I haven’t done your workshop, Wes, but this is a genuinely inspiring post on building a Substack through Notes.
I also didn’t realise you run Notes challenges. I’m currently running one myself on Notes — a simple challenge to help people use a single topic to write and publish one Note a day for 21 days. So far, it’s just been one other person besides me who’s taken part.
I’m in the process of building one of four products I’ll be releasing in 2026, all focused on using Notes for Substack. I genuinely believe Notes are, in many ways, a far more powerful communication tool than most Substackers realise.
This is part of my broader plan for 2026, and a lot of what you’ve already shared — across other Notes and posts — has been genuinely inspiring as I’ve been formulating it.
Planned products:
– Noteit! - A quick-start guide to publishing Notes on Substack
– NotesOS - Templates and a publishing calendar for Notes
– NotesOS+ - Adding the benefits of audio and video publishing
– NotesWriter - A ghostwriting service for consistently well-crafted Notes
Great advice! Especially for us, new to writing.
Is this a workshop scheduled in real time or an online self directed course?
I haven’t done your workshop, Wes, but this is a genuinely inspiring post on building a Substack through Notes.
I also didn’t realise you run Notes challenges. I’m currently running one myself on Notes — a simple challenge to help people use a single topic to write and publish one Note a day for 21 days. So far, it’s just been one other person besides me who’s taken part.
I’m in the process of building one of four products I’ll be releasing in 2026, all focused on using Notes for Substack. I genuinely believe Notes are, in many ways, a far more powerful communication tool than most Substackers realise.
This is part of my broader plan for 2026, and a lot of what you’ve already shared — across other Notes and posts — has been genuinely inspiring as I’ve been formulating it.
Planned products:
– Noteit! - A quick-start guide to publishing Notes on Substack
– NotesOS - Templates and a publishing calendar for Notes
– NotesOS+ - Adding the benefits of audio and video publishing
– NotesWriter - A ghostwriting service for consistently well-crafted Notes
Thank you for sharing this, Wes. Can't wait to try some of this out.
I normally write notes as my short summaries of my articles. I will try to story-telling approach, even though it is not my strength.
I write a lot of notes. Some are public affairs commentaries, others are promos for my Stacks, which I usually post at least daily.
However, I am not crafting them as you suggest, making them all about me (if that fairly captures your advice).
I’ve wondered this about your content often. Thanks for sharing!