A composer for link roundups, not a block editor

The links are already there when you sit down to write

The reason curated newsletters slip is almost never the writing. It is that send day arrives and you have to reconstruct a week of reading from memory and twenty open tabs. The library fixes the collecting habit rather than the writing one. A button in your browser puts whatever you are reading into your library in two clicks, with the title and description already pulled off the page, plus a box for the thought you will want later and would otherwise forget.

Links your readers send you land in the same library, sitting alongside the ones you found yourself. Nothing needs forwarding out of your inbox, and the good link somebody sent on Tuesday is still in front of you on Thursday.

Paste a link, get the details

Add a link directly and we go and read the page for you, so the title, the description and the preview picture are filled in before you start typing. You fix the title when the original is bad, which it often is, and write your own sentence or two underneath.

When a page gives us nothing useful, which happens on sites that hide behind a login, the fields come back empty and you fill them in yourself. Nothing breaks, and nothing invents a description you did not write.

Sections are the structure

An issue is a set of named sections with links inside them. Call them what you like, reorder them, drag a link from one to another when you decide it fits better elsewhere. A section with nothing in it simply does not appear, so you can keep a Sponsored heading set up all year and it only shows up in the issues that have a sponsor.

Inside your note you can bold a word, put something in italics or add a link, and that is deliberately the end of the formatting. Your commentary is the reason anybody subscribed, so we never rewrite it, shorten it, or offer to improve it for you.

What you see is the email

Flick between the email and the web version while you write. Both are the real thing rather than an impression of it. Send a test to yourself and it goes out exactly as your readers will get it, which doubles as a check that everything is working before the issue that counts.

Issues save themselves as you go. A scheduled issue stays editable, and you can pull it back to a draft at any point before it starts sending.