Leaflet Lab Notes

Behind the scenes as we build Leaflet, an open social publishing tool for blogs, newsletters, and more!

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

May 08, 2026

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!

March 25, 2026

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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

March 06, 2026

New and improved Leaflet Reader

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

February 13, 2026

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

February 03, 2026

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!

January 23, 2026

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Profile pages in Leaflet

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

December 19, 2025

Bluesky thread viewer

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

December 18, 2025

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!

December 12, 2025

Atmospheric @-mentions!

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

December 11, 2025

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

December 09, 2025

Notifications in Leaflet

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

November 21, 2025

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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!

October 29, 2025

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Pub subpages & other recent features!

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

October 21, 2025

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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

September 22, 2025

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Towards Leaflet for Scientists

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

September 17, 2025

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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!

September 04, 2025

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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"]

September 03, 2025

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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!

August 01, 2025

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