Leaflet

Newsletter Mode: subscribe to Leaflet publications by email!

Lab Notes 026: take your publication beyond the Atmosphere with email newsletters, now available with Leaflet Pro

Leaflet Pro: power tools for publishers

Lab Notes 025: launching v1 of Leaflet Pro, our paid plan for writers, with publication analytics and lots more planned!

Fonts and footnotes!

Lab Notes 024: adding curated (and custom) typefaces to Leaflet theme options, and a whole new way to add footnotes (and sidenotes!) to posts

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New and improved Leaflet Reader

Lab Notes 023: Leaflet Reader now has "new" and "trending" feeds, post recommendations, and more!

New year Leaflet improvements roundup

Lab Notes 022: kicking off the year with new features like page width, small/large text, cover images, and editable post dates; and improving everything from mentions to block handling to our Bluesky …

Leaflet, standard.site, and open social publishing!

Lab Notes 021: launching a set of shared standards for social publishing, migrating Leaflet to use these new lexicons, and how we plan to grow publishing × open social together!

Profile pages in Leaflet

Lab Notes 020: you now have a profile page on Leaflet, showing your bio, publications, posts, comments, and subscriptions!

Bluesky thread viewer

Lab Notes 019: a new thread viewer for Bluesky posts, both as embeds within posts, and in the quotes / mentions section!

Experimenting with tags in Leaflet

Lab Notes 018: a simple implementation of global tags for Leaflet posts, to help writers and communities coordinate and find each other — with some early examples and ways to try!

Atmospheric @-mentions!

Lab Notes 017: mention Bluesky accounts, Leaflet publications, specific posts and more to come — an interface for links across the atmosphere

Looseleafs — publish standalone Leaflet posts to AT Protocol!

Lab Notes 016: unifying Leaflet so that any doc or canvas can be published to atproto, in a publication or by itself

Notifications in Leaflet

Lab Notes 015: we now have in-app notifications for post comments, replies, and new publication subscribers

Polls in publications — what block should we add next?

Lab Notes 014: help us test our newest block type…by voting on what block to add next in Leaflet!

Pub subpages & other recent features!

Lab Notes 013: publications can now have nested pages — illustrated here with pages about embeds, comments, and more

Towards Leaflet for Fandom

Lab Notes 012: exploring ways we might improve Leaflet for fandom and writer communities, from tags to expressivity to better comments and conversation

Towards Leaflet for Scientists

Lab Notes 011: ideas for now we might make Leaflet better for scientists, researchers, and academic communities

Towards Leaflet for Artists

Lab Notes 010: first in a series exploring how we can make Leaflet more useful for specific creators & communities, starting with artists…from photographers to comics makers!

Longform Lexicons for ATProto

Lab Notes 009: thinking about how Leaflet can play nicely with other apps and lexicons for longform publishing, for the good of the atproto ecosystem [reply to "The Lexicon Interop Problem"]

Quotes: social sharing on Bluesky!

Lab Notes 008: a way to highlight and post excerpts from Leaflet publications to Bluesky, to share love & start conversations!

An open letter to Substack creators

Lab Notes 007: a note to those who find Substack useful, but use the platform reluctantly; an invitation to join us in publishing on a more open network.

Scheming on Theming!

Lab Notes 006: on theme design in Leaflet, and challenges in balancing freedom for self-expression with keeping things simple and fun to use, from visual hierarchy to optimal accent colors.

Let's write: join our summer blog club

Lab Notes 005: spinning up a loose collective to harness blog energy on Leaflet & play with publishing in conversation…join and write something new each week!

Ideas for publication discovery

Lab Notes 004: thinking through different approaches to social discovery, from feeds to curated collections to explorable interfaces.

Leaflet's tech stack

Lab Notes 003: on our app framework, database, and editor layers…and how atproto completes the stack to enable open social publishing!

Subscribing to publications via atproto

Lab Notes 002: atproto subscription for Leaflet publications — how it works; why we started here; what's next

Opening the lab doors

Lab Notes 001: going to press, Building on Bluesky, designing blogs, starting to make publications!