Quickstart

This page takes you from no account to a saved, versioned note. It should take about five minutes.

1. Create an account

Go to knowdust.com/register and sign up with your email and a password, or with your Google account. You'll pick a username — that's the address of your workspace.

The free plan needs no card and doesn't expire. Everything in this quickstart works on it.

2. Meet the workspace

After you log in, you land in the workspace. It's deliberately quiet — most of the screen is the writing surface. Around it:

Left — the notes sidebar: your list of notes and folders, a search box, and a "New note" button. Press Ctrl/Cmd + B (or click the logo, top left) to hide or show it.
Top left — the note's title. Click it to rename the note.
Next to the title — a small dot and a word or two of status. While you type it reads "writing…"; a moment after you stop, the dot turns brass and it reads "saved · version kept". That's knowdust saving for you.
Top right — the mode switch (Write / Split / Preview), History, Export, Settings, and your account menu.

Your first note, "welcome", is already open. You can write over it — an earlier version will keep the original text, as you're about to see.

3. Write something

Click into the page and type. That's it — there's no save button to remember. A version is kept automatically about a second and a half after you pause typing. If you want to save at a specific moment, press Ctrl/Cmd + S.

Try typing this:

# My first note

Hello. This line will change in a minute.

The # makes a heading — that's markdown. Click Preview in the top right to see the note as formatted text, then click Write to come back. (Markdown basics explains all of it, gently.)

4. Change it, then travel back

Now replace the second line with something else — say, Hello again. The old line is not gone. Pause, and watch the brass dot settle: another version kept.

Click History in the top right. The history rail opens, showing your versions as layers — newest on top. Click an older layer and the editor shows exactly what the note said back then. You're just looking; nothing has changed yet.

Click Restore this version to bring the old text back. Restoring adds a new version with the old content — the in-between versions all stay in your history. In knowdust, going back never destroys anything.

Press Esc to leave the preview or close the rail.

5. Where to go next

Unsure about markdown? Markdown basics starts from zero.
Curious what else the editor does? The editor.
Press ? anywhere in the workspace for keyboard shortcuts and a compact markdown reference.

That's the whole loop: log in and write, kept forever.

Something on this page wrong or unclear? Tell us — it'll be fixed.