Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
plume, the private novel-writing app
A macOS and Windows writing app that keeps your manuscript on your computer, with chapters and scenes arranged in a focused desktop editor.
Why it surfacedplume makes a clear promise to novelists: write offline, without an account or subscription, while keeping the manuscript on disk. The editor remains free for life, while optional writing assistance costs €149 once; the openly labeled 0.1 trial makes this a particularly good early-stage callback.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.