Looseleafs — publish standalone Leaflet posts to AT Protocol!

You can now publish Looseleafs — standalone Leaflets on AT Protocol with all our social publishing features, no publication needed!

Try it: create a doc from home, or directly at leaflet.pub/new, then publish as Looseleaf!

Make a new doc!

From home you can make a canvas too!

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Leaflet started as a tool for simple shareable documents, and when we built atproto integration, we first did it with publications. For a while single docs remained a separate thing.

Now we're finally bringing it all together so anything you write on Leaflet, including single documents / posts, can be not only shared but published to atproto.

Fast fun publishing + social graph, together at last!

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Leaflet Publications are great for blogs, but blogs mean decisions (what should my title be?!) and commitment (or at least intention) to publish regularly. Not everything you want to share needs a blog.

Now with Looseleafs you can do more Medium-style or gdocs-style publishing, or spin up quick one-offs for Bluesky longposting as alternative to the limitations of a thread.

Once you publish, Looseleafs live on your PDS, and support social features like comments, quoting to Bluesky, and @-mentions.

So a) you own your data, and b) it lives in an open extensible ecosystem, with c) a fully social layer built in!

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Any Leaflet — linear doc or canvas — can now be published. Once you make a doc, you have two publishing options:

add directly to a publication

publish that single post as a Looseleaf

So it's not only quick to publish standalone Leaflets, it's also easier to add drafts to publications.

Since drafts are just docs, they support subpages and themes too!

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We're excited for all the ways this can be used beyond blogging, many of which we've seen with v1 of Leaflet — like collections, project notes, scrapbooks, manifestos…

And we're excited to see new shapes for publishing! Poetry zines? Crowdsourced wikis? Creative challenge homepages? Yes please!

Here's a Looseleaf example, a canvas:

https://leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:jjsc5rflv3cpv6hgtqhn2dcm/3m6kjhyrh7k2p

(src link — Looseleaf with another Looseleaf embedded inside!)

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A few other notes:

Drafts / unpublished docs are semi-private (unlisted), and live on our servers, since atproto doesn't yet support private data

You can share a view or edit link for any doc, same as before; it just won't have any social features til it's published

You'll get notifications for comments on posts you've published, in a publication or as Looseleaf

Looseleafs can each have their own theme; if you add a draft to a publication, it will inherit the publication's theme

Custom domain support for Looseleafs is still TBD (you can add to the 'view' link b/c we had this already, but not yet for the published link with comments etc)

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We hope this solves most confusion that came from our prior doc-pub schism; thanks to Dan for a helpful critique thread! We'll look at further improvements e.g. to clarify the new doc menu.

We'd love to see your Looseleafs and hear how we can improve or reduce any lingering points of friction or confusion.

Note that if you've been using Leaflet since way back, you can also publish any doc you made in the past :)

Lots to play with here, give it a try and let us know what you think!