Lab Notes 033: launching a lineup of new publications reporting on communities across the Atmosphere — give them a read!
Leaflet Lab Notes
Behind the scenes as we build Leaflet, an open social publishing tool for blogs, newsletters, and more!
- Generator
- https://github.com/jpmonette/feed
- Public lists
- davewiner/blogroll
- Fetched
Publication pages and nav, for Leaflet as…website builder?!
Lab Notes 032: custom pages and nav for all your publications — with a whole bunch of great examples showing sites made with Leaflet
Atmosphere Field Reporter Corps
Lab Notes 031: we're drafting a corps good at drafting — apply if you'd like to write a weekly digest on an atmospheric community, and in exchange, get free Leaflet Pro!
Summer Pass — three months free on your first year of Leaflet Pro!
Lab Notes 030: Kicking off a hot hot summer of Atmospheric blogging with a special offer, good through July!
What is Standard Site, and why is it useful?
Lab Notes 029: explaining how Standard Site works, how it compares to RSS, and its utility for readers and publishers
Leaflet Together: cursors, comments, group publications!
Lab Notes 028: a new suite of features to make Leaflet great for collaborative writing and collaborative publishing!
The Standardverse expands skyward!
Lab Notes 027: a major integration to boost blogging on Bluesky, a new Leaflet block type, lexicon additions, and other news from the Standard Site ecosystem
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
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 thread viewer
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.