BoffinBrain

I was thinking for a while now about giving Eclipse another chance and write a followup to my last journal. It's been 4 months, after all, and a few things have changed. (I would like to link you my old journal decently for comparison, but the new journal editor won't let me add a simple text link, and i don't want a giant thumbnail breaking the flow of this.) So, in order to get me in the proper mindset, it would make sense to try Eclipse for a while, and even use the Eclipse tools to write this journal. (Spoiler alert: it ruined my day.) The first hurdle in writing this was finding the textarea – you know, the input field where you write your actual journal in. This should be a no-brainer, but believe it or not, i could not find it at first. On the top of the page it says "Add your title here", so that's pretty straightfoward at least. But where's the main textarea? There's only a Plus icon with a greyed out "Share what's on your mind". When i click the Plus, i get a popup that lets

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