Your first post, in about ten minutes of your time
Create a collection, add a headline, press Auto-Pen, review the result, publish.
The platform does the writing; your part is ten minutes spread across half an hour. Here's the whole path once.
1. Create a collection
Collections group posts that publish together. Open Collections in the header, press New collection, keep Start blank, and name it after the place the posts will go: "Company blog", "Field notes", whatever you'd call it yourself.
Already have a blog? Import an existing blog reads it from your sitemap or a connected CMS and builds the topic map and first headlines for you (KB-202).
2. Add a headline
Click the collection; it opens its post list. Choose New Post and type what you want to write about. A headline is enough ("Why remote work is here to stay"); a sentence or two of notes is better.
3. Press Auto-Pen
In the right-hand column of the editor, open Auto-Pen and press Start Auto-Pen. The step list above the button is live: untick a step and it's left out of this run only; the collection's saved sequence doesn't change.
The post locks while it's being written, and you can leave the page; it keeps going. You'll see three steps move along:
- Research: a few minutes. The platform reads the web on your headline and writes an outline into the post.
- Write: 15 to 20 minutes for a full-length piece. The writing kernel turns the outline into a draft.
- Enhance: a few minutes. Internal links, sources, visuals, and metadata are added.
4. Read it
When the steps finish, the draft is in the editor. Read it the way your audience would. You can edit anything directly, or press Run Auto-Pen again with a sharper headline.
Want one improvement again, say fresh visuals? The post's Enhance panel has a button for each guaranteed pass, such as Run visuals now (KB-303).
5. Publish
Open the Publish panel at the bottom of the right column and press Publish. That makes this the live version inside Letterstory. If a destination is connected (Webflow, Sanity, Contentful, Framer, Google Docs, or a GitHub repo), the panel says Publishing to Webflow (or whichever you connected) and the post goes there as well; for GitHub that means a pull request in your repo (KB-211).
That's the loop. Everything else in this knowledge base is a way to make it faster, more automatic, or more precisely yours.