The quiet hours.
Notifications on your schedule, not the sender’s. Everything arrives at once, like a paper on the doorstep.
The pile, as it should be: patient.
Every newsletter you subscribe to has a send time, and none of them consulted you about it. Twelve publications is twelve interruptions scattered across a week, each one arriving at whatever hour suited the writer’s scheduler. Paperstand takes that decision back.
Pick an hour. That is the whole feature.
Set a reading hour and Paperstand holds everything that arrives until then, delivering it in one go — a single notification, or none at all if you would rather just find it waiting. Issues are never delayed on your stand; they are there the moment they land. It is only the tap on the shoulder that waits.
Per subscription, when you want it
One publication genuinely is time-sensitive, and the rest are not. Each subscription can keep its own arrangement, so the daily market letter can reach you at seven while the long Sunday essay waits for Sunday.
- A reading hour for the whole stand, set once.
- An override per subscription, for the two or three that earn it.
- A quiet mode that delivers silently and notifies nothing at all.
What we did not build
No streak counter, no reminder that you have not opened the app in four days, no gentle nudge dressed up as a summary. A product that solves interruption by inventing a new interruption has not solved anything. If you do not come back for a fortnight, your stand will simply be there, thicker than you left it.
Quiet hours apply to notifications only. Ingestion, parsing and storage run when the mail arrives, exactly as before.