§ Publishing·20 May 2026
Slate opens a front page
Claim a handle from account settings and your desk gains a public face at getslatedesk.com/u/<name> — a per-user front page that lists the notes you choose to publish, typography and all. The desk you read in private is now a page you can hand to someone.
Publishing is per-note and deliberate. Open a note, switch it on; the URL takes a slug from your title and stays the same forever after.
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20 May 2026
A year in review, in editorial column inches
A new /year-in-review page lays the year out at a glance — volume, the months you wrote in, the tags you returned to, the columns you filed under — and surfaces a handful of pieces worth resurfacing: the most-worked-on, the longest. Pick a year from the masthead; the recap is computed live from your notes, nothing precomputed.
20 May 2026
Save a morning edition to revisit later
A new Archived Editions page lets you freeze today’s desk — the notes you touched, the queue you have unread, the running totals — and read it back as it stood. A saved edition is essentially the morning email, kept on the shelf. Useful before a refactor of your own writing, before a year end, before a desk clean-out.
20 May 2026
A single note, set as if it were published
Any note can now be sent out into the world by itself, in Slate’s editorial typography, at a private link only you can hand around. Open a note, generate the link, copy it; revoke it and the page reads 404 for anyone who still has the URL. Search engines are asked to look the other way — private-by-default is still the rule of the house. The rest of your desk remains exactly where you left it.
20 May 2026
Sign in with a passkey
A passkey lives in your device — Touch ID, Face ID, Windows Hello, a hardware key — and signs you in without a password. Register one (or several — laptop and phone) from account settings; on the next visit, "Sign in with a passkey" sits beside the email and password form, and the email field offers your passkey as autofill on browsers that support it. Phishing-resistant by design, and your password keeps working in parallel.
20 May 2026
Two-factor sign-in for the desk
Turn on TOTP from account settings and the desk will ask for a six-digit code from your authenticator alongside your password — phishing-resistant by design. Eight recovery codes are minted at enrolment, shown exactly once; print them or stash them in a password manager. Disabling needs both the current password and a current code, so a stolen recovery list cannot remove the second factor.
20 May 2026
Where you are signed in, at a glance
A new Active Sessions panel in account settings lists every browser you are signed in on, with a one-click revoke beside each and a single "sign out everywhere else" button. The desk should know whose door is unlocked, and now you can see it.
20 May 2026
Bookmarks gain three new views
Read your reading queue the way it suits you. The bookmarks page now offers four selectable views — the original Top-of-Queue feed, a Newsstand of typographic tiles, an Editorial list of one-line rows, and a dense Card index table with bulk Mark-Read and Trash. Your pick sticks across sessions.
19 May 2026
A map of the threads, drawn from your own links
A new Graph page lays your notes out as a network — every wiki-link becomes an edge, every well-connected note becomes a larger node. Click to open; hover to isolate. Notes you have never linked to anything stay off the chart on purpose; the page is about the threads, not the inventory.
19 May 2026
The Library remembers how you like to read it
Filter the Library however you like — by tag, type, date, or any combination — and save the arrangement under a name. "Untagged ideas" or "Drafts older than 30 days" become single-click pills above the filter bar; click again to apply, × to remove. The shelf you keep going back to is now on the shelf itself.
19 May 2026
The desk turns its attention to your own writing
Ask the compose page for a handful of suggested tags — drawn from the tags you already use, so your taxonomy doesn't drift. The note editor's Related rail now reads with the same eye as search, so it surfaces pieces that share an argument even when they share no words. And on Sunday mornings the digest carries a short, italicised paragraph — the week, in passing — reflecting on what you wrote.
19 May 2026
The desk articulates its connections, and writes them in
Each surfaced connection now carries a one-line rationale — the desk’s own short answer to why these two notes belong together. Accept the connection and a See also reference is written into the older note, so the thread you confirmed survives outside the connections page, in the writing itself. The discovery pass runs nightly on its own.
17 May 2026
Articles behind a sign-in, summarized
The Slate browser extension now reads articles from your own authenticated tab and sends just the text to your desk — pages that used to defeat the summarizer (Medium and its kind) now go through. No scraping, no stored passwords.
17 May 2026
A page for every day
Slate’s morning-paper idea finally has a daily page. Every calendar day gets its own journal entry, created the moment you first open it and reachable by date — step from one day to the next without leaving the editor.