Guide
The editor
Headings, lists, tables, highlights, pictures, mathematics and link cards — and the short list of things that get removed when you save.
Working on text you have selected
Select some words and a small toolbar appears over them: bold, italic, strikethrough, underline, a link, an inline formula, and the highlighter.
The highlighter has five colours — yellow, peach, mint, sky and lavender. In the quieter worldview presets they are drawn as a marker stroke across the baseline rather than a filled block, so a highlighted sentence still reads as a sentence.
Pictures
Drag a picture into the writing, or paste it. It uploads as you keep typing. Several pictures at once become a group you can switch between a carousel and a grid of two, three or four columns.
- Drop the pictures where you want them.
- Use the controls on the group to choose a carousel, a grid, or separate pictures.
- Give each one alt text — it is what a screen reader will read aloud.
Tables, links and mathematics
A table is inserted by choosing its size from a small grid. Column widths can be dragged afterwards, and rows and columns added or removed from the table's own menu.
A link can be plain — a few words that lead somewhere — or a card, which fetches the page's title, description and picture and lays them out as a preview. If a page offers nothing to preview, the card quietly becomes an ordinary link rather than failing.
Typing two square brackets opens a list of your own drops, so one piece of writing can point at another by name. Mathematics is written in LaTeX, inline or as its own line.
What gets removed when you save
sizuq stores the writing, not arbitrary markup. When a drop is saved it is passed through a filter that keeps a known set of elements and discards everything else. Almost nothing you can do in the editor is affected — but if you paste from another site, some of it will not survive.
- Pictures must be ones you uploaded here. A picture linked from another site is removed, which also means no invisible tracking pixels can be pasted in.
- Links may point to a web address or an email address, and open in a new tab with the referrer withheld.
- Colours, fonts and sizes pasted from elsewhere are dropped. The writing takes the reader's chosen presentation instead.
- Scripts and embedded frames are never kept.