ... Crap, I don't remember any Markdown aside from italics, the app is pointless without that knowledge.
Naturally, I could open up separate tabs with that info, but keeping it self-contained helps the lazy users. If not a more fleshed-out guide, at least putting relevant links on the page would be nice -- going back to the intro page for that info is not intuitive.
Seeing a little bit of Markdown in action when editing the Introduction page is nice. You could stand to draw more attention to that -- my first thought when presented with a blank screen is "Well what do I do now?" whereas a page that has some pointers/suggestions/samples gets me engaged and helps me see the added value.
Thanks for the suggestion! I just added a cheatsheet for common markdown in a panel on the left when in edit mode, not a comprehensive list (and I'll add some common LaTeX stuff in a bit) but better than knowing nothing.
1) Click the link in the article, intro page didn't load (during the brief watcher script error)
2) Navigate directly to Notepag.es, get a blank doc
3) ... Crap, I don't remember any Markdown aside from italics, the app is pointless without that knowledge.
Naturally, I could open up separate tabs with that info, but keeping it self-contained helps the lazy users. If not a more fleshed-out guide, at least putting relevant links on the page would be nice -- going back to the intro page for that info is not intuitive.
Seeing a little bit of Markdown in action when editing the Introduction page is nice. You could stand to draw more attention to that -- my first thought when presented with a blank screen is "Well what do I do now?" whereas a page that has some pointers/suggestions/samples gets me engaged and helps me see the added value.