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Create culture together! Ellipsus is an easy-to-use collaborative writing tool made by writers, for writers.

Us 👉 ellipsus.com

Our stance on AI 👉 https://ellipsus.com/generative-ai

Support 👉 [email protected]

Status 👉 https://status.ellipsus.com
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It’s coming... ThemeThursday! Four versions of the future we were promised (+ the one we’re writing ourselves).

⛓️‍💥 Wasteland - the poetry of ruin.
🫧 Aero - a shiny glint of optimism.
💾 Retrograde - the computer room, and one overly helpful paperclip.
❤️ Kudos - iykyk.

Check em out next week!
November 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Hey team, a routine upgrade broke the Ellipsus client for a short period. Things should be up and running again after a refresh. Please reach out in the support form if things are amiss.

Apologies for interrupting the flow!
Dyatlov Chernobyl
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Early signs of life—our team is able to log into the app. Can you all check yours?
October 20, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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We're back online. Thank you for your patience and apologies for interrupting the flow. Write on 🫡

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October 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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New feature alert… Invite by Link!

You can now create a link with a specific role (like Can View, Can Comment, Can Edit, etc.) and share it anywhere - no email input required!
October 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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🍂 It’s Theme Thursday... October edition!!

Maple: golden-hour sun shining through leaves 🍁

Pumpkin Spice: autumn dusk, novels thick enough to get lost in 🎃

Wicked Fog: spellcraft and séances, smoke curling from cauldrons 🔮

Fig Espresso: dark roast, old books, plotting by candlelight ☕️
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Hey hey Ellipsus fam!

We added 10 brand new fonts to Ellipsus for ✨Font Friday✨ - with vibes cool and unusual, cute, clean, romantic, redacted, pretty, futuristic, and more! ⌨️

Try them out and let us know which ones are your faves!
September 27, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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It’s that time again... new themes just dropped in Ellipsus! 🎨

This #ThemeThursday, we're serving:

🌅 Afterglow
🧈 Custard
☢️ Radioactive
🌸 Petal

They're live in the tool right now! Go give your doc a glow-up. 💅🖌️
September 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Theme Thursday is live!

This week, we have:

Lilium - a midnight garden 🥀
Love Letter - a secret romance 💌
Cinéma Vérité - greyscale shadowplay 🌫️
Cotton Candy - dreamcore pastels 🍬

Find them all in the themes picker - and let us know what you think!
August 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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#ThemeThursday is almost here! This week, it's all about light and shadow (and waxing poetic in full color):

A garden in midnight bloom
Bright, fluffy daydreams
Stolen glances and unsent confessions
A wash of ink and celluloid.

Four new themes drop in Ellipsus this Thursday. See you then! 🎨 👀
August 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Note: Setting a password will log you out of your Ellipsus sessions. You’ll need to log back in on each device—but no worries, your work will be saved automatically. 🔒

To set your password, just head to your Settings page. That’s it! ✨
August 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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You can now set a password for your Ellipsus account—no more digging for login codes in your inbox every time you sign in.

Code login is still around if you prefer it, but this update makes it way faster (and easier!) to jump back into your writing. Set whatever weird password your heart desires.
August 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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August 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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We’ve seen a number of writers sharing stories about suddenly losing access to their Google Docs today.
July 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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✨ New in Ellipsus...

You asked (nicely, persistently!) - we listened...

And after a little reshuffling behind the scenes, we’re stoked to bring you one of our most requested features: Highlighter colors are here!

Color-code the chaos, flag what needs fixing - whatever works for your brain! xo
An image showing the Ellipsus text editor with highlight colors.
July 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Looking to #degoogle, but don't know where to start?

We've updated our list of up-and-coming alternatives over on the blog: ellips.us/4gIabn4.
Header: Note-taking alternatives to Google Keep - Joplin (joplinapp.org), based in France, Paid - Standard Notes (standardnotes.com), based in the US, Free + Paid Header: Photo storage alternatives to Google Keep - Ente (ente.io), based in the US, Free + Paid - Immich (immich.com), based in the US, Free + Paid - Filen (filen.io), based in Germany, Free + Paid - Zeitkapsl (zeitkapsl.eu), based in Austria, Paid Header: Search engine alternatives - Startpage (startpage.com), based in the Netherlands, Free - Ecosia (ecosia.org), based in Germany, Free - Kagi (kagi.com), based in the US, Free + Paid
June 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Know a notebook, laptop, or bathroom stall that could use a good zhuzhing? (It’s not vandalism if it’s ✨aesthetic✨)

