Chapbook
Pick a template to start, or go blank — then write and publish straight to your repo.
Draft a social post for LinkedIn or Instagram. Nothing posts automatically — you review and share. To write a blog post instead, head to Write.
On a phone, "Share" opens the share sheet — pick LinkedIn or Instagram and post. On desktop you'll get per-platform buttons. Nothing is posted automatically.
A planner, not a poster. Nothing here is published automatically — set an intended date, then tap Share when it's due to open your phone's share sheet, and Mark shared when done.
Catch ideas the moment they land — one line, hit Enter. Promote any idea to a post draft when you're ready to write it.
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Retag
Add and/or remove a topic tag across the selected posts. Each post's frontmatter is updated and committed; live posts redeploy.
Delete permanently?
This removes each post from the repository and the live site. It cannot be undone. To confirm, type delete below.
Fill a post's photo gallery. Pick the post, drop a batch — photos are resized in your browser and their date/camera read before resizing, then committed straight to your repo.
Origin:
Set-up: see CONNECT.md on the laptop.
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Paste a key and tap Use this — Chapbook picks that provider's current model automatically. Keys are write-only (never shown again); save a new key before testing it.
This guides every AI feature — drafts, the writing partner, the goblin, figures. It's a starting point, not a script: the AI captures the spirit, it won't parrot your exact words. Leave a field blank to keep the neutral default.
Chapbook · local build
Fill in your name and blog title; the URL, socials and form endpoints are optional and can be added or changed any time.
By default your blog lives at <you>.github.io/<repo>. Own a domain (e.g. yourname.com)? Point it here. You buy the domain from any registrar — GoDaddy, Namecheap, Cloudflare, etc. — then add the records below.
Note: brand-new blogs created from the template serve straight at your domain's root. A blog made before this feature keeps its /<repo>/ sub-path until its deploy-pages.yml is updated to detect the CNAME file.
The shape that sits at the centre of your Observatory.
Choose which tabs appear, rename them, set the order.
These power your newsletter sign-up and contact form. Grab a free endpoint from formspree.io — create a form, then copy its URL (e.g. https://formspree.io/f/abcd1234). Leave blank to hide the forms; add them any time.
Rename the sections your posts are grouped into — the Observatory's planets. The internal tag stays fixed, so your posts and links keep working; you are only changing how each section looks.
What would you like to do?
New here? Getting started
The quickest path to your first published post — the set-up can wait until the end.
Your writing partner. Tell it an idea in plain words — it drafts a full post in your voice, then you steer it turn by turn (tighten, restructure, add an interactive). It only ever makes a draft; publishing stays a deliberate tap.
Try one of these
Everything you can drop into a post — browse what's available.
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Videos you've uploaded through a post's Video block — transcoded and self-hosted by your Helm. Add new clips from inside a post.
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