Quick start

This takes about a minute and needs nothing installed and no account.

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1. 1

   Open the library#

   On the landing page, choose Open the app. You arrive at your library, which is empty the first time and says No resumes yet.

2. 2

   Make a resume#

   Choose New resume. Leave Start from on Example resume for now: it is a finished resume you can write over, so you can see what each part of the format does before you write any of it. Give it a name if you like, then choose Create resume. A resume with no name is called Untitled resume.

3. 3

   Change it#

   The editor opens on your resume. The Markdown is in the Code pane and the page it produces is the Paper. Change a word in the Markdown and the paper changes with it. On a screen narrower than 1200 pixels the panes are tabs (Code, Paper and Style) instead of sitting side by side.

   Resumes are written like this:

   resume.md

   # Ada Lovelace
   
   ::contact[ada@example.com]{icon=envelope}
   
   ## Summary
   
   Mathematician and the author of the first published algorithm.
   

   Each ## heading starts a section, and the first line is your name. The shape of the file explains the rest.

4. 4

   Check that it saved#

   You do not save by hand. The editor writes every change to your device and says Saved when it has. There is no other copy, which Local first explains.

5. 5

   Export it#

   Choose Export. PDF prints the exported document, so choose “Save as PDF” in the print window and leave the scale and margins as they are. Under File you can instead download HTML, Markdown, JSON Resume, Plain text or a Bundle (.zip).

Where to go next#

• Make a new resume covers blank pages, importing a file and cover letters.
• Organize your resumes covers search, groups and the archive.
• How Rejarsume works explains why the page and the PDF match.