Now dwell for all: Substack Notes
Right this moment we’re launching Notes to everybody. Notes is a brand new house the place you’ll be able to publish short-form posts and share concepts with different writers and readers on Substack.
Notes helps writers’ and creators’ work journey by way of the Substack community for brand new readers to find. You may share hyperlinks, pictures, fast ideas, and snippets from Substack posts. In addition to being light-weight and enjoyable, we hope that Notes will assist writers develop their viewers and income. Notes lives in a tab beside Inbox at substack.com and in Substack’s cellular apps. In contrast to an Inbox put up, a Notes put up doesn’t get despatched to subscribers by e-mail.
Notes additionally marks the following step in our efforts to construct our subscription community—one which places writers and readers in cost, rewards nice work with cash, and protects the free press and free speech. This work is on the core of the Substack mannequin, and we imagine it is going to be an vital a part of a new economic engine for culture. However what you see at the moment is only the start. Notes is a long-term undertaking, and success will in the end be decided by the belief expressed by writers and readers over the course of years. We don’t take that belief with no consideration.
This launch is an early model of the product that we’ve been testing with a small group of writers in latest weeks. We anticipate it to have bumps, bugs, and imperfections, and for it to evolve quickly in response to suggestions. If in case you have concepts, please tell us—ideally in Notes!
We expect that Notes can grow to be a robust driver of subscriptions. Traditionally, having worthy posts get shared broadly is among the main ways in which writers discover progress on Substack. Notes will help posts find a useful viewers of writers and readers who’re already invested within the Substack ecosystem and are only one click on away from a subscription.
Right here’s find out how to get began with Notes:
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Go to the Notes tab. Head to substack.com/notes or go to the brand new Notes tab within the Substack app.
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Put up your first notice. Say hiya to your fellow writers and subscribers, or share a wonderful piece of writing. Your notes can comprise easy textual content or far more, together with pictures, wealthy textual content, hyperlinks, and @mentions.
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Invite subscribers to affix the dialog. After you ship your first notice, you will notice a template to announce to your subscribers that you’re utilizing Notes. Ship them an e-mail or share a hyperlink to any of your notes on social media to get the phrase out.
In case you’re on the lookout for a technique to get began, bounce into our roll call.
Listed here are a couple of examples from the writers, illustrators, journalists, comics creators, and extra who helped us construct Notes:
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Suggest one other author’s work. Share posts, quotes, feedback, pictures, and hyperlinks. You should definitely @point out the writers when recommending their work.
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“Restack” a quote. Shine a highlight on the distinctive writing and concepts you encounter on Substack, all the way down to your favourite excerpts. (You may restack any put up or quote that’s on Substack.)
Head to substack.com/notes on the net or go to the brand new Notes tab within the Substack app.
In Notes you will notice two tabs: “House” and “Subscribed.”
The Subscribed tab exhibits notes and exercise from writers you will have subscribed to instantly.
The House tab exhibits notes from writers you’re subscribed to and writers they advocate, making up your prolonged community.
Have questions on how Notes works? Head to the Help Center or go to our Note FAQ.