Blogging, the slow way

A quiet place
to write.

7ino is a home for personal blogs. No feed, no likes, no follower counts, no algorithm deciding who sees what. Just a page with your name on it, kept online for as long as you keep writing, and long after.

Read the blogs

New blogs are paused while we upgrade the backend. Existing blogs are not affected.

postaisLisboa feira da ladra This morning I went to the Feira da Ladra, behind São Vicente. 16 Sep 2012 off by oneBerlin hello again, world I set this site up in January 2019, wrote one post, and then nothing for two and a half years. 12 Jul 2021 lapsSydney 17,111 km to belfast Two months. I did say I'd think of something. Lachie came over this arvo with homework. 12 Mar 2017

Written from Berlin · Brno · Quito · Lisboa · Tromsø · Montréal · Tokyo · Göteborg · Sydney

Nothing to perform

There are no numbers under your posts. Nobody can like them, nobody can share them inside 7ino. People read them, or they don't. Most of our writers say that's the point.

An address that stays

Your blog lives at 7ino.com/yourname. We have never deleted a blog for being quiet. If you stop writing for three years, it's still there when you come back.

Looks like you

Every blog gets its own design. A typewriter journal, a postcard, a library card. Pick one, or describe what you want and we'll set it up with you.

Plain text, forever

Posts are stored as plain text files and published as simple pages. They load on old phones and slow connections, and you can export everything in one click.

How it works

  1. Pick a name. One word, lowercase. It becomes your address.
  2. Write. In the editor, by email, or from your phone. Posts go live with the time you saved them.
  3. That's it. There is no step three. We don't have growth tips.

On 7ino

9 blogs, 315 posts. Sorted by most recently updated.

Berlin off by one notes, mostly “I set this site up in January 2019, wrote one post, and then nothing for two and a half years.” 67 posts · 2019–2023 · updated Jun 2023 Tokyo madori six tatami mats in Oji, 46,000 yen “Two and a half years later. Hello again. Daisuke and I are splitting up. It's fine, mostly.” 28 posts · 2016–2020 · updated Jan 2020 Tromsø mørketid counting down to the sun · Tromsø, winter 2018 “Right. The website gets a job. I'm in Tromsø until the first of February, to finish translating a novel called Mørketid.” 30 posts · 2018–2019 · updated Nov 2019 Quito mitad looking for the middle of the world “Sunday, Father's Day, so my present was to drive.” 33 posts · 2018–2019 · updated Sep 2019 Göteborg spegel one self-portrait a week, from the hall mirror “Eight months later. Hi again, server. I moved to Göteborg yesterday.” 30 posts · 2018–2019 · updated Aug 2019 Montréal sleeptalk what the phone heard “I made this in March 2017, wrote one post and forgot it existed. The domain renewed itself twice.” 28 posts · 2017–2019 · updated Jul 2019 Sydney laps Bronte to Belfast, thirty metres at a time “Two months. I did say I'd think of something. Lachie came over this arvo with homework.” 25 posts · 2017–2019 · updated May 2019 Brno kundera eleven books, one year “A plan, so I have something to hold on to. This year I will read all of Milan Kundera's novels, in order.” 41 posts · 2016–2018 · updated Apr 2018 Lisboa postais postcards from lisbon, for avó “This morning I went to the Feira da Ladra, behind São Vicente.” 33 posts · 2012–2014 · updated Jan 2014
“I write here in English to keep my English awake. My daughter made me do it.”

Marta, kundera, Brno

One plan

No tiers, no "pro", no add-ons. One price for everyone, the same since 2014.

We would rather have a few thousand writers who stay for ten years than a million who leave after a week. Most of our blogs are older than the phones they were started on.

€3 a month

or €30 a year. Your first 30 posts are free.

  • Your own address and design
  • Unlimited posts, pages and images
  • Export everything, any time
  • No ads, no tracking, ever

Questions

Why are new blogs paused?

We're moving everything to a new backend. Existing blogs stay online and unchanged during the upgrade. New sign-ups will reopen when it's finished.

Is there a feed or a timeline?

No. You can read a blog from its first post to its last, like a book, or start wherever you like.

Can people comment?

No. If someone wants to answer you, they'll find a way. They usually do.

What happens to my blog if I stop writing?

Nothing. It stays exactly where you left it.

Can I write in any language?

Yes. Many of our writers mix two or three.