Sarah, this is something that I need, but part of your side screen is cropped so I didn’t quite see how to organize my posts in groups after I tagged them!!
If you had not explained this to me in detail, I would otherwise have had no idea what the difference was between groups or sections, let alone how to set them up. Thank you, team (shout out to your assistant) WAW.
This was so useful. I do have sections because one is my everyday substack posts and the other is grief, endings and beginnings. But I am now going to look again 😁xxx
I decided to put my workshop replays in a section. Partly because I like having a description on its main page (https://alyssapolizzi.substack.com/s/paid-subscriber-workshops). It also allows me to hide them from appearing on the homepage so they are only in the section listing (I prefer the look of this). You bring up some good points here though that I'll reflect on. Thanks, Sarah!
So helpful, Sarah! I kind of like how I have sections set up for my pub, with buttons in the navigation bar and a short description when you click on each section tab. Still, I'm considering keeping sections AND making groups with the same names, so that I can have those displayed lower down on the homepage.
Sarah, thanks for this helpful and clear guide. Did you personally have any internal debate about making Cured: The Memoir and Substack Writers at Work separate sections of the Sarah Fay Substack, or were you clear from the start that you wanted them completely separate? Or in the examples you gave, what do you think would point towards right thoughts on dogs and carpets (or literary non-fiction and serialized fantasy novel) being separate publications versus sections? Is that a matter of author preference, or are there logical steps you would walk through? I don’t know if that makes sense. I might be overthinking it.
I wish substack would just name things normally. Like, don't we all have an understanding of what "categories" are from the old blogging days? Or is that just me? I feel like people would understand categories more than they do tags, especially since it's so close "HASHtag." I don't like being complain-y, but in my day job I'm very user-experience and anti-jargon focused and this kind of stuff drives me nuts.
I must be dense. Groups of posts? Or groups of people to receive separate posts. Also, i have now set up one section on travel and i want two others. Can you do something on how to fully set up a section. I would also appreciate how to change the photo on my site. I have another photo in the profile but the very first one i inserted is still what goes on my transmissions. Thanks very much .
Sarah, have you figured out a way to toggle Sections on the app? My readers are running into this issue. I intentionally started a separate newsletter without opting any of them into it. Now they can't add themselves from their phones. Utterly obnoxious. There's also a distinct possibility that one has to have an account in order to toggle Sections on and off, but I have yet to test and confirm this.
Sarah, this is something that I need, but part of your side screen is cropped so I didn’t quite see how to organize my posts in groups after I tagged them!!
Aha! I wondered how people got groups showing on their home page. Perfectly timed explanation for me, thank you Sarah!
If you had not explained this to me in detail, I would otherwise have had no idea what the difference was between groups or sections, let alone how to set them up. Thank you, team (shout out to your assistant) WAW.
I asked Substack for help and figured it out… :)
Very helpful, Sarah, thanks!
This was so useful. I do have sections because one is my everyday substack posts and the other is grief, endings and beginnings. But I am now going to look again 😁xxx
I decided to put my workshop replays in a section. Partly because I like having a description on its main page (https://alyssapolizzi.substack.com/s/paid-subscriber-workshops). It also allows me to hide them from appearing on the homepage so they are only in the section listing (I prefer the look of this). You bring up some good points here though that I'll reflect on. Thanks, Sarah!
So helpful, Sarah! I kind of like how I have sections set up for my pub, with buttons in the navigation bar and a short description when you click on each section tab. Still, I'm considering keeping sections AND making groups with the same names, so that I can have those displayed lower down on the homepage.
Sarah, thanks for this helpful and clear guide. Did you personally have any internal debate about making Cured: The Memoir and Substack Writers at Work separate sections of the Sarah Fay Substack, or were you clear from the start that you wanted them completely separate? Or in the examples you gave, what do you think would point towards right thoughts on dogs and carpets (or literary non-fiction and serialized fantasy novel) being separate publications versus sections? Is that a matter of author preference, or are there logical steps you would walk through? I don’t know if that makes sense. I might be overthinking it.
I wish substack would just name things normally. Like, don't we all have an understanding of what "categories" are from the old blogging days? Or is that just me? I feel like people would understand categories more than they do tags, especially since it's so close "HASHtag." I don't like being complain-y, but in my day job I'm very user-experience and anti-jargon focused and this kind of stuff drives me nuts.
I must be dense. Groups of posts? Or groups of people to receive separate posts. Also, i have now set up one section on travel and i want two others. Can you do something on how to fully set up a section. I would also appreciate how to change the photo on my site. I have another photo in the profile but the very first one i inserted is still what goes on my transmissions. Thanks very much .
Wow. This is just blows my mind. Really useful tip! To be honest, I thought that "tags" were hashtags :') Glad to learn I was wrong.
Thank you
This has entirely improved our homepage - thank you Sarah!
Sarah, have you figured out a way to toggle Sections on the app? My readers are running into this issue. I intentionally started a separate newsletter without opting any of them into it. