A surprising behavior of leaflets

Apps in the atproto ecosystem usually use existing atproto primitives for most problems. For example, user data is stored in the user's repository on their PDS. Surprisingly, most leaflets are not saved to the repo. As of Sep 29, 2025, when I checked using atproto-browser.dev , the only time I saw one of my authored leaflets in my repo was when:

1. the leaflet was part of a leaflet publication, and

2. the leaflet was published (ie. not a draft!)

I couldn't find other leaflets that are not in a leaflet publication or are still drafts in a publication. If this is intentional, perhaps it would be nicer for this behavior to be documented somewhere/made more obvious to me. I usually just assume that app data that feel like they belong to the user (me) are stored in my repo, so it was surprising when I couldn't find these "other" leaflets in the atproto browser.