If you're as blind as me (or newer than me on this platform) you should know about this

...unless you really love working with the markdown editor.

When I read @kaylinarts article about How to Organize your Steemit Posts yesterday, I was like...

What? There is an easier way??

Look at this, all you have to do is click on "Editor" on top right of the text field, when you're submitting a post.

And then all these nice little editing icons appear, which we are familiar with from Word, Pages or Wordpress.

So now I went to work, wanting to share this news with you in my first article written in the editor.

... and it's driving me crazy!!!

I thought this was going to be a breeze and sooo much faster, but turns out I have gotten so used to the markdown way, how to format headlines, how to insert and center images - all that works totally different here, or doesn't work at all.

Suddenly I find myself in "raw HTML" mode - well, that's not where I wanted to end up! And I can't switch back to the editor because then all my formatting goes away. Ugh!!!

So this post - instead of taking me half the time, ended up taking me twice the time to write.

So, while I think it's important that you know this, I suggest...

Stick with what you're used to

If you're totally new here and the editor mode is what you're used to, you will be happy to find it here, too.
If you've been writing here for a few months already, like me, and got used to the markdown formatting tools, then maybe stick with that.

Well, we live and learn ;)

PS: Wanna have a laugh?

When I tried to submit the post, I got an error message saying, "All HTML post need to start and end with "html". But it did!!! This error didn't make any sense but I couldn't get rid of it.

So what did I do? Copy pasted the whole thing into a new post and formatted it in markdown (yeah, turns out you can't just switch from editor back to markdown, only from editor to raw html... you have to delete the post and start a new one from scratch).

Well, so we're all a bit smarter today.
I'm still glad I got up this morning ;)

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