Fika November Update

In Fika, we’re determined in our mission to help you write more and connect with other humans. Here’s what we’ve been carefully packing for you these last few weeks!

Fika went multilingual!

You can now customize the language of Fika’s interface to your liking. We’ve started with just a few (we’re a small team!) but please let us know if you miss yours 💚.

We also got localized versions of our public pages, like https://fika.bar/ca or https://fika.bar/pt.

New “subscribe” block

You can now place a block anywhere in the page to ask your readers to become subscribers when it best suits you. Exactly… Like this! ⬇︎

Note: You might not see the feature if reading from your e-mail.

Of course, the subscribe experience will be tailored to your blog’s language, which, by the way, you can also set separately from the interface language in your blog’s settings.

Voice notes & bookmarks

Writing is a non-linear experience. Ideas might pop up into your mind while walking, doing the laudry, or while reading an article. Well, now you can capture them on the go via our new “Notes” feature.

Voice notes will get digested by Fika, and it’ll automatically extract insights and generate post ideas to nudge you into writing. Please try it out, it’s fun!

Visual improvements on the editor

The editor is where you’ll hopefully spend more time in Fika. We noticed it wasn’t cool enough, so we’ve reworked most of its interface to declutter it and make it easier for you to concentrate. We’ve also added a sidebar where you’ll be able to search your notes, and where you’ll see neat new features coming up Soon Enough ™.

Other improvements

We noticed some stability issues, and that’s not cool. So we’re also working hard on completely revamping Fika’s internals for you to have a best-in-class writing experience. If you experienced some issues, we hear you. Please bear with us while we fix them!

What’s next?

Choices, choices. We have so many ideas we can’t wait to deliver, including:

• Grammar correction and writing advice: Human content means human mistakes. We want to help you become better at writing by providing writing advice and grammar correction — without taking the pen from your hands.

• Social publishing: A way to streamline social publishing so you spend less time thinking about distribution channels and more time writing.

• Voice dictation: For those who are able to write articles in real time in their minds.

• Multi-language content: Why limiting your audience to a single language? We’re looking into ways to make your content more universally accessible to readers anywhere and everywhere.

• Custom domains and whitelabeling: For those who want the fika experience in their own awesome domain name.

Phew, that was a lot, wasn’t it? Thanks for reading, and if you’re looking for your opportunity to start writing, remember we have a Writing Challenge going on!