Thanks Al. A comment and a question if I may. Substack has built-in Categories (28 I believe), which are global across Substack - sadly, "Energy" is not one. You can of course set up your own - as you have laid-out in this post - and these appear to be called "Sections" and seem to function like local Categories.
After I set up new "Sections" I noticed that some subscribers were *not* receiving my posts as emails. When you post a new article you chose the "Section" you post it under. For some reason the default setting was to NOT associate new subscribers to my Section called Energy. I had to go back in manually and (1) turn on new subscribers subscribe to Energy and (2) there is a helpful toggle to apply to all subscribers (I can send you a screenshot by DM).
Now my question: is it possible to have subscribers subscribed to just one Section (or indeed any N discrete Sections) of my Substack. Or does everyone get every post? Ideally, I'd like the former. Would appreciate your 2 cents worth on this if possible! Thx
Thanks for that valuable link. Very interesting. I'm still trying to figure out some of the aspects of substack, and sharing the journey as I learn. Still a little confused about the difference between categories and sections. How do I find the 28 built-in categories? Are they also called "tags"?
Thanks for that valuable link. Very interesting. I'm still trying to figure out some of the aspects of substack, and sharing the journey as I learn. Still a little confused about the difference between categories and sections. How do I find the 28 built-in categories? Are they also called "tags"?
As for Tags... who knows? I assume these work in the same was as hashtags on any other platform, helping with search - but who searches SubStack? From a back-end point of view I'd guess that Tags and Sections (and indeed categories) are the same thing, only with Sections being usable as menu items on your homepage...
Thanks Al. A comment and a question if I may. Substack has built-in Categories (28 I believe), which are global across Substack - sadly, "Energy" is not one. You can of course set up your own - as you have laid-out in this post - and these appear to be called "Sections" and seem to function like local Categories.
After I set up new "Sections" I noticed that some subscribers were *not* receiving my posts as emails. When you post a new article you chose the "Section" you post it under. For some reason the default setting was to NOT associate new subscribers to my Section called Energy. I had to go back in manually and (1) turn on new subscribers subscribe to Energy and (2) there is a helpful toggle to apply to all subscribers (I can send you a screenshot by DM).
Now my question: is it possible to have subscribers subscribed to just one Section (or indeed any N discrete Sections) of my Substack. Or does everyone get every post? Ideally, I'd like the former. Would appreciate your 2 cents worth on this if possible! Thx
And I may have just found the answer here https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/8914938285204-How-do-I-subscribe-to-or-unsubscribe-from-a-section-on-Substack - Seems like the default is
1) New Subscribers get ALL Sections, but
2) Can subsequently exclude Sections they don't want
3) Existing subscribers can any Section created after they subscribed.
not ideal IMHO... but there it is.
Thanks for that valuable link. Very interesting. I'm still trying to figure out some of the aspects of substack, and sharing the journey as I learn. Still a little confused about the difference between categories and sections. How do I find the 28 built-in categories? Are they also called "tags"?
Thanks for that valuable link. Very interesting. I'm still trying to figure out some of the aspects of substack, and sharing the journey as I learn. Still a little confused about the difference between categories and sections. How do I find the 28 built-in categories? Are they also called "tags"?
Likewsie - learning... slowly... :-)
when you go to Settings- Basics you pick a primary and secondary Category for your stack... from their prepopulated list of 28...
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/360042221312-How-can-I-choose-a-leaderboard-category-for-my-Substack-publication
As for Tags... who knows? I assume these work in the same was as hashtags on any other platform, helping with search - but who searches SubStack? From a back-end point of view I'd guess that Tags and Sections (and indeed categories) are the same thing, only with Sections being usable as menu items on your homepage...
Good explanation!
Thanks.
I will have to save this one.