Your first internote
Five steps from an empty account to a document you are writing. Nothing here is permanent — every choice the create dialog asks for can be changed afterwards.
#Make it
- Open Studio and press Create at the top right, then choose Internote.
- Pick a template. Blank gives you a single scene to start from. Maths, Programming and Literature arrive with worked example blocks already in place, which is the quickest way to see what Chalk can do before you write any of it yourself.
- Give it a title, an optional description, and up to seven subject tags so other people can find it.
- Choose Public or Private. This decides who can see it once published — it does not publish anything on its own.
- Press Create. You land on your new internote, which is a draft only you can see.
#Write it
Press Edit internote in the sidebar — or right-click anywhere on the page and choose Edit. A floating toolbar appears, which you can drag out of the way of whatever you are working on.
You start in Visual mode, editing the rendered page directly: right-click any block to change, duplicate, move or delete it. Add opens the element palette when you want something new on the page.
Everything saves as you go. The toolbar shows what state the document is in and when it last saved, so there is no save button to hunt for.
#Publish it
Press Publish on the toolbar. Your internote becomes visible according to the visibility you chose at step 4 — public to everyone, or private to you and anyone you share it with.
Edits after that do not go straight out. They collect as draft changes that readers do not see until you publish again, so a published internote is safe to keep working on.
#Where to go next
The editor covers Visual and Source in full. Publishing covers draft changes, unpublishing and working in bulk. Making a map is for when you have more than one internote and want to put them in an order.