We’ve got just the thing: merch.ellipsus.com

50% of proceeds this month will go to
@trevorproject.bsky.social, @aclu.org, and @translifeline.org. 🌈
The headline is "write it, stick it, share it." There are 8 stickers on screen: 1. A pen surrounded by the phrase "resistance starts with words" 2. A jar of pens with the Ellipsus logo 3. A book with "Queer futures" on the cover 4. The Ellipsus logo 5. A pen with a rainbow swirl 6. The phrase "FCK GPT" 7. A typewriter with the phrase "This machine kills fascists" 8. A rocket ship
June 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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So, here’s our first little offering: a fancy schmancy Pride theme! 🎉

There’s much more to come, so stay tuned all month long!
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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We don’t just celebrate Pride in June—we live it every day. As a queer-founded company building a space for our very, very gay (🙌) creative community, we know how much this month matters.
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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May 6, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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For fanfiction writers, it can feel like generative AI is closing in on all sides. #AO3 has been scraped multiple(!) times, readers are using AI to finish authors’ fics …

But isn’t *writing* the whole point? The incomparable @elizabethminkel.bsky.social shares her take:

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A sinister Hugging Face emoji waggles its eyebrows over an abstract word cloud with falling papers and AO3 logos.
May 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Writing a 100k slow burn and they still haven’t made eye contact? 🙈

Planning a fix-it fic with world-altering consequences? 😵‍💫

We have 3 new templates to help you wrangle those canon-bending storylines. ellips.us/3Gk3dbo
Slow Burns, Fix-Its, and AUs: 
Templates for Fanfic AU planning template What can you explore in this particular context/setting? What stays the same, even if the details change? How does the new context/setting reframe the characters’ emotional struggles? Fandom ship template Who’s best at reading between the lines? What’s the moment they almost say something—but don’t? What’s the line of dialogue that defines their relationship? Canon Divergence Template Are the rules (e.g., rules of magic, politics, science, society) altered? How? How will you maintain believability with these changes? What emotional beats are you preserving—and which are you changing?
April 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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If you’re a visual thinker, a fan of fan art, or want to keep a map/reference pic handy, you'll love our latest update. ✨ 🖼️

Illustrations, inspo, cursed memes—now you can upload them all (or any other image) to your docs and drafts.
April 9, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Where does your story begin? What’s holding it together? And what is it really trying to say?

Ideas are easy—stories are a lot harder. That’s why we just dropped four new templates to help you turn sparks into structure, tension, themes, and meaning.

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Story opener template: Does your first line make the reader ask a question?  What does your character’s body language, inner thoughts, or dialogue tell us about them? Do any details foreshadow later conflicts, or your character’s overall arc? Scene Builder Template Setting: How does this location affect the characters? What is this scene’s balance of dialogue, internal thoughts, and action? How does this scene shape the reader’s perception of the characters? Themes and Symbolism Template Do any characters reflect different sides of the thematic conflict? If your story could be summarized with a thematic question, what would it be? Does a character face major decisions or actions that define the theme? Conflicts, Stakes, and Tension Template Will your characters lose something they love? How does conflict affect the culture, society, or history of your setting? How does the conflict push a character toward growth or adversity?
March 25, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Creating complex, real characters means going a few layers beneath the surface ... and that's where character development templates come in!

We’re releasing 3 new templates to help you discover your characters' emotional arcs, relationships, and backstories.

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Character Arc Planning Template - Will this character change by the end—or will they resist change? - Is their growth tied to internal struggles, external conflicts/forces, or both? - What lie(s) does this character believe about themselves or the world? - What truth(s) must they accept in order to grow? Character Relationship Template - How do they express care or frustration? (Do they show love, friendship, etc. through words, actions, sacrifices, etc.?) - What unspoken things exist between them? (Secrets, past betrayals, feelings left unsaid.) - How do they change around each other? (Do they become braver, softer, angrier, more reckless?) Character Emotional Wound Template - When someone unknowingly (or explicitly) reminds them of a traumatic event, how do they react? - Who or what helps them process emotions? (Or do they deal with them alone?) - Is there an object or symbol that holds emotional weight for them? - Is there a place they avoid? (A childhood home, a battlefield, a particular city.)
March 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM