I have made a few updates that should make working with polls easier.

GoatMatrix embeds polls into text posts, or any text content, instead of using a different post type. This means you can embed multiple polls into a post. It also means you can format text above and below a poll.

Prior when embedding a poll you would need to make the poll as a separate action. This would give you an example MatrixDown command to paste in your post.

Now MatrixDown supports making the poll within the text. It uses the same syntax as before but now you just replace the id with a poll title (non-numeric) or omit the id all together. The following lines are treated as options for the poll until an empty line is found.

Example:

!POLL My inline poll
Option 1
Option 2
Option 3

When you go back to edit the post you will see that it replaced your poll with an ID. But you can still edit the poll thanks to the other new features which are author controls. These controls let you remove an item, add an item, or edit the items themselves.

Here is a short video covering mostly the same information. One update since I recorded the video. Escaping now works