Your blogs, newsletters and calendar, right beside the book.
Writing the book is half the job. Salt of the Page runs the other half too: blogs for every website you publish to, a year of post ideas, newsletter issues, website analytics, one calendar for everything and a shared to-do list.
Blogs for every site you run.
A bar across the top switches between blogs, and the plus button adds another: your author site, a series site, a pen name. Each one keeps its own posts, ideas, site address, start date and posting days.
Write a post with its kicker, keyword, excerpt and hero image, run the checklist, preview it in your site's own design, then publish with one explicit click. Nothing goes live without a preview.
Blog Ideas
A year of posts, charted like a voyage.
Blank calendars are where blogs go quiet. Blog Ideas lays every post your blog could carry along a dotted route: a stop each week, a post every Tuesday and Thursday, for 52 weeks. Generate the ideas from your own manuscript, then just follow the chart. Try the example below.
An example plan for a novel set in the Caribbean
The voyage
52 weeks · a post every Tuesday and Thursday
OpenIn progressPublishedYou are here
Islands Each topic is an island. Pick one to light up its weeks.
The voyage
Every dot is a week. The seaplane marks this week, gold dots are being written and green ones are published. Pick a week to see just its posts.
Your sailing orders
This week’s two posts, stamped with the day and who’s writing it. Press Start writing and a draft opens in the blog hub with the title and notes filled in.
Draw a wild card
Not feeling this week’s pair? Deal one idea from anywhere on the route instead.
Islands
Each topic is an island. Bigger islands hold more ideas, and a green flag means one has been published. Pick one to see only its ideas.
Two kinds of posts
Search posts carry a keyword and a web address, each paired with a behind-the-book Logbook entry. A hub post anchors every topic.
Charted from your book
Your own AI reads the manuscript and charts ideas from its places, people and machines, without repeating the ones you have. Add your own, or download the list.
A chart for every blog
Each blog you run gets its own voyage, posting days and progress, all on the one calendar.
How far you’ve come
A ring fills as posts go out: ideas published out of the whole plan, at a glance.
Newsletters, without starting from a blank page.
Turn a Logbook entry into a newsletter issue, send it through the newsletter service you connect, and keep a sign-up form on your site. Run one list for everything or one per website.
Know who's reading.
Analytics shows who is visiting each of your sites, with exact counts from a privacy-friendly counter and no cookie banner, next to how your writing is going over the last 14 days.
One calendar for the whole operation.
Signings, calls, deadlines, launches and trips sit next to every blog's posts, the blog plan and the to-do list. Filter by kind, or read the next 30 days as a list.
A to-do list for two.
Hand each other jobs, give them a day, add up to twenty photos, and tick them off together. You both see the same list on every device.
Ideas, before they float away.
Story sparks, odd facts, places, characters and photos from the dock, in one board you can search.
Questions
About blogs and newsletters.
Can I run blogs for more than one website?
Yes. Add as many blogs as you need. Each keeps its own posts, ideas, schedule and site address, and the calendar shows them all together.
Which newsletter services does it work with?
You connect a newsletter service in Settings. Issues are written in Salt of the Page and sent through your service, and a sign-up form goes on your site.
Does it add cookies to my website?
Analytics uses a privacy-friendly counter with exact numbers and no cookie banner.
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