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The platform in the order you'll actually use it — from a blank account to published, collected work.
An internote is an interactive document, written in Chalk.
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Open Studio and press Create (top right), then choose Internote.
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Pick a template — Blank, Maths, Programming, or Literature; the last three start you with worked example blocks instead of an empty page. You can also switch to Upload .chalk File to bring in an existing document.
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Give it a title, an optional description, and up to 7 subject tags. Tick Lesson Internote if it's teaching material — readers can filter Explore down to lessons.
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Choose visibility — Public (anyone can find and view it once published) or Private (only you and people you share it with). You can change this later.
Pressing Create takes you to the new internote's page. It starts as a draft — nobody else can see it until you publish.
Editing happens in place, on the internote's own page.
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On your internote's page, press the Edit internote button in the sidebar. A floating toolbar appears with everything you need.
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Work in Visual mode to edit blocks directly on the rendered page — right-click any block to edit, duplicate, move, or delete it — or switch to Source for the full Chalk code. The Visual view is the live render, so there's no separate preview.
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Press Add on the toolbar to open the element palette — searchable, organised into Blocks, Inline, and Media. The toolbar's help button opens the documentation panel alongside.
Everything autosaves as you go — the toolbar shows Draft, Auto saving…, and when it last saved. If your Chalk doesn't compile, the error appears in Source mode; your work stays saved either way, it just can't be previewed or published until it compiles. The full language reference is in the Chalk manual.
Drafts are yours alone until you say otherwise.
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Press Publish on the editor toolbar. Once live, further edits accumulate as draft changes — the toolbar reads Draft changes — until you press Publish changes again.
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The toolbar's overflow menu also holds Discard draft changes, Unpublish, and Delete internote. Unpublishing keeps your draft but permanently discards the published version.
You can also publish in bulk from Studio: select rows and use Publish, Unpublish, Make public, or Make private. Drafts are marked with an orange Draft badge throughout, and Studio's header counts them — "3 drafts · 12 published".
A map curates internotes into a learning path or collection.
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Press Create in Studio and choose Map. Give it a title and tags, then add at least one internote — search your own or others' — and press Create Map.
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On the map's page, Edit map opens arrange mode: drag internotes freely on the canvas, or apply a layout from the Templates menu — Tree, Radial, Linear, Burst, or Columns. Add Internote searches your internotes, with a New shortcut to create one on the spot.
Maps have no separate publish step — visibility alone decides who sees them. Readers can track their progress through a map as they complete its internotes.
The reading side of the platform: Explore to find, Library to keep.
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Explore is where you browse everything published — filter by subject, sort by recency, likes, or views, narrow to internotes or maps, or flip on the Lessons toggle for teaching material.
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On anything you read, the sidebar offers Bookmark, Rate (like or dislike), Share, and Mark as Completed. Bookmarks take a colour, and you can rename each colour to make it a category of your own.
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Library is your personal reading space — your bookmarks grouped by colour, everything shared with you, what you've completed, and a Continue Learning row to pick up where you left off.
Sharing a private internote is how you collaborate: the Share modal invites people by email with View or Edit permission.
Shared spaces for a school, team, or project.
A site has its own address, admins, and published content. You join one through an invite link a site admin shares — opening it while signed in shows a Join page for that site — or an admin adds you directly by email.
Once you contribute to a site, the create modal gains an Owner choice, so new work can belong to the site rather than to you personally — site content is published under the site's name and editable by its contributors.
Running a site yourself? The site admin guide covers the admin area tab by tab.