Your Keepsake Page — Publish Notes Publicly
Your Keepsake Page is a simple, personal space at keepsake.place/@yourname where you can publish selected notes to the public. It's not a blog, not a social network — just a quiet corner of the web to share the thoughts, essays, or photos you feel are worth sharing. Everything else stays private. You decide, one note at a time. Want to see one in action? Have a look at Nicolas's Keepsake Page.
What is a Keepsake Page?
A personal URL
Your page lives at keepsake.place/@yourname. Each published note also has its own shareable URL at keepsake.place/@yourname/slug.
Private by default
Nothing is published automatically. Every note stays private until you click the globe icon and confirm. Unpublishing is always one click away.
Part of your workflow
You don't write separate blog posts — you publish notes you already have. The same notes that live in your Inbox, Archive, or on a contact's page can become public in one click.
Tip
A Keepsake Page is ideal for people who want a quiet corner of the web without the pressure of running a blog or posting on social media. Publish when you have something to share — and only then.
Set up your username and page
Open Settings
From the sidebar, go to Settings. Scroll to the Keepsake Page section.
Choose a username
Type a username in the field. Allowed characters: lowercase letters, numbers, hyphens, and underscores. Length: 3 to 30 characters. Availability is checked in real time as you type — green means it's yours.
Confirm and save
Once you save, your page is live at keepsake.place/@yourname, even if you haven't published any note yet. Visitors will see a simple profile with your name and bio.
Tip
Choose a username you'll still be happy with in a few years. It's the foundation of every public URL you'll ever share from Keepsake.
Add your bio and links
Public display name
Optional. If you want your public page to use a different name than the one on your Keepsake account (for example, a pen name or just a first name), set it here. Leave it empty to use your account name.
Write a short bio
One sentence is enough. What do you do, what do you share, what do you care about? Keep it simple — this is a page, not a résumé.
Add links
Add as many links as you want: personal site, Twitter / X, Instagram, LinkedIn, a podcast, a book you wrote. Each link has a label (e.g. Website) and a URL. Reorder them by drag and drop.
Tip
If you also have a blog, link to it. Your Keepsake Page isn't a replacement for a full blog — it's a companion space for shorter notes and ideas you want to make public without the overhead of a CMS.
Customize the appearance of your page
Pick a theme
Three themes to choose from. Ivory is warm and light (the default). Paper is a cool neutral with a slightly different ink. Night is a warm dark — a deep blue-brown, not a pure inversion — designed to stay legible and calm. Mini previews show how each looks before you commit.
Pick an accent color
Four accents: Terre de Sienne (the default, a muted red-brown), Prussian Blue, Sage Green, or Ink (near-ink, a very quiet accent). The accent colors the opening mark of your quotes, hover states on links, the heart in the footer, and text selection.
Drop cap on or off
The drop cap is the large decorative first letter at the beginning of your written notes. On by default. Turn it off if your notes read more like technical captures than long prose.
Page language
Pick French or English for the page. This controls the labels your visitors see: dates ("13 APRIL 2026" vs. "13 AVRIL 2026"), kind tags ("WRITING / QUOTE / PHOTOGRAPH" vs. "ÉCRIT / CITATION / PHOTOGRAPHIE"), and the colophon. Independent from your app language.
Contact email (optional)
Add an email address if you'd like a Contact button to appear in your page header. Visitors who click it will be taken to their email client with your address pre-filled. Leave the field empty to hide the button entirely — it's opt-in, nothing is ever exposed unless you fill this in.
Tip
Try the Night + Sage Green combo for something calm and editorial at night, or Paper + Prussian Blue for a more classical, magazine feel. You can change your theme and accent whenever you want. See a live example →
Publish a note
Find the globe icon
The globe icon is visible on every note: in the Inbox, on archived notes, on pinned notes, and on the note detail page. On small cards it sits next to the pin and menu icons.
Click to publish
A confirmation modal appears: "Publish this note? It will be visible at keepsake.place/@you/slug." This is your last chance to cancel — nothing goes live until you confirm.
The note stays where it is
Publishing is a pure toggle — the note doesn't move. If it was in your Inbox, it stays in the Inbox (with the globe icon lit up). If it was archived or pinned, it stays there. You decide separately when (or if) to archive it. Unpublishing is just as simple: click the globe again, right where the note lives.
A public URL is generated
Each published note gets its own URL: keepsake.place/@yourname/slug. The slug is generated from the first words of your note. Share this link anywhere — it's a permanent page for that single note.
Tip
Once a note is published, the globe icon stays lit on the note card — a visible reminder that this content is public. Glance at your notes and you always know what's visible to the world.
Edit or unpublish a note
Edit after publishing
Open the note and edit it like any other note. Changes propagate to your public page within about 10 seconds (a short cache). Photos, tags, Markdown formatting — everything updates.
Unpublish in one click — from anywhere
Click the globe icon again on a published note. You have three ways to reach it: (1) on the note card itself (in Inbox, Notes, or wherever it lives); (2) inside the note editor in focus mode (globe icon in the header); (3) from your public page, click the pencil icon above a published note — it takes you back to the note in the app, where the globe is ready to toggle. A confirmation modal appears; confirm, and the note is removed from your public page. The note itself stays in your Keepsake account, private again.
Re-publish later
Changed your mind? Click the globe icon once more to republish. You'll get a new URL — the old one doesn't come back.
Tip
If you want to make a small correction without waiting for the cache, just refresh the public page a few seconds later. For most visitors, changes appear almost immediately.
Find all your published notes
Open Notes
From the sidebar on desktop, click Notes. On mobile, tap Notes in the bottom bar. You'll see all your processed notes.
Filter on 'Published'
Use the Published filter at the top of the page. The list narrows down to just the notes currently visible on your Keepsake Page.
Review, edit, or unpublish
From there you can open any public note, edit it, or unpublish it. It's a good weekly ritual — scan what's public, tidy up what's no longer relevant.
Tip
Quick access to your page: a globe icon sits next to the Keepsake logo (desktop sidebar) and in the top bar (mobile, next to the search). Click to open your public page in a new tab; right-click or long-press to copy the link.
Collect email subscribers
Zero setup, on by default
The subscribe form is already on your page — no configuration needed. Cadence defaults to weekly. Turn it off in Settings if you don't want subscribers (yet).
You choose the cadence
Weekly (Monday morning), daily (when you publish), or off. No publication on the period = no email sent. Switch anytime — your subscribers don't see your settings.
Replies go to your contact email
When subscribers reply to your letter, the response lands in the Contact email you configured for your page. Set one up to actually have conversations.
Tip
A small list of engaged subscribers is worth more than a big list of half-interested ones. Read the full guide →
Tips and good practices
Publish what you stand behind
QuickNotes are for raw capture. Published notes are for finished thoughts — or at least thoughts you're comfortable sharing. Take a minute to reread before clicking the globe.
Good candidates to publish
Short essays, photo posts (see Adding photos to notes), book recommendations, quotes you love, rules you live by, project updates. Anything you'd send to a friend in an email, you can probably publish.
Keep your username stable
Changing your username later breaks every shared URL. If you’re tempted to rename, think twice — especially if you've already shared links elsewhere.
Your readers don't need an account
Anyone on the web can read your page. No sign-up, no paywall, no tracking of who visits. Just a quiet, readable page.
Tip
Treat your Keepsake Page like a garden, not a feed. Publish slowly, edit freely, weed out what no longer fits. There's no pressure to post regularly — a page with five great notes is better than one with fifty forgettable ones.
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