Substack Notes
A new way for writers to share their thoughts.
Substack Notes launched on April 5, 2023 with 136 votes, #297 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Substack Notes is a short-form content feature that allows writers on Substack to share thoughts and ideas with readers and other writers. Available to all Substack users as of April 2023, Notes functions as a discovery tool within the Substack network, helping writers find and connect with each other's content. It is designed for writers and readers who use the Substack publishing platform.
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From the sources
In Notes, writers will be able to post short-form content and share ideas with each other and their readers. Like the Recommendations feature, Notes is designed to drive discovery across Substack.
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As of April 11, 2023, Notes is available to all writers and readers on Substack. Visit Notes . We started Substack in 2017 because we wanted the internet to be better for writers and readers. We were dismayed with the clickbait and content farms, the listicles and liars, the cheap outrage and culture wars. We thought there could be something better if writers and readers were given more control and treated as a higher priority than advertisers, and if culture makers could find financial dignity without needing to sublimate themselves to attention games and corporate marketing budgets. “We believe that what you read matters,” we said , and we meant it. So we set about building a system that…from on.substack.com
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