Yesterday, I upgraded this site to SimpleLog 1.1—a process that's remarkably simple (no pun intended) and works really well. It's amazing to see how many little changes I made between the two versions and just how much more efficient the app is now. Especially when writing posts.
For instance, if you compare the post form from 1.0 with the post form from 1.1, you'll see that 1.1 definitely drives more toward the app being all about writing and less about the clunky details of maintaining a weblog (note that the content preview is still there in 1.1, it just isn't showing because there's no content yet in that post). Then, of course, if you look at the post form from 1.1 fully expanded, you'll see that all of the options you want are there, they're just hidden by default to make you focus a bit more.
The difference between the two designs already feels significant to me. Writing this post seemed easier without all the static.
We're in release candidate testing of version 1.1, and it should be released to the public next week. Shortly after release, I'm going to set up Trac and SVN publicly so people can track changes from this point on.