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Building a writing app means making a lot of small choices about how writing should feel. Here I write about those choices, what changes in Spleen, and what I learn while building it.

  • Two weeks live

    Olaf

    5 min read

    Spleen went public on 5 September. Two weeks and nineteen releases later, the editor was fine. Almost everything around it needed work.

  • Why Spleen has no word goals

    Olaf

    2 min read

    A word goal can tell you how much you wrote. It cannot tell you whether the writing got better.

  • The Trash is a place, not an action

    Olaf

    2 min read

    Deleting should not make your words vanish. In Spleen, Trash is somewhere writing goes until you decide what happens next.

  • What a share link is for

    Olaf

    2 min read

    A share link gives someone a quiet place to read your work without bringing them into your workspace.

  • Why Spleen uses five fonts

    Olaf

    2 min read

    Five fonts live in Spleen. Together they keep the interface quiet and give every writer a page that feels right.

  • The editor should be boring

    Olaf

    3 min read

    The editor is where the writing happens. I want to keep it calm, predictable, and a little boring for as long as I can.