Fill in the Backdate field when you are creating a new entry, or editing one you’ve already posted. You can select the date from the popup calendar that appears when you click on the Backdate box, or you can type in the date in yyyy-mm-dd format (for example, 2021-10-24 is October 24, 2021).

Backdated entries will not appear as new entries on the front page or in Bookmarks. They’ll be listed as though they were actually posted on the date you typed in.

You don’t have to fill in the date yourself. If you leave the Backdate field empty, the current date will automatically be filled in for you. The post time under the title of the entry at first reads something like “55 minutes ago” or “5 hours ago” or “5 days ago”. It will display as an actual date after the entry was posted more than a week ago.

Backdating entries changes their order in your book. Entries appear in reverse chronological order (oldest entries last).

• Go to the book you want to back up (My Prosebox -> Profile -> Books tab)
• Click on the book you want to back up.
• Click the Export button (above the book title).
• An email from boxprose AT gmail DOT com will be sent that contains a link you can use to download your diary. Be sure your spam filter lets that address through. The email address associated with your account will be used.
• Click on the link in your email to download the backup file.

Currently, the backup is in plain text, but it preserves any HTML you’ve embedded, with links to any videos or images. The file lists book entries in chronological order (oldest first).

Comments on entries are not currently included in the backup.

Entries appear in reverse chronological order in a book (newest entries first).

Backdating entries changes their order in your book. Go to the entry you’d like to move and click Edit entry. Fill in the Backdate field (at the bottom) with a more recent date if you’d like to move the entry up in the entry list, or fill in an older date to move the entry further down the list.

You can select the date from the popup calendar that appears when you click on the Backdate box, or you can type in the date in yyyy-mm-dd format (for example, 2021-10-24 is October 24, 2021).

Your profile page lists your books. By default, the books are placed in alphabetical order. You can change the order of the books any way you like.

• Go to your profile page (My Prosebox -> Profile).
• Click the Books tab.
• Click on the Sort my books button below the list of Books.
• Drag and drop the boxes around the books in the list to change their order.

You can navigate away from this page however you like when you’ve rearranged the Books to your liking. The book order you choose will be remembered when you write entries from now on. The default Book for an entry will be the first in your book list, so it’s probably a good idea to make the first book in the list the book that you write in the most.

You can provide a description of a book that will display to the left of the list of book entries when someone clicks on the book title. Here is an example of a book page with a description:

To create a description for a book you’ve already created:

1. Go to your list of books by clicking on your name in a note or entry, or by clicking on My profile in the My Prosebox menu.
2. Click on the title of the book you want to write a description for.
3. Click on Edit book.
4. Add the description. You can do anything in the description that you can do in an entry (add images, HTML, and so on) but keep in mind that the description is NOT an entry; it describes the contents of the book.
5. Click on Save changes.

Descriptions are optional. If you don’t want one, just leave the description box blank.

To change the privacy settings for a book you’ve already created:

1. Go to My Prosebox -> Profile, and click the Books tab above your list of entries.
2. Click on the title for book you want to change.
3. Click Edit at the top of the page.
4. Under Privacy*, select the privacy level you want for the entries in this book.
   • Public books and entries can be seen by anyone, without being logged onto Prosebox. This setting won’t be available if you’ve checked Hide me completely from public view on your Settings page.
   • Members Only books and entries can be seen by anyone who is logged into Prosebox.
   • Friends Only books and entries can only be seen by people you’ve added to your Friends list. Friends Only entries won’t be listed on the main page.
   • Private books and entries can only be seen by you.
5. Click Save changes.

1. Click on My Prosebox -> New book… from the main menu.
2. Give your book a title. When entries in the book are displayed, the title of the book will be displayed below them.
3. You can (optionally) describe the book.
4. Under Privacy*, select the privacy level for your book. This controls who you want to be able to see the entries in this book, by default. (You can increase privacy on individual entries, but not decrease.)
   • Public books and entries can be seen by anyone, without being logged onto Prosebox. This setting won’t be available if you’ve checked Hide me completely from public view on your Settings page.
   • Members Only books and entries can be seen by anyone who is logged into Prosebox.
   • Friends Only books and entries can only be seen by people you’ve added to your Friends list. Friends Only entries won’t be listed on the main page.
   • Private books and entries can only be seen by you.
5. Click on the Save Changes button.

A book is a collection of entries that have a common theme and privacy level. For example, you could create four books like this:

• My Diary - Members Only
• Pictures of My Cat - Public
• My Dream Journal - Private
• My Food Journal - Private

Entries would be written within those different books.

You’ll need at least one book to write entries. You can create additional books if you’d like to keep a group of related entries together, or if you’d like to post entries with a different privacy level than you’re using in other books. The privacy levels you set on books are the default privacy settings for entries. You can increase the privacy setting per entry within a book, but not decrease it. (So, if you’re writing in a Public book, you can increase the privacy on an entry to Friends Only; but, if you’re writing in a Private book, you can’t make a specific entry Public.)

When you create an entry or edit an existing entry, check the box that says Comments closed before you save the entry.

If anyone has left comments before you do this, you can make them private by clicking on the little lock icon next to the comment, or you can delete them by clicking the x-icon .

When you create an entry or edit an existing entry, check the box that says Private comments only before you save the entry.

If anyone has left comments before you do this, you can make them private by clicking on the lock icon next to the comment.

You may occasionally get blank notes. Nothing’s wrong; some people leave blank to notes to show that they’ve read your entry, but they had nothing to say.

You can leave blank notes by hitting the Reply or Leave a comment buttons without typing anything.

You must go to the entry where the comments were posted to hide them. They can’t be hidden from your Comments Received or Comments Sent pages at this time.

To hide a comment:

1. Go to the entry where the comment was left.
2. Three icons on comment the comment you created:
   
   • The Edit comment icon (paper and pencil) will allow you to edit a comment you have left.
   • The Hide comment (private) icon (lock) will make that comment private; it will only be visible to you and the person who left it. (This can get a big wobbly when it’s in a nested thread, though.)
   • The Delete comment icon (the X) will delete the comment.
3. Click the lock icon.
4. A page will display a prompt confirming that you want to make the comment private. If you’re sure, click Yes, hide it.

You can use some Markdown and some HTML in comments, but not all of the code that works in an entry will work in a comment.

• To force a line break in a comment, type two spaces on the end of a line and hit ENTER (or use a
  code).
• To force a paragraph break in a comment, leave a blank line (hit ENTER twice).
• You cannot insert images into a comment.
• You can emoji in comments. If you’re not using a mobile device, it’s easy to search the web for something like “laughing emoji” and find somewhere to copy/paste the image.
  • Emoji can be inserted differently than other images. You can literally just copy/paste the emoji itself into an entry, without any of the usual “insert image” requirements. 😊
  • (That emoji was copied from Emojipedia, but there are plenty of others out there.)

The following FAQ pages explain text formatting in more detail (TBA soon).

• How do I make text bold, italic, or small?
• How do I put an asterisk or an underline in my text?
• How can I insert fancy characters?
• How do I make subscripts and superscripts?
• How do I highlight or color text?

You can edit comments you left for other users.

1. Go to the entry where the comment was left.
2. You’ll see two icons to the top right of any comment received from someone else, or three icons on comments you created:
   
   • The Edit comment icon (paper and pencil) will allow you to edit a comment you have left.
   • The Hide comment (private) icon (lock) will make that comment private; it will only be visible to you and the person who left it. (This can get a big wobbly when it’s in a nested thread, though.)
   • The Delete comment icon (the X) will delete the comment.
3. Click on the Edit button. A page will display reminding you to use the Edit Comment feature responsibly, and displaying your current comment as-is.
4. Edit your comment for typos or clarity as needed, and then click Save.

Marking a comment as “private” makes it visible only to you and the person who wrote the entry you’re commenting on.

Just check the Private box before you click on the Leave Comment button.

If you forget to make a comment private that you intended to:

1. Go to the entry where the comment was left.
2. Three icons on comment the comment you created:
   
   • The Edit comment icon (paper and pencil) will allow you to edit a comment you have left.
   • The Hide comment (private) icon (lock) will make that comment private; it will only be visible to you and the person who left it. (This can get a big wobbly when it’s in a nested thread, though.)
   • The Delete comment icon (the X) will delete the comment.
3. Click the lock icon.
4. A page will display a prompt confirming that you want to make the comment private. If you’re sure, click Yes, hide it.

You can delete your own comments. You can only delete other people’s comments when they are responses to your comments or your entries. You must go to the entry where the comments were posted to delete them. They can’t be deleted from your Comments Received or Comments Sent pages at this time.

Deleting comments:

1. Go to the entry where the comment was left.
2. You’ll see two icons to the top right of any comment received from someone else, or three icons on comments you created:
   
   • The Edit comment icon (paper and pencil) will allow you to edit a comment you have left.
   • The Hide comment (private) icon (lock) will make that comment private; it will only be visible to you and the person who left it. (This can get a big wobbly when it’s in a nested thread, though.)
   • The Delete comment icon (the X) will delete the comment.
3. Click on the X button. A pop-up will appear that warns you that deleting the comment will also delete any replies to the comment. You can cancel, or select Yes, delete it.

To leave a new comment:

1. Click on the Leave a Comment button at the bottom of the entry you want to comment on (or scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page, past comments others may have left).
2. Type your comment into the blank box with your profile icon next to it.
3. If you check Private, the comment will be invisible to everyone but the entry writer and you.
4. Click the Leave Comment button.

Note: Comments can be up to 4000 characters.

Prosebox has "threaded" comments, so you can reply to other comments directly. To reply to a comment, just click on the Reply button under the comment on an entry or a comment in your Comments. Type your comment in the box that appears, and click the Reply button again to send the comment.

• There will be no Reply button under your own comments. Unfortunately, Prosebox won't let you have a conversation with yourself.
• The person you're replying to will receive the comment in their Comments.
• If you've already replied to a comment, you'll see a button that says You replied. in your Comments. Clicking on that button shows your reply.
• Comments can only be nested 3 deep; the Reply button isn't available on level 3 comments.

Markdown is a filter that converts plain text that you type into your entry into HTML. Prosebox runs your entry through the filter when you post it; while you’re editing an entry, you see the raw Markdown code.

Here are most of the Markdown codes you’ll want to use on Prosebox.

The buttons on Prosebox’s temporary entry editor can insert some of these codes for you.

The best way to see how Markdown works is to play with this online Markdown editor: http://dillinger.io/

Markdown is meant to make elementary formatting easier. It doesn’t give you as much control over the formatting and layout of your entry as HTML does. If that’s important to you, you can ignore Markdown and write your entries in HTML. It isn’t a good idea to try to mix Markdown with HTML; the Markdown filter doesn’t look at text that’s wrapped in HTML tags.

You can learn more, including more advanced Markdown tags, on this Markdown Quick Reference Cheat Sheet.

Until Prosebox has a true WYSIWYG, or What You See Is What You Get, editor, you’ll have to insert formatting codes into your entries to format text and arrange images, video, and other media on the page. There are two types of formatting codes:

• Markdown is a simple set of codes for formatting and sectioning text, making lists and block quotes, inserting images, making links, and so on. It doesn’t provide much power for doing more complex layouts.
• HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is a rich set of “tags” that will let you layout your entry almost any way you want on Prosebox. It isn’t as convenient as Markdown, and it’s a bit harder to learn.
  
  Not all of the HTML you may know will work on Prosebox, and some of the HTML that does work will work differently. Prosebox uses a framework called Twitter Bootstrap so that your entries look just as good on a phone or a tablet as they do on a browser.

You may be looking at your list of Unread bookmarks. Instead, in the Bookmarks menu, you could select Latest or All. This will show both read and unread entries in your Bookmarks.

You can also mark an entry as Unread so that it will still show up in your Unread Bookmarks, and you can remember to come back to it later. Click the Unread button at the top of the entry (just to the right of the entry title).

Note: Prosebox currently lists only the most recent 200 bookmarked entries.

To un-friend someone:

1. Go to the profile or any entry by the person you want to un-friend.
2. Under their name you’ll see a button that says Friend.
3. If the button is green, click on it. It will turn white. A white Friend button means that they are not on your Friends list.

This will make it so that they are no longer able to read your Friends Only entries.

To un-follow someone:

1. Go to the profile or any entry by the person you want to un-follow.
2. Under their name you’ll see a button that says Follow.
3. If the button is green, click on it. It will turn white. A white Follow button means that they are not on your Bookmarks.

1. Go to your Settings page. (Misc -> Settings)
2. Check the box next to Hide me from Friends OF lists.
3. Click Update Settings.

If you do this, you’ll disappear from other people’s Friends Of lists. This option was meant to minimize drama when you unfriend someone, but your friends may wonder whether you’ve unfriended them when you disappear from their lists.

In the main menu, go to My Prosebox -> Friends Of. You’ll see a current count of writers who have listed you as a Friend, along with a list of profile pictures and names. Clicking on the names takes you to the writer’s profile page. You will be able to see any Friends Only books they have written.

You may have more friends than the list shows. Some writers may have hidden themselves from Friends lists, and they will not be counted or listed. You will still be able to read their Friends Only books.

Bookmark lists are private. You can’t see who is following you, and no one else can see who you are following, either.

Why was this done? Dropping a person from a public bookmark list might cause hurt feelings or spur drama. Privacy is also a concern: on Prosebox, you are free to read anyone you like, without feeling any obligation to interact with them.

If you’re looking for a specific user, use the Search icon on the right side of the main menu. Type the name of the user you want to find in the Search box, then click Go. You will get a list of all users with that name or also any name that contains the one you searched for. For example, if you search for Chris, you may see users named Christine, Christian, Chrissy, etc.

If you find the name of the user you’re looking for, click on the name, and then you can choose to Follow or Friend them.

If you’re wanting to browse for other people to Follow, rather than a specific user, there are several ways you can do this.

• You can read Recent Entries from the Prosebox home page, and Follow users who you find interesting.
• Some people notice that the same user leaves comments on some of the same other users as they follow, and might look into them since they have mutual users in common.
• You could go to Misc -> Browse Users in the main menu. Users are listed by Newest by default, or you could select an Alphabetical listing.

When you go to the page or an entry of a Prosebox user, you’ll be able to see these two options: Follow and Friend.

When you Follow someone, it means you’ll be notified when they write Public or Members Only entries. If they add you as a Friend, you’ll be able to read their Friends Only entries as well.

The people you Follow will show up in your Bookmarks.

When you Friend someone, you allow them to read your Friends Only entries.

Will my Friends be notified when I write a Friends Only entry?
If they have chosen to Follow you, your new entries will show up in their Bookmarks.

I don’t remember who I’ve added to my Friends list!
In the main menu, go to My Prosebox -> Friends. You’ll see the list there.

How do I know if they’ve added me as a Friend?
In the main menu, go to My Prosebox -> Friend Of. These are the users who’ve allowed you to view their Friends Only entries. Note: Any users who have checked the “Hide me from Friend Of lists” setting will not show up in this list.

Prosebox will give you a generic profile picture when you first create an account:

If you prefer, you can upload your own profile picture to the site. Note: Prosebox hosts only profile pictures. You’ll need to upload your other images to another site, such as flickr, imgur, or another image hosting website of your choice.

Selecting a profile picture

• Sexually explicit profile pictures aren’t allowed on Prosebox. They can lead to the deletion of your account. See Prosebox’s Terms of Service statement for more.
• Upload square images. If you upload a rectangular image, Prosebox will crop it.
• Prosebox resizes the image to 120 x 120 pixels for your profile page, and 56 x 56 pixels for display in comments and entry lists. For best results, resize or crop the image to 120 x 120 yourself before uploading.

Uploading your profile picture

1. Go to Settings (Misc -> Settings in the menu)
2. Under your current profile picture, click Change icon
3. Click Browse. A File Upload dialog will appear. Use it to browse to the directory where you’ve stored your new profile picture. Click on the new profile picture, and then click OK.
4. Click Save Changes. Your profile picture should be changed.

1. Go to your Settings page (Misc -> Settings in the menu)
2. Click on the Change Password… link.
3. Type your new password in both the Password* and Confirm Password* boxes.
4. Click on the Change Password button.

You can also use the Forgot your password? link on the Login page to reset your password.

• Go to your Settings page (Misc -> Settings in the menu)
• There’s a big red button on the bottom of the page that says DELETE PROSEBOX ACCOUNT.
• If you click it, you will receive a warning that you’re about to delete your Prosebox account, along with all of your books and entries.
• Click the DELETE PROSEBOX ACCOUNT button to complete the process, or Cancel if you have second thoughts.

If you delete your account, ALL of your books and entries will be deleted. They cannot be recovered. Notes to others will remain, however, with the name changed to “Deleted user”. Be aware that blocked users will be able to see any public notes you’ve left behind.

***Take deletion seriously. ***

If you’re not sure if you want to delete your account, but you are sure that you want your entries to be unable to be found, you can take precautions such as:

• Privatize all your Books
• Change your account email and/or password, if you are concerned about hacking
• Change your account username, to make yourself harder to find

1. Go to Settings (Misc -> Settings in the menu)
2. Click on Change display name… next to your current username
3. Change your display name as preferred
4. Click the Change display name button

Please note: If you change your username, the friends who read you will see your with your new username, but they may not know it is you initially. It is good etiquette to let you readers know who you are in the first couple of entries you write with your new username.

1. Go to Settings (in the menu: Misc -> Settings).
2. Click Personalize.
3. Choose your main background color, side background color, and side background pattern.
4. Click Update preferences.

If you don’t like the colors and/or pattern you chose, go back to Settings and try again.

1. Go to Settings (in the right on the top menu bar, it’s Misc -> Settings).
2. Click on the Change… link next to your email address.
3. Enter your new email address
4. Click the Update email address button

This will now be the email address you will use to log into Prosebox.

• Are you sure that you’re using the right password and email to log in?
  -Try doing a password reset, just in case.

• Try deleting your cookies.
  A corrupted cookie already stored on your computer may be causing the problem. Follow these steps to remove possibly corrupted cookies:

  • In Firefox: Select History > Show All History. Right-click on a history entry for Prosebox, and select Forget about this site. Close the library window. Try to log in again. If you still can’t, you’ll have to delete all of your cookies. Select Clear All History. In Time range to clear: select Everything. Click the arrow next to Details. Select both Cookies and Cache. Click Clear Now. Try to log in to Prosebox again.
  • In Chrome: Select the Chrome menu icon . Select Tools. Select Clear browsing data…. Check the box that says Cookies and other site and plug-in data. Click Clear browsing data. Try to log in to Prosebox again.
    
    

• Check your browser plugins and extensions.
  If you’ve installed a new plugin or extension, try disabling it.

• Check any security applications you’re running.
  Some security and privacy applications have features that block cookies. Check the documentation that came with your software or visit the software provider’s support site, to see if your application includes a cookie control feature and how you can change those settings.

YOU hold the copyright for anything you post on Prosebox. Prosebox is merely a vehicle for publishing your work; the site and its administrators don’t own your entries. User-generated content of any kind is the property of the user who generated it.

Even if you don’t explicitly mark an entry with a copyright notice, your work is protected by copyright from the moment you create it until at least 50 years after your death. After that time it becomes public domain (and anyone can do anything they like with it).

For more about how copyrights work and what protection they give your work, see
http://copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html

Don’t use your real name for your account on the site that is hosting your images. For example, if your flickr username is some variation of your real name, a Prosebox user can click on your image and find you.

Don’t link your images on Prosebox back to the site that hosts your images.

Make albums on your image host private, so no one can page through all of your pictures.

When you upload to YouTube, you can set your video’s privacy as Public, Unlisted, or Private.

It’s Public by default, and anyone can view it or find it with Google. If it’s Unlisted, no one can find it with a search, and they can only see it if they have the URL. If it’s Private, only you and users you select can see them (and those users need to be logged in with their Google ID’s).

If you want to post YouTube videos to Prosebox that aren’t available to non-Prosebox users, choose Unlisted on YouTube, and make your entry Members Only or Friends Only on Prosebox.

1. Go to your Settings page. (Misc -> Settings)
2. Click on Change Password.
3. Type your new password in both the Password* and Confirm Password* boxes.
4. Click on the Change Password button.

You can also use the Forgot your password? link on the Login page to reset your password.

Yes. Prosebox uses Google Adsense, which scans the content of entries and comments and tries to serve ads that match any keywords it recognizes.

Prosebox attaches code to your entries that transmits data about site visitors to Google’s servers. The data includes things like the specific page you’re viewing, the type of computer and browser you’re using, how you arrived at the site, your general location, and the way you navigate the site.

About half of all the other websites you visit do the same thing. This may seem creepy, but Google Adsense cannot tie your information to your name or identity on Prosebox.

All of the information Google Adsense sends and collects is anonymous. If you view an entry, Adsense will send a message to Google like “Someone from Hoboken, NJ viewed this entry on 7:25 PM on 2/19/2021, using Chrome 32.0.” Google’s servers will reply, “That entry contains the keyword ‘pizza’, so display an ad for pizza places in Hoboken.”

Your notes on Public entries won’t be scanned and cached on Google if you check “Hide me completely from public view” on your Settings page. (Misc -> Settings)

Hide me completely from public view hides your comments from any new pages that Google caches. It won’t remove pages that Google has already cached. It may take several months for pages that Google has already cached to disappear.

Public entries on Prosebox can be found using Google. If you don’t want that, write your entries in books that are Members Only, Friends Only, or Private.

If you don’t want any of your entries or comments on public entries to show up on
Google, go to your Settings page and check the box that says Hide me completely from public view. This will also hide your profile page from Google.

If Google has already cached your pages, it can take several months for the pages to expire from its cache after you check Hide me completely from public view.

You can block specific people from reading your entries and your comments.

1. Go to the person’s profile page (by clicking on their name in a comment or an entry, or by finding their name with User Search).
2. Press the red BLOCK USER button in the lower right hand corner of the page.
3. You’ll be asked if you really want to do this. Hit OK to block the other person, or hit CANCEL to back away.

Keep the following in mind:

• Blocking is currently permanent.
• You will no longer have any relationship with the other person (Friends and Following between you are deleted).
• Neither of you will be able to see each other’s entries anymore (unless they are Public and you are logged out).
• All comments between the two of you will be deleted, and you will not be able to see each other’s comments at all (unless the comments are on Public entries and you are logged out).
• You can block an account, but you cannot block their IP address. This makes it possible for the other person to make another account to get around your block. If this other person is seriously stalking, threatening, or harassing you, report them to [email protected].
• If you delete your account, all of your notes will be marked as being written by “Deleted user”, and all of your relationships will be deleted—so any public notes you left before deleting will be once again be visible to users you have blocked.

You can change the size of the font using your browser's zoom settings.

• To zoom out, press Ctrl – (or ⌘ – on a Mac).
• To zoom in, press Ctrl + (or ⌘ + on a Mac).
• To restore the font to the default size, press Ctrl 0 (or ⌘ 0 on a Mac).

If you have a modern browser, it will remember your zoom settings for the website.

Sometimes you want to read a writer’s entries in chronological order, without caring which book the writer placed them in.

While on another writer’s entry:

1. Make sure the Author tab is selected at the top of the entry.
2. Use the Previous or Next buttons to navigate through that writer’s entries in chronological order.

Or, you may only want to read entries in a particular book that another writer has created. In this case, while on another writer’s entry:

1. Make sure the Book tab is selected at the top of the entry.
2. Use the Previous or Next buttons to navigate through entries only in that book in chronological order.

Or, you may want to read all of your bookmarks in the order they posted their entries, regardless of who wrote them. To do this, while you’re on someone’s entry:

1. Make sure the Bookmarks tab is selected at the top of the entry.
2. Use the Previous or Next buttons to navigate through entries written by all of your bookmarks in chronological order.

Click on a writer’s name to see their profile page. Click the Books tab on their profile.

• Public books are visible to everyone.
• Members Only books are only visible when you're logged into Prosebox.
• Friends Only books are only visible if they've put you on their Friends list.
• Private books are visible only to their writers.

To keep our community safe and enjoyable for everyone, we have a few spam protection measures in place:

New Accounts: If you’re new, you won’t be able to post public entries for the first week. This helps prevent spam from new, unverified accounts.

Rate Limiting: To avoid spammy behavior, there’s a limit on how quickly you can post. If you try to post multiple public or members-only entries within a short time frame, you may be temporarily banned from posting. This ban is lifted after a short period, but repeated violations will result in longer bans.

Accounts Less Than Two Years Old: If your account is less than two years old, you can only post up to eight public or members-only entries within two hours. If you exceed this limit, you’ll first get a captcha and a warning, and continued violations can lead to a two-week suspension or even account deletion.

These rules help us keep Prosebox a spam-free and welcoming space for all our writers! If you ever run into any issues or believe you’ve been flagged by mistake, please reach out to us at [email protected].

By default, no, editing an entry doesn’t make it show up again on the front page, and it doesn’t change its position in other’s bookmarks, either.

If you want it to mark as new in bookmarks, you can check the box Mark as revised (will bump entry in bookmark lists) when editing an entry. Then, it will show up in others’ Unread Bookmarks, with a Revised flag.

Checking that box does not cause the entry to display under Recent Entries on the front page.

This can be done in one of two ways:

You can save the entry in a book that has the privacy level you want. All entries placed in Friends Only books will be Friends Only by default, and all entries placed in Private books will be Private by default.

Or…

You can change the privacy level on an individual entry to a level more secure than the book’s default setting. So, for example, if you’re writing in a Public book, you can increase the privacy on an entry to Members Only, Friends Only, or Private; but, if you’re writing in a Private book, you can’t change the privacy level to anything less restricted.

1. Go to the entry you want to move.
2. At the bottom of the entry, click the Edit entry button.
3. Use the Book drop-down menu to select the book you’d like to move the entry to.
4. Press the Save button.

Note: Once the entry is moved, it will inherit its privacy settings from the book you’ve moved it to. For example, moving an entry from a Public book to a Friends Only book makes the entry Friends Only.

Moving an entry to another book does not change its URL, so any links made to the entry from other entries won’t break.

You can’t edit the entry while you’re previewing it. The Preview button is a toggle; it changes to an Edit button when you’re previewing. Click on Edit to be able to edit again.

Select the pencil icon in the top right menu bar:

OR

Select My Prosebox -> New entry… from the main menu bar.

For detailed instructions on formatting your entries (e.g. images, lists, etc.) see the Entry Layout book. Here are some simple codes you can use. Type them directly into your entry:

Which set of codes should you use? Markdown is easier to type, but HTML gives you more options and more control over the way your entry looks. Don’t mix the two; Markdown won’t always work inside HTML tags.

On nonmobile displays, a floating toolbar is available to the write of the entry screen to insert a few of the Markdown codes for you:

To use this, highlight the text you would like to modify first, and then click the appropriate button.