Getting started

Write a line, then another

An outline is a list of lines. Type one, press Enter, and you have the next. Press Tab to tuck a line underneath the one above it, and Shift + Tab to pull it back out. A flat list becomes a document with a shape, one keystroke at a time.

Fold what you are not working on

A line with something underneath it has a triangle beside its bullet. Click it to fold that section away and click again to open it. Folding is remembered in your browser, so an outline you use every day opens the way you left it.

Open one bullet as the whole page

Click a bullet itself, rather than its triangle, to zoom into it. That line becomes the heading and its children become the outline. It is the same document seen from further in, and the trail across the top is how you get back out.

Where your writing actually lives

Every bullet is a record in your own account on the AT Protocol network, not a row in a database belonging to Bulleted. You can read it with other software, take it somewhere else, or keep it after you stop using this. What that means in practice is on the AT Protocol page.

What Bulleted does not do

Two people cannot edit the same bullet at the same time, and that is structural rather than unfinished: every line has exactly one owner and one writer. Sharing works the other way round, with mirrors.

There is no native mobile app and nothing works offline. The site runs in a phone browser.

Bulleted is an outliner rather than a word processor. It is a good place to work out what you think and what order it goes in; the finished writing is often better off somewhere else.