Each Idea is a different lens on a book. Free members have Dialogue and Analysis. Premium opens the other three.

Dialogue: free · up to 350 words

Your immediate, unfiltered reaction. The brain-dump: emotions, arguments with the book, talking to characters, talking to your future self. The most natural place to start.

Analysis: free · up to 500 words

The closer read. Beautiful phrases worth keeping, unfamiliar words, recurring symbols and themes you want to track across the book.

Character Maps: premium · up to 700 words

Characters, relationships, lineages, who-is-who. Especially useful for big casts and books where the structure itself carries the meaning.

Personal Connections: premium · up to 250 words

Where the book touches your own life: a memory it surfaced, another book it rhymes with, a date and place you want to anchor to the reading.

Chapter Summaries: premium · 200 words per chapter, 250 for the overall summary

A running log as you read. Add as many chapters as you like, name them, and write a short summary of each, plus one overall summary of the whole book. Unlike the other Ideas, this one is built for keeping pace with a book in progress.

Common questions

Q: What counts as a word? The counter colours amber as you near a limit and red at the edge. Pasting more than will fit trims to what's left rather than rejecting the whole paste.

Q: The editor doesn't autocapitalise. Is that a bug? No. Writing a Thought should feel like scribbling in a margin, hurried and unpolished, not like composing in a word processor. That's deliberate.

Q: I'm not much of a writer. Does this need to be good? No. Don't write to impress anyone; these are yours. Don't reach for sophisticated phrasing. Just put down the raw idea as it arrives in your head. Get it on the page first; you can make it good later, or never. Most people find that, without trying, they end up writing better here anyway.