750 Words V2
NOTES / What's new with V2?

  • What is this? I’ll keep it super simple and just keep this doc updated with the latest changes and news and thoughts happening as V2 is being built. Feel free to add comments or questions.

Latest updates: 

  • Improved the dark theme for writing words, and added a new lower contrast dark theme. Go to Account > Edit Preferences to switch them on or off.
  • Added a page for badges.
  • Added a button to write a note of inspiration to the writer’s page if you’ve earned a badge in the last month.
  • Added a ❤️ button to notes of inspiration
  • You can now tab in the entry writing composer thing, and hitting shift-return will create a newline without the extra spacing of a new paragraph. 
  • December:
  • Added an unsubscribe link to the daily nudge email
  • Fixed the pie charts on the stats page that were sometimes backwards
  • Added a link to search your entries on V1 (from the search results page) if you’ve linked accounts
  • Updated profile pages so the CURRENT BADGES section shows up-to-date and precise stats instead of the generic badge description
  • Added testimonials to the daily nudge, if any exist from the last 7 days. 
  • November:
  • Added new.750words.com now that we’re moving out of the super early adopters enter at your own risk stage of things.
  • Added badges for the Epic Trilogy (500k words written) and NaNoWriMo (writing 50k words in a month).
  • Added current badges to the post-login screen. Let us know if you like it or not!
  • Invited a bunch of new people because V1 was down for a day. Welcome!
  • October:
  • There’s now a ✏️ icon on metadata pages that allows you to fix typos, and archive metadata that you don’t mean to create.
  • September:
  • Working on upgrading Tiptap, which is the framework I’m using for the composer (the thing you type in that formats text and allows some formatting. 
  • Fixed entries to properly display all international characters.
  • July: 
  • Playing around with a “word of the day” on the post-login page.
  • Added a way to resend email confirmations (finally!)
  • Fixed the problem with the dark theme getting reset after logging out
  • Added “mindset” to the entry stats page, and labels to the charts
  • Added a banner for when your “Free trial” is running out
  • Changed the subject line of daily nudge emails when you’ve already completed your writing
  • Fixed the “Cheat Days” feature so it actually opens now
  • June:
  • You can browse months from profile pages, and see your streak by hovering over days.
  • Re-arranging some of the archive pages to make them (hopefully) a bit more intuitive.
  • Profiles will now indicate if they’re a V1 or V2 member. 
  • March: 
  • Added a search box to the account page.
  • Added an export button to the monthly entry page.
  • Added links to metadata on the entry stats page to list all other entries that used that metadata.
  • Added a “protect your streak” option to the account page that will patch your streak for one missed day. Also hinting at future features around scheduling days off and vacation days.
  • Added writing streak to the compose page so you can get a better idea of how many days you’ve written in a row as motivation.
  • Added 2 new badges, the Novella and Book badges for 10K and 50K words written, respectively. 
  • February: