Roadmap

While in Beta, I want users to be able to volunteer and help out with Inkwell (i.e. artists to create stamps, developers to help create a mobile app, etc).

When a new Letter arrives, both the Letters and Notification icons show a number badge. Accessing the new letter from the Letters icon and reading it, does not clear the number badge on the Notification icon. I either have to open and close the new letter twice or click both the Letter and Notification icon to clear it. This is redundant so disabling new letter notifications from appearing in Notifications would prevent the double notifications.

I already have a self-hosted Wordpress blog that I journal on, connected to the Fediverse with the ActivityPub and Mastodon Apps plugins so any posts I make on my Wordpress blog, also automatically crossposts an excerpt of them to Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, etc. I already have more than 20 years of journaling on my Wordpress blog, and would like to interact with the community here with other fellow bloggers, but starting over from zero here or copy+pasting individually doing twice the work, is not something I'm going to do. I would just like the full length of the posts to crosspost here, but even though I'm signed into Inkwell with my Wordpress instance, they don't crosspost here. Is crossposting from Activitypub something that's coming or can be added? Thanks.

When you go to enter a letter, the text box will appear white and display text appropriately. However, when clicking/tapping out of it (say, to scroll up to read a previous letter) the text box turns black, which hides the black font and makes it look like the text is gone.

As a writer, I want to see previous versions of my entries and restore an earlier draft if needed so I can revise freely without fear of losing earlier work. Each explicit save (plus auto-saves every few minutes while the editor is open) would create a timestamped snapshot stored server-side. From the editor, writers could open a Version History panel showing all snapshots with relative timestamps, a diff view highlighting what changed, and a Restore button that loads the selected version as the current draft.

As a serious writer, I want a clean public profile option that presents my work as an author page rather than a social media profile, with my bio, featured series, and recent entries as the primary focus. An Author layout preset would de-emphasize social signals like stamp counts and follower lists, and instead highlight: a prominent bio, a pinned entry or featured series, a clean chronological archive with pagination, and an RSS subscription link. The focus would be on the writing itself, similar to a personal author website rather than a social feed.

As a Plus subscriber, I want to point my own custom domain at my Inkwell profile so my journal feels like something I truly own rather than something I rent from a platform. Writers would configure a CNAME record in their DNS provider pointing to Inkwell, then enter the domain in their settings. Their profile page, all entries, and RSS feed would be served from their custom domain (e.g. journal.myname.com) while remaining fully part of the Inkwell network. Inkwell would handle SSL provisioning automatically via Let's Encrypt.

As a writer, I want my published entries to be optionally emailed to my followers who opt in to email delivery so I can reach my audience the way Substack and Ghost do, without requiring them to check the platform. Writers could toggle email delivery per entry at publish time. Followers could opt in to email updates from specific writers they follow. Plus subscribers would have full email delivery to all opted-in followers; free tier might be capped (e.g. up to 100 subscribers). Entry emails would render the full content with a header, the writer's name, and a link back to the platform.

As a writer, I want to organize my entries into named series or collections so longer works, essay sequences, and ongoing projects feel cohesive and are easy for readers to navigate in order. A collection would have a named landing page listing all entries in order, prev/next navigation between parts, a series badge on each entry card, and the ability to feature a series on your profile. Suggested for: book-length projects, multi-part essay sequences, travel diaries, year-in-review threads. One of the most-requested features from writers migrating from Medium and Substack.

Reddit feedback asking to add patreon or tip jars for readers. I should look at adding that availability again for pro users.

Since there are no algorithms, if people want to search similar reads, categories will help organize and improve accessibility.