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Reading is a dedicated writing and discussion platform designed to be the definitive home for diverse forms of written content. Users can publish and engage with essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and white papers. The platform prioritizes usability, plainness, safety, and longevity, fostering meaningful connections and discussions among writers.
How It Works
- Create Connections: Establish links between posts, users, and archives.
- Mentioning: Reference writers with '@', archives with '$', or posts with '&'.
- Editor Use: Compose and format content easily with the intuitive editor.
- Tree Explorer: Navigate interconnected content using the interactive Tree Explorer.
- Access: Reading is free to use with an access key, available via invitation from a community member.
Use Cases
Publishing Diverse Content
Share essays, criticism, manifestos, fiction, diaries, scripts, blog posts, and white papers in one unified platform.
Collaborative Writing Projects
Work together in teams or groups, using shared feeds, reference lists, and permissions for joint initiatives.
Personal Blogging and Journaling
Create and manage a private, organized space for your thoughts, daily journals, or personal blogs.
Secure and Private Content Sharing
Maintain control over your writing—with privacy, safety, and no public vanity metrics.
Features & Benefits
- Plain and utility-focused editor with no vanity metrics
- Drafts for private document management
- Full control over permissions for viewing and contributions
- WYSIWYG hotkeys and markdown shortcuts
- Markdown preview for easy post copying
- Integration with React & Emotion for custom components
- Seamless mentions for posts, archives, and users
- Annotations to facilitate in-depth discussions
- Feedback pins for direct draft feedback
- Thread-based discussions and centralised inbox management
- Mobile web inbox for responding to messages on the go
- Shared feed for collaborative projects
- Collaborative reference lists
- Archive permissions for managing shared archives
- File system for personal organisation of posts
- Powerful search with paragraph highlights
- Export folders as markdown archives
- API access for programmatic management
- Mobile web access to your personal library
- Customisable profiles with biographies and signatures
- Activity feed for staying updated
- Custom domains for personal websites
- Tree Discovery for exploring content
- End-to-end encryption of posts
- No popularity feeds or global search (privacy focus)
- Commitment to platform longevity and independence
- Meaningful content discovery via annotations and Tree Explorer
Target Audience
- Authors and Essayists: For essays, criticism, manifestos, and fiction.
- Bloggers and Journalists: For blog posts, diaries, and white papers.
- Collaborative Teams: For shared writing projects, permission management, and building references.
- Privacy-Conscious Users: For writers valuing access control and privacy.
- Community-Oriented Individuals: For those seeking an invite-based, discussion-focused writing community.
Pricing
- Reading is free to use with an access key obtained via invitation.
- Free users have access to the majority of available features.
- Details about paid tiers or premium plans are not available.
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