Thoughts on writing, revision, and building tools that respect the craft. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Creating an account links your anonymous analytics identifier to it. Here's exactly what that means and what it doesn't. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/accounts-and-anonymous-analytics https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/accounts-and-anonymous-analytics Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quillium generates thousands of ways to corrupt a document, then checks whether the editor can put itself back together. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/we-tried-to-break-quillium https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/we-tried-to-break-quillium Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A drafting revolution https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-tabs https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-tabs Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scrivener is the gold standard for novel structure. But as writers spend more time revising than organizing, its limitations start to show. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/outgrow-scrivener https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/outgrow-scrivener Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quillium Omni is our upcoming sync and collaboration layer. The public waitlist is open now. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/introducing-omni https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/introducing-omni Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quillium is free because paywalling it would kill it. Here's the indie-dev math behind why that's true. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/free-isnt-generosity https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/free-isnt-generosity Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Scrivener understood that writing is about writing, not formatting. Quillium is the same, and doesn't cost anything. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/scrivener-but-free https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/scrivener-but-free Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Here's why those workarounds exist, and what a purpose-built tool looks like. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/notion-blocks-obsidian-callouts-scrivener-snapshots-sentence-variants https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/notion-blocks-obsidian-callouts-scrivener-snapshots-sentence-variants Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Word's Track Changes was built for corporate document approval, not for writers who actually revise. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/track-changes-is-not-revision https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/track-changes-is-not-revision Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Collaboration shouldn't mean compromise. Here's how we're designing Quillium Omni to give writers shared space without shared constraints. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/how-collaboration-should-work https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/how-collaboration-should-work Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Quillium is local-first by default. Here's what that means for your privacy. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-privacy https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-privacy Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every keystroke is saved. Every crash is caught. Here's how we approach robustness. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/how-quillium-keeps-your-writing-safe https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/how-quillium-keeps-your-writing-safe Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Because copy-pasting the same paragraph doesn't cut it anymore https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/inline-branching-for-prose https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/inline-branching-for-prose Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Huge thanks to our private beta testers! https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/public-beta https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/public-beta Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google Docs, AI writing tools, Git—the obvious alternatives already exist. Here's why none of them are actually doing what Quillium does. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/why-not https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/why-not Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most writing tools force linear thinking. A look at non-linear writing tools—and what's still missing at the prose level. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/writing-tools-that-support-non-linear-thinking https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/writing-tools-that-support-non-linear-thinking Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Undo/redo pretends to be a revision system. It's not. It's a stack — and stacks are the wrong data structure for writing. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/why-the-undo-button-is-a-lie https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/why-the-undo-button-is-a-lie Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writers lose drafts or drown in filenames. Version control for writing should work like Git, because drafts aren't enough. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/version-control-for-writing https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/version-control-for-writing Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT "Just finish the first draft" assumes writing is linear. It's not: the writing process is exploratory, and your tools should reflect that. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-first-draft https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/the-myth-of-the-first-draft Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT How AI hype swallowed the 'writing tool' category, and why Quillium's actual innovation keeps getting buried under it. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-is-not-an-ai-app https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/quillium-is-not-an-ai-app Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Writers juggle versions constantly. Here's why it's so hard to manage multiple drafts—and what a better system actually looks like. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/manage-multiple-drafts https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/manage-multiple-drafts Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why I built a non-linear prose editor. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/hello-world https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/hello-world Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT A survey of branching narrative writing software — what tools exist today, where they fall short, and what writers actually need. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/branching-narrative-writing-software https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/branching-narrative-writing-software Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Honest alternatives to Google Docs for writers who need more than a shared notepad. Scrivener, Ulysses, Notion, iA Writer, and a new approach. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/best-alternatives-to-google-docs-for-serious-writers https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/best-alternatives-to-google-docs-for-serious-writers Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT What AI in a writing tool should actually look like, and why Quillium's AI features are off by default. https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/ai-is-not-the-point https://quillium.bryanhu.com/blog/ai-is-not-the-point Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT