I think there needs to be a printable view enabled.

It can be either done with CSS or having a button that converts the document into a printable view (ie. hides the left pane)

We just lost a document due to a human error I believe. A 3-5 edits revision history would be maybe something useful. Or a snapshot from the last time somebody access the document.

Not sure about logic, but would have to be simple.

After a while documents list fills with empty drafts ( e.g. from opening socrates.io )

Due to the loading times, sometimes i don't know if a document is still loading, or already loaded and simply empty.

Would be great to indicate that a document is empty in the documents list - e.g. ( empty ) or red color or similar; so we could safely remove them without waiting for the loading period on each of them

I am trying to put it up on s3. I am getting an error in app-model.js

   Document : function (body) {
    window.analytics.track('Create New Document');

    Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'track' of undefined

    return this.fetchDocument(this.generateDocumentId(), body);
},

So it wont me create new posts.

You can check it at: http://cabrillo.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/

Just saw this mentioned by Smashing Magazine (https://twitter.com/smashingmag/status/268462875205566464) and is looks very nice.

Editing the sample at http://socrates.io, I immediately deleted some text, made changes, then wanted to undo - but alas, it didn't work (Google Chrome 22.0.1229.96 m).

It's pretty fundamental to text-editing. Any plans to support CTRL+Z?

Well this is annoying. It seems that including braces {} to group an expression in a subscript breaks math as demonstrated on Chrome 32 below.

Hey I would like to have separable scrolls since often the page goes off the screen with my markdown (120 lines)!

I have tried to use http://www.waynemoir.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/split.page.with.no.frames.html

however it seems like that typing in the textarea resets the position for some reason.

I'm trying to show screenshots from cloud app. They're shown at full resolution.

![alt](//….png)

.document-article img { max-width: 100% } would be nice. Or even something like {max-width: 145%; margin-left: -20% }

Hi,

It seems that if you try to replace the default markdown document in app-model.js (l. 198-223):

onboarding = [
    '# Socrates now supports LaTeX Math!\n',
    'If you haven\'t used it before, Socrates is a real-time [markdown](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/) editor in your browser. And **today we added support for beautiful math**, using [MathJax](http://mathjax.com/)!\n',

    'Let\'s derive the quadratic formula. Starting with:',
    '$$ ax^2 + bx + c = 0 $$\n',

    'We\'ll move around the constant terms and coefficients:',
    '$$ ax^2 + bx = -c $$',
    '$$ x^2 + \\frac{b}{a} x = -\\frac{c}{a} $$\n',

    'Then we add a new mystery constant so that things will simplify later:',
    '$$ x^2 + \\frac{b}{a} x + \\frac{b^2}{4a^2} = -\\frac{c}{a}  + \\frac{b^2}{4a^2} $$\n',

    'Then it\'s a simple matter of boiling this down to the final solution:',
    '$$ x^2 + \\frac{b}{a} x + \\frac{b^2}{4a^2} = \\frac{b^2 - 4ac}{4a^2} $$',
    '$$ \\left( x + \\frac{b}{2a} \\right)^2 = \\frac{b^2 - 4ac}{4a^2} $$',
    '$$ x + \\frac{b}{2a} = \\pm \\sqrt{ \\frac{b^2 - 4ac}{4a^2} } $$',
    '$$ x = - \\frac{b \\pm \\sqrt{ b^2 - 4ac } }{2a} $$\n',

    '$$ \\Box $$\n',

    'Keeping all of the LaTeX math syntax in your head is no easy feat, but you\'ll find the [Art of Problem Solving Wiki](http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/LaTeX:Symbols) is an invaluable reference.\n',

    'Happy mathing!'
].join('\n');

by something such as:

onboarding = [
    '# Placeholder Title',
].join('\n');

There is a rendering issue in Firefox 19.0 (Windows 7). It works fine in Chrome, though.

It also seems that the rendering issue doesn't appear when some Latex is provided, such as:

onboarding = [
    '# Placeholder Title',
    '$$ ax^2 + bx + c = 0 $$\n',
].join('\n');

UI buttons does not have any short description on them, you must push to see what they do. It is good practice for UX to see some delayed description when hover on UI buttons even if the icon looks descriptive. Simple HTML title attribute should be enough.

https://github.com/honza/socrates has been around for 2 years +

A comments feature where people can comment on a paragraph like on medium.com. This is quite the extensive request, but would be kick-ass.

To keep it simple it would be without authentication, just with a color that the user can define the note should display surrounded with. Notes only visible on hover-over.

I have been using socrates.io for several years, and of course today is the day. All is gone. Was this intentional or a glitch that will be repaired?

Sometimes it is really hard to see if the document is empty or loading slowly due to latency. So you have to wait 5-10 seconds or more before touching it.

A loading indicator would be really helpful

it always takes me to a fresh document, which I then have to delete, and switch back to my most recent doc that i was editing before i closed the tab.

It seems that Socrates already puts code blocks through Rainbow's syntax highlighting, but all the work Rainbow does isn't visible without a theme.

If there is an issue with the currently available themes not matching the minimalist styling of Socrates, Highlight.js is a great alternative to Rainbow.

http://socrates.io/#Ngd9o70; check browser console.

With a document of the form

my title

.... // note, 2 paragraphs and one code block for instance

Editing the '#' on and off will cause ~3 seconds blocking (cpu at 100%, Core 2 Duo laptop). Not on the first deletion though. I assumed it was a remote modification of the list of articles, but couldn't see network requests in Chromium devtools.

Hi
I have used socrates for my class notes, but I face the following pains:

• Too much rendering makes it look bad. Can't we render LaTeX only when someone is editing them, and not while non LaTeX part is being edited
• LaTeX text size is too small

Also, I want to change the socrates code to allow me to publish article to my repo, where I store my class-notes. I would like if somehow I could start a server someplace, and the push from there to my repo. I am completely new to web development, so I really need some help in figuring out how to do this.

• Only a thought: Ability to add charts, say using Google api??

making them not so smart...

When composing a long document, we need to scroll all the way to the top to be able to click the read or write buttons.
User experience could be improved by having them fixed at the top.

<button class="write-only-button ss-write"></button> and <button class="read-only-button ss-view"></button> buttons should be set position: fixed.

This is not need for the add and menu buttons, as the user would seldom use them.

It seems like markdown tables don't work. Am I doing something wrong?

Example: http://socrates.io/#5qtZPP7

Screenshot:

any two $ in a document make everything between them math

I can't figure out how to edit, yet the introduction I read said I simply edited text "on the left"
(I can't find this page again - the link takes me someplace else now, to a poem by Beverly Dingus)

Something really nice would be a unique read-only link that people could send out. That link would only show live-changes but not allow editing.

Person visiting that link cannot edit the original. This would be great for sending out quick proposals, or to keep notes of a running meeting where only selected persons can contribute ( they edit the original link )

A link written like this: NP
renders it as: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP_(complexity", missing the closing parenthesis.

socrates is really nice for writing ideas out and drafting documents or copy or w/e. i probably have 2-5 pads i'm actually working on at any given time. i don't just want to delete the rest of the pads though, so it would be cool if i could hit "archive" to send them to my email or a folder in my dropbox.