Your workspace
The workspace
The workspace is one page: your labels on the left, the post you have open in the middle, and what that post says about itself on the right. A status line and two buttons, Publish and Sync, sit with them.
This describes ohm as it is planned. The workspace in the browser is not open yet. What is built
Your labels, on the left
The left side lists everything you have, filed the way you filed it.
- A label is a section of your work, in your own words.
- A sublabel is a group inside a label, such as a series or an album.
- Posts sit inside those, private, friends-only and public together.
A post you have not filed sits under other. Labels
The post, in the middle
The middle is where you write. A post is Markdown, so a heading, a list, a link and a picture are all written as text.
What you write is saved to your workspace. Saving shares nothing: a post reaches other people only when you publish it.
What the post says about itself, on the right
| Property | What it is |
|---|---|
| Title | Optional. A post with a title is a writing; one without is a note |
| Subtitle | Optional |
| Date | When the post is from. An imported post keeps its original date |
| Label and sublabel | Where the post is filed |
| Slug | The last part of the post's address. You can change it |
| Who can see it | Private, friends or public |
| Connections | Other posts this one replies to or follows from |
A post also has an ID that is given once and never changes. Renaming or refiling a post does not change which post it is.
The status line
The status line says what is waiting.
- What Publish would do: which posts would become visible, change or be removed.
- What Sync would do, once a folder is connected: which posts would be written to your folder, and which files would come in.
With no folder connected, it also tells you that ohm holds the only copy of your private and friends-only posts.
Publish and Sync
| Button | What it does | What it never does |
|---|---|---|
| Publish | Makes what other people see match your workspace, after showing you the changes | Touch your folder |
| Sync | Brings your workspace and your folder into line, in both directions | Publish anything |
Sync appears beside Publish once you connect a folder. Publish · Sync with a folder
When two things edit the same post
You, your agent and a sync can all change a post. Every save says which version it replaces. If the post changed in the meantime, the save is refused and you are shown the current version, so nothing is silently overwritten.
Finding a post
Search looks through all of your posts, private ones included. Only you see the results.