Commonplace 1.0: one loop

Commonplace started as a place to keep notes. Over time it grew a reading list, a newsletter, sprints, and an extension — useful pieces, but pieces. With 1.0, they finally work as one loop, and we have a new tagline to match: turn what you read into what you share.

Here’s what changed.

Your public site has a persistent nav

Visitors to your site can now move between your feed, sprints, and newsletter without hitting dead ends. Your site reads like a place, not a pile of pages.

One feed

Notes have merged into the blog. Everything you publish — notes, bookmarks, lessons, highlights — lives in a single filterable feed. Fewer places to look, fewer decisions about where something belongs.

Sprints are public

Your reading sprints now have public pages. When you work through a topic deliberately, others can see the path you took — and take it themselves.

The reading list is a triage queue

The reading list is now built for one job: deciding what to read next. The oldest saves surface first, and each card shows how long it has been waiting. Nothing gets to hide at the bottom forever.

Highlight capture from the extension

The Chrome extension (v0.16.0) can now capture highlights. Select a passage on any page, save it, and it lands in Commonplace with its source attached.

Newsletter and subscriptions, together

Your newsletter settings and your subscribers now live in one place, so publishing to the people who read you takes fewer steps.

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That’s the loop: save something with the extension, triage it in the reading list, read it in a sprint, jot what you learned, and share it from your site. 1.0 is the first version where every step feeds the next.