Skywriter Turns Bluesky Topics Into “articles” for Easy Reading
I’ve never enjoyed reading long threads on Twitter (the same goes for X), and I don’t think any of its successors have done a particularly good job of making them easier to read. Since Bluesky is the preferred place for X-pats , I read several long threads there, and after I came across several threads with more than 10 posts, I started looking for a tool that would make tracking easier. That’s when I came across Skywriter , a utility that takes long topics and converts them into article format.
Skywriter turns Bluesky topics into articles
Next time you come across a long thread on Bluesky, leave a link to the first post on the Skywriter website and it will turn the entire thread into an article for you. Or better yet, just tag @unroll.skywriter.blue in the replies and use the word “unroll” without quotes in your post. You don’t need to create an account with Skywriter, but if you do, you can keep a list of all the topics you’ve saved. (However, you can achieve the same thing by storing the URLs of the pages Skywriter generates, so there’s no need to create an account at this point.) This tool is very similar to the excellent Thread Reader bot , which converts Twitter threads into articles.
Skywriter gets the job done quite quickly and the web page it produces is easy to read. It will even match your device’s current theme – if you use dark mode, your Skywriter article will also use dark mode. On the webpage, you can see the author’s profile picture, Bluesky username, and display name. Below is the number of likes the post received, a link to the original thread, and a button to save it to your Skywriter account. You can see a sample of a Bluesky post turned into a Skywriter article here . (If you’re interested in the original, follow this link .)
In some threads on Bluesky, I couldn’t see individual posts because they contained keywords that I had disabled. Skywriter was able to find and save even these messages, allowing me to read the entire thread. I disabled these keywords to avoid reactions, but in the context of a deep and long thread, I really wanted to see these posts. Skywriter fills that gap and allows me to read what interests me, even if those posts are hidden in my Bluesky feed.
Skywriter is not perfect
My only complaint is that Skywriter is quite literal in its purpose. Quite often, the thread creator is forced to stop the message mid-sentence or add numbers at the end of each message. When you read this on Bluesky, it makes sense because each post is limited to 300 characters. On the Skywriter website these spaces look rather strange. It starts each message with a new paragraph, and thanks to its literalization, you’ll see paragraphs starting in the middle of a sentence or numbers appearing between messages.
This isn’t Skywriter’s fault per se, because its goal is to make posts easier to read without changing the original content, but sometimes it makes for a less than ideal reading experience. Otherwise, it does a great job of loading text and media content in the right places and is a useful tool to add to your Bluesky collection .