Getting started
What is SkyScribe?
SkyScribe is three things that work together. Understanding which is which makes the rest of this guide much easier to follow.
1. The authoring app
The app at skyscribe.app is where you write and organise your content. You compose long-form writing in a rich text editor, group it into sections, manage a shared image library, and invite other people to write alongside you.
Everything you create is saved to your own Bluesky account — specifically, to your account's Personal Data Server (PDS). SkyScribe never holds the only copy.
2. SkyScribe Sites
A SkyScribe Site is a hosted blog that SkyScribe builds and runs for you.
You pick a template, colours, and fonts in a design wizard, connect it to your
content, and it goes live at your-name.skyscribe.site. No code, no servers to
manage.
SkyScribe Sites are part of the paid PRO subscription.
3. The SkyScribe SDK
The SkyScribe SDK is a set of free, open-source code packages for developers. Instead of using a SkyScribe Site, a developer can show your published content on an SDK-driven website: one they build themselves with the SDK, not via the site design wizard, and style however they like. This route needs coding. If that's you, the SkyScribe SDK docs cover it.
The through-line: your content is portable
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ You write in the │
│ SkyScribe app │
└───────────┬─────────────┘
│ saved to
▼
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ Your Bluesky account │ ← the single source of truth
│ (your PDS) │
└─────┬───────────────┬───┘
│ │
read by ▼ ▼ read by
┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────────┐
│ SkyScribe │ │ An SDK-driven │
│ Site │ │ website │
└──────────────┘ └──────────────────┘
A hosted SkyScribe Site and an SDK-driven website are just two different readers of the same content. You can run both at once, switch from one to the other later, or use neither and still keep everything you have written.
Next
Core concepts introduces the handful of terms — Publication, Document, Category, Builder Site — that the rest of this guide relies on.