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toynbee@lemmy.world 4 days agoFWIW, in case you don’t know, Lemmy uses Markdown. IMHO it’s pretty good at formatting and there are lots of guides for it online; just looking up “how to to x in markdown” is likely to get you plenty of results.
In case you want to see the results of particular texts in real-time, there are also editors that will immediately show you what will be the outcome of what you write. These are available locally on your system, but also online:
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
They will never take notes the same way again. You know it’s bad when you use MD with pencil.
toynbee@lemmy.world 4 days ago
When I was a kid, before laptops were commonly accessible, I had a device … I can’t remember what it was called, I keep thinking “Altavista,” but I know that was a search engine, not a device. I do recall that it was blue.
Anyway, the idea was, you’d type into it and it would store what you typed locally. Later, you’d plug it into a computer’s PS/2 port it would reproduce what you had typed by imitating a keyboard and literally typing out what was in its memory. My mom teased me because she’d sometimes review what I had put in and encounter
 .This device was how I discovered Y-connectors, which later resulted in me having a keyboard on my desk and a keyboard in a keyboard tray with one hand on each.
Delilah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Was it the AlphaSmart 3000?
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Bytemeister@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Fuck, I hated those things. I would rather hand-write and then retype than use one of those.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I would guess 2000, since blue.
toynbee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If it wasn’t, it was very similar looking.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
AlphaSmart 2000?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart