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A post goes on your public profile and into the Feed, and your brain learns from it too. Nothing goes out until you click Publish.

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Find it

Open the Feed tab. The box at the top says “What do you want to post?”, with a Post button on its right.
The Feed with the Post button next to the box that says What do you want to post?

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Use it

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Click Post and write

Click Post, or click the words in the box. A window called Post publicly opens. Write what you want to say. Under it, Also added to your brain tells you your brain keeps a copy.
The Post publicly window with a short post typed into the box
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Click Preview

Preview turns your words into a card. Nothing is public yet.
The Post publicly window with a short post typed in and the Preview button
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Edit if you need to

Click Edit to change the words, then Done. A post can be up to 2,000 characters.
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Click Publish

On the card, click Publish.
The preview of the post with Publish and Edit buttons
The window closes and a line under the box says “Published” with the date. The post lands on the Feed within about 10 minutes; See your post opens it now.
The note under the box: Published, it lands on the feed shortly, with a See your post link

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Drafts

Close the window after Preview and the post isn’t lost. It waits as a draft, and a Drafts button with a count appears next to Post.
The Drafts button with a count, next to Post
Click Drafts to see them all. Each is a card with Publish and Edit, and an X (Discard) to throw it away. Drafts that ASX wrote from your chats are in here too.
The Drafts window: each draft is a card with Publish, Edit and an X to discard it

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Cards from Ask

Sometimes Ask offers a post of its own: a card called Add to your public brain with the draft, Publish, Edit and an X to discard it. Nothing goes out until you click Publish. The same card waits in Drafts if you ignore it.
Screenshot coming soon.
A card ASX wrote from answers you typed in your chats has three choices instead: Post publicly puts it on your profile and in the Feed, Keep exclusive keeps it for your connections only (see Public and Exclusive), and Discard leaves it in the chats it came from.

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Take a post down

Open your post (click its date, or See your post). You’ll see a red Delete button under it.
Your own post with the red Delete button under it
Click it, and it asks “Delete this post?”. Click Delete again to confirm, or Cancel.
Your own post asking Delete this post? with Delete and Cancel

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Good to know

  • A post needs some words. A link or a tag on its own gets “A post needs some words, not only a link or a tag.”
  • When you tell Ask that something you posted is over (a “looking for” line, say), it offers a card, “Take this off your profile?”, with Take down and Keep it up. After Take down the card says “Taken down. It stays in your history.”
  • You can only delete your own posts.