We are starting to open up Micro.blog’s notes feature to our standard plan. Private notes with end-to-end encryption and sharing. It used to be limited to Micro.blog Premium. On the web, you’ll see a “Notes” link in the sidebar. Will be fully rolled out with updates to the native apps soon-ish.

@manton I was just re-reading your Notes introduction from February. I could see this as a nice way to directly share info with people that's not secret, but not something you'd post publicly (say, directions to your house). That use could helped if you had a built-in link shortener so you could have subd.micro.blog/directions instead of subd.micro.blog/noufa8Zx80_L - just a thought.

@briandigital Thanks! I like that idea. For now, you could also create a redirect under Pages.

@manton I’m unfamiliar with your version of Notes. Is it like a footnote or a feed from everyone like social media?

@manton @jlward.bsky.social Actually neither, it's for private notes that could be (optionally) later turned into a blog post. Here's the original blog post I wrote announcing the feature.

@jlward.bsky.social Actually neither, it's for private notes that could be (optionally) later turned into a blog post. Here's the original blog post I wrote announcing the feature.

@manton This is great! Thanks for providing more value to your customers, myself included. Do you plan on providing a bit more value for the Free plan? Perhaps something like limited number of total blog posts like Pika blog has come up with. Or a monthly limit maybe.

@moonmehta No plans to, mostly because spammers will abuse anything that's free. I have considered a $1 plan, though.

@manton I can see what you mean. Trying to think more creatively then, how about better exposing the “Bring your own blog” functionality instead? At least after someone has already decided not to be a paid customer.

@moonmehta Definitely interested in doing more there. Anything in particular that would be helpful? Ideally it would be easier to go from free to a subscription and back to free.

@manton Maybe something like “Connect your social media account or blog to Micro.blog. Your posts will automagically show up on your Micro.blog profile for people to reply on.” Then, clicking on the CTA there could present some common options instead of the current method which just says “Add Source”.

@manton @moonmehta I wouldn't mind a cheaper than 5$ plan without podcast/photo hosting.

I do not understand why the bookmarks function is part of the 10$ plan.

Is it just to add more exclusivity to the more expensive plan?
I have the impression that the other features are priced at storage cost.

@idnovic @moonmehta There are extra costs for the bookmarks-related features because it archives and summarizes web pages. But the way I think about it is that by making $10 more appealing we can keep the $5 plan low-cost. It's not an exact science, so we go with what feels right.

@manton @moonmehta Ok. that makes sense. Can you update wavelength app to support the iPad? Every other app runs natively on the iPad.

Lastly if it is not to much work, can you add a build target for macOS? The mobile apps could possibly run on apple silicon macs.

@idnovic @moonmehta I hope we can do a Wavelength update soon! We've been talking about it. I want to keep it up to date and also add special support for the blog post audio narration feature we added recently.

@idnovic As for macOS... I think the native Mac app is the best experience for most things. It can do what Epilogue and Strata do. Wavelength might be an exception, though. Will consider it.

@manton Wavelength could offer iCloud recordings sync. And the macOS version could offer to edit the recording with an third party app on the mac. To allow to cut out unnecessary parts.

@idnovic That would be great. I use Fission on the Mac a lot for quick edits too.

@manton Thank you! That is a generous update by you and your team. I look forward to digging into what Notes can do!

@rglenny Hope you like it!

@manton i see it on the sidebar now but when i click on it it says it's only available to premium users. is making that available also part of the rollout plan?

@manton Cool thing for Micro.blog users. Too bad for premium users, because it diminishes the "premium" a little.

@jedda Oh, sounds like a bug, I'll get that fixed today.

@manton Saw this comment and went to my Notes tab (I am not on Premium). Not sure what it means: Notes are private by default. Use notes to write down ideas just for yourself, or for brainstorming for blog posts. Share a note to generate a unique URL to share with others.

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@ronkjeffries Just fixed that "Premium" message, which was a mistake. I'm working on updating documentation. Also see this blog post I wrote introducing the feature.

@manton That's great! Thank you!