SURPRISE: Now we have a model new textual content editor! Our superb alchemist beta testers have given it the ultimate rundown, it’s already gaining mythic tiers, and it’s prepared to be used!
What’s new in World Anvil’s Visible Editor?
We’ve taken all of your suggestions on board and made these key adjustments to your writing expertise:
- No BBCode for formatting! Format sooner and see it in real-time.
- Autolinker and browser Spell Checker (and a great deal of different enhancements!) now included.
- Instantaneous tables! Instantaneous lists (bullets and numbers)!
- Drag and drop photographs immediately into your texts
- Faster to embed timelines, maps, household bushes and different entities, utilizing a / command menu
- Add spoilers, key worth pairs, and cube curler buttons in seconds.
Get the full information to World Anvil’s Visible Editor!
The place can I play with this new editor?
In order for you a taster, the Visible editor is already accessible for everybody while you create articles and secrets and techniques! You may also choose the Visible editor for a brand new world, which implies you’ll see it for article creation and edit (fast and full edit), timelines, and extra.
Within the pocket book, the brand new Visible editor has additionally been carried out! Your new notes will routinely be created within the new Visible editor (referred to as “Customary editor” within the pocket book). If you wish to, you may nonetheless create “plain” notes just like the outdated type notes. For instance, some customers discover the pocket book an amazing place to retailer BBCode or CSS snippets, and plain textual content works higher for these instances. If that’s you, simply toggle the drop down from “Customary Editor” to “Plain Editor [BBCode]” while you create your notice.
Don’t fear – nothing has modified along with your outdated notes. They’ll nonetheless be within the “plain editor”. Sooner or later, we’ll be bringing within the probability to replace your outdated notes to the brand new editor, however that’s not accessible proper now.
Finally, this editor may even exchange the outdated WYSIWYG editor (Plato) throughout worlds. We’ll be rolling it out throughout pre-existing worlds at the moment set to Plato (Outdated WYSIWYG)!
Have you ever tried out the Visible editor? Tell us the way you discovered it through our suggestions type!
Suggestions is so essential for making World Anvil higher, so please fill within the suggestions type for those who’ve examined out the brand new Visible editor. We do in depth testing, however when YOU GUYS (and there are LITERALLY MILLIONS of you!) tell us the way you discovered one thing, we will get the breadth of suggestions to understand how its working, and what enhancements nonetheless should be made!
Why did World Anvil create a brand new Visible Editor?
Put merely, you requested us for it! Following your suggestions in January’s Forge the Future 2024 (our annual survey), we’ve invested a number of time, effort and analysis this 12 months into making a shiny new Visible Editor. You requested for an editor which was extra newbie pleasant, and didn’t want BBCode to format. You additionally requested for a neater strategy to make tables, add photographs, and see your formatting in your textual content in actual time. And we listened! In fact, the brand new editor additionally nonetheless needed to work with article mentions, map (and different WA entity) embeds, and all the opposite main capabilities of World Anvil! It’s been a troublesome journey, however we’ve integrated all of your suggestions into the brand new Visible Editor.
And it looks like we’ve bought it proper thus far! Right here’s what our alchemist beta testers are saying:
- Immediately creating and modifying embedded secrets and techniques is the very best function ever!!! | -Soullink
- I’m loving this new interface. Particularly which you could edit articles with out having to exit the present web page | -coolg1319
- The up to date instruments are great! Comfort all day lengthy! | -jdebroart
- Love the brand new article fast create. The icon choose subsequent to the title is ✨ superb | -pomegarnett
- Love the brand new create button! | -mochimanoban
- The title bit from the brand new create button is REALLY RAD! I find it irresistible | -incaseofgrace
- I already find it irresistible | -milladamen
- Wow, simply wow! | -graylion.
- I barely observed [the UI changes], it was so clean and good. | -nnie
What can’t the Visible Editor deal with?
The visible editor is designed for traditional formatting and embedding on World Anvil. You may add line breaks, headers and quotes, alouds, spoilers, photographs, and so on. Lists and tables of all types are simpler than ever. And you are able to do fancy issues with colors you couldn’t earlier than! You may, after all, additionally embed World Anvil maps, household bushes, aloud and quote bins, and secrets and techniques.
Nonetheless, the Visible Editor isn’t designed for actually superior formatting. If you happen to’re a World Anvil POWER consumer, and you want to make use of superior BBCode formatting like containers, subscriber containers, or columns in your articles, then you must follow the Euclid editor.
By default (and based mostly in your suggestions!), Euclid customers will nonetheless have the visible editor on Article Create and Secret Create. Nonetheless, Euclid customers will be capable to change this later, by world, to a “Euclid All over the place” setting!
And for those who’re a CSS wizard, don’t fear! There’s no influence in your world and article CSS, no matter which editor you used to create it.
So what are your ideas on the Visible editor? Tell us through our suggestions type!
Psst! If you happen to created your account after 1st October please ignore this announcement! You have already got the brand new editor in your world!
