How Chronicle works

Everything the editorial process demands. Nothing it doesn't.

Chronicle is built from the tools that matter — a writer's compositor, an editor's workflow layer, and a publisher's reader relationship system.

Writing

A compositor, not just a text box

The Chronicle editor treats your prose with the same care a print compositor would — correct optical sizing, proper typographic hierarchy, and a clean reading width enforced by the spec.

  • Libre Baskerville heading register automatically applied in preview
  • Soft wrap at 75ch — the proven editorial max-width
  • Block types: pull-quote, aside, data-table, embed
Analytics

Reader signals, not vanity metrics

Chronicle surfaces what a publisher actually needs: depth of reading, subscriber-to-paid conversion curve, and post-level churn attribution — set in a type system that makes data legible.

  • Read-depth per post — scroll depth mapped to paragraph
  • Subscriber conversion funnel, cohort-by-cohort
  • Churn reasons via exit survey, auto-aggregated
Distribution

Email, web, and RSS — one publish action

Publish once to all channels. Chronicle handles plain-text email rendering, web delivery, and RSS with a single action — no duplicate drafts, no format juggling.

  • Beautiful plain-text email with correct hierarchy
  • Canonical web URL with open-graph meta automatically set
  • RSS feed with full-text content