DatsBlog
DatsBlog is where you write articles and read them back. Your newest posts appear on your page under My Thoughts.
Everything you have posted is listed down the side, newest first. Tap one to read it; Edit turns the reading pane into the editor, and New article opens a blank one. On a phone the list, the article and the editor are one screen each, and your back button steps back through them. Every article also has its own page with its own address — that is what Copy link gives you.
How to
- Read one of your articles and send someone the linkYou have published something and want to see how it reads, or want to share it.
What it can do
- Write articles with Markdown, with buttons for bold, italic, headings, lists, links and images
- Dictate an article instead of typing it
- Preview an article before publishing
- Read any article you have posted, from the same place you wrote it
- Edit an article after it is published
- Give each article its own visibility, separately from the section it appears in
- Copy a link to an article's own page, to share it
- See an article the way a visitor would
- Download any of your articles as a PDF, or save it to your library
Worth knowing
Your page's My Thoughts section shows your five newest posts — articles and quick thoughts alike — and its Add a thought button opens a new article here.
An article you leave unfinished is kept on this device. A new one waits behind the New article button, which reads Continue draft; unsaved edits to a published article are marked Unsaved changes in the list. One unfinished article is kept at a time: if you start another, you are asked whether to go back to the first or discard it.
The list shows your 100 most recent posts, including quick thoughts written from your thoughts page, and offers Load more when there are older ones.
Who can see it
Each article carries its own badge, chosen next to the Publish button and changeable from the top of the article once it is published. Your My Thoughts section and your account have their own settings above that, and all of them apply: someone can open an article only if they are allowed to see your account, the section, and the article itself. So a Public article inside a friends-only section is for friends, including when it is opened by its link. See The sections of your page and Who can see what.
Where to find it: /your-name