Our tiny manual!

Leaflet's nice & simple, so this won't take long :)

Quick to make

Go to leaflet.pub to make a new doc — no accounts needed.

Easy to share

Publish a view only link, or share an edit link to invite collaborators. Just two clicks, that's it!

Block editor

Add blocks for rich text, images, nested pages, links and embeds. Edit with headers, highlights, even foldable lists (checklists, too).

One page, or many

Start with one page, add linked pages as needed, and open them side by side — great for wikis, manuals & more.

Pages can be documents (linear) or canvases (visual layout).

Collaborative by default

Multiple people can edit a Leaflet doc at once (live cursors + other multiplayer features to come!)

Custom themes

Edit your document's color scheme — text, page, accent colors, background image — to make each Leaflet unique.

Experimental features:

Mailboxes: send readers updates from any Leaflet doc with a mailbox block — nice for docs you want people to return to, like lightweight newsletters or collaborative to do lists.

Leaflet is a project from the creators of Hyperlink Academy, a school–software studio–research lab making better tools for learning and collaboration.

We're a team of three based in Brooklyn, NY and we've been working on Leaflet since mid-2024.

We're exploring some fun ideas for Leaflet, both new features and ways of using the app:

New block & page types — like canvas pages for visual thinking, or HTML blocks to easily add embeds

Social annotations — expressive ways to mark up and respond to a doc, from stickers to spatial comments

Programmable documents — ways of interacting with docs programmatically; or generating new components within a doc

For our NYC friends, we're also hosting writing sessions, bringing people together to draft and publish particular types of docs…like manifestos, recipes, or poems.

While the app is in alpha, we've got a small email list where we share insider updates and test Leaflet. Reach out if you'd like to join us on the delightful document frontier :)

—Brendan, Jared, and Celine

Leaflet is a new product and at this stage there's inherent uncertainty about it's long-term future. That said, we place a lot of importance on stability and peace of mind for the documents we create.

While we can't guarantee zero bugs or infinite lifespan, we can make the following commitment to you. If the hosted Leaflet app (leaflet.pub) shuts down in the future, we'll provide:

at least six months notice before switching to read-only, and at least twelve months of hosting read-only documents

a way to download Leaflets (JSON file + attachments) that can be imported into a self-hosted version of the app (source here)

There's more we'd like to do, like additional export options, but this feels like a reasonable baseline! Please reach out with any questions.

Brendan, Jared, & Celine

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update log

initial version posted 9.26.24