I wanted to raise the bar for what people can do with Leaflet…it's a great tool for a lightweight things like a grocery list, but it really shines when you take the time to make ambitious things with more content and structure.

I think the micro-grants worked for this; we ended up with both ones in use cases we imagined being cool, and several that defy categorization, surprising sui generis delightful docs!

Some thoughts this experiment either reinforced or provoked—

theming makes a big difference; visuals matter!

all our winners customized the feel of their Leaflets, both fun and key for vibes; I feel like many became more memorable due to relatively simple but thoughtful themes

there's more we can do here; for one, we just added per-page theme settings :) we can also explore fonts etc.

nested pages work well for many reasons

both aesthetically and structurally; for both readers and writers — Nathan mentioned how it's great for "deep dives" that can branch, tree-like, a kind of more intuitive footnotes

useful both for adding asides to a main thing, and making an easily navigable hierachy of lots of content (e.g. in Substrates or Beeswax Wraps)

we can make complex things feel simple and approachable

feels like a real strength of Leaflet is making it feel easy and lightweight to make, and easy to navigate for readers, even when a doc has a lot going on

a few here that were pretty long and in-depth but didn't feel overwhelming / tedious to read the way they would in e.g. a google doc

a form factor beyond "documents"

there are lots of things that fit the mold of a Leaflet that we wouldn't typically think of as a "document" — detailed documentation, personal catalogs / archives, winding stories, evolving visual process logs…

documents give us a nice anchor but a Leaflet can be something more / different; we need to better describe that! best current attempt: between a doc and a website

a balance of making and sharing

Leaflet is both an artifact-maker and an artifact-sharer, and this feels like an important balance to strike going forward

again, it's fine for simple ~plaintext things but not what it's best at; easily sharing things that are not only fast but impressive — that's cool!

one balance still TBD is to what degree we focus on making collaborative creation / editing equally great