Your workspace
Posts
Everything you keep in ohm is a post: an essay, a note to yourself, a photograph, a link. A post is a piece of Markdown with a date, and it can be one sentence.
This describes ohm as it is planned. The workspace in the browser is not open yet. What is built
What a post has
- A body, in Markdown.
- A date.
- A title and a subtitle, if you give them.
- A label, and a sublabel if you use one. Labels
- Who can see it. A new post is private. Who sees a post
- Pictures and files placed in the body.
You do not choose what kind it is
ohm reads what kind of thing a post is from the post. It is not shown on your site. It tells other software what it is looking at, whatever you called the section it sits in.
| What the post contains | Read as |
|---|---|
| A title, with text and anything placed in the text | writing |
| No title: a thought, a caption with a photo | note |
| Only one image | image |
| Only images, more than one | gallery |
| Only video | video |
| Only audio | audio |
| Only files, such as a PDF | file |
| Only attachments, of more than one kind | media |
| No title, and a link on a line of its own | link |
| The same, when the link plays something, such as a video page | embed |
| No title, a quoted passage, and a link to its source | quote |
| Nothing but a list | list |
| Nothing but code blocks | code |
So two posts under different labels can be the same kind, and one label can hold several kinds.
Pictures and files
Drop a file into the post, or paste the address of one that is already on the web.
- ohm fetches the file once and keeps a copy. The post then no longer depends on the other site staying up.
- The original address is kept with the copy, as its source.
- An address ohm cannot fetch is named when you save: one that needs a sign-in, or a path on a machine ohm cannot see.
- A very large file is kept whole in your workspace. A reduced copy is published, and it points to the full one.
An attachment is an image, a video, audio, or a file such as a PDF, EPUB, ZIP, CSV or text file.
Describe a picture in its alt text. In a post with no words of its own, that description is also what names the post in lists.
Links
A link on a line of its own, in a post with no title, makes the post a link. ohm saves what the page says about itself: its title, description and preview image.
A link that points straight at a picture, a video, an audio file or a document is taken in as that thing. A photograph is an image whether you upload it or point at it.
| The whole post is | What is kept | Read as |
|---|---|---|
| A link to a photograph | The photograph, with the link as its source | image |
| A link to a PDF | The PDF, with the link as its source | file |
| A link to a video page | The link, with the page's title and preview | embed |
| A link to an article | The link, with the page's title and preview | link |
| A sentence, then a link to a photograph | The sentence and the link | link |
Connecting posts
A link from one post to another is a connection. Use it for a reply, a follow-up, or the next part of a series. A post can connect to as many as 32 others.
A public post that connects to a private one does not show the private post's title, or that it exists, to anyone who cannot read it.
A post's address
A post's address is built from where it is filed and its slug.
/posts/writings/collisions/trap-of-independency
label sublabel slug
- Change the slug and the address changes. For a published post, the old address sends readers on to the new one.
- Move the post to another label and the address changes too. Publish shows you the new address before it does anything.
- A slug is used once in your workspace.
Deleting a post
Deleting a private post removes it from your workspace. With a folder connected, the next Sync asks before removing the file.
Deleting a post that is published removes it from your site at the next Publish. Copies that other services already made stay where they are.