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Publish in ten minutes

Publish in ten minutes

One complete pass through Blueprintr, from registration to a published page.

Walk it as slides first. Five screens, with the control under discussion ringed on each:

blueprint:josh/publishing-your-first-blueprint

Then the same loop in writing:

1
Sign in and finish your profile

Register at blueprintr.io or sign in with an existing account. New accounts are sent to Complete your profile first: a handle and a few interests. The handle becomes the first segment of every URL you publish, so pick one you can live with.

2
Start a blueprint

From the dashboard, choose Create blueprint. You land in step 1, Content.

3
Give it a title and draw

Type a title, then draw on the canvas. The first tab of a blueprint must be a diagram. Vellum is the default editor; other engines are available from the engine menu.

4
Attach detail to a shape

Right-click any shape and choose Add Stratum…, then write a couple of sentences. Do it on the first pass rather than saving it for later.

5
Move to Resources & Strata

Step 2 collects everything alongside the diagram: strata, further diagrams, and uploads. It can be skipped entirely on a first blueprint.

6
Publish

Step 3 is Publish: tags, visibility, and pre-flight checks. Choose Public if you want a shareable link, Private to keep it to yourself. Fix anything the pre-flight flags, then publish.

Your blueprint is now at blueprintr.io/<your-handle>/<slug>.

What to do next

Your first blueprint

The same three steps, in detail, with the parts this page skipped.

Strata

The layered-detail model in full.

Embedding

Put what you just published inside another page.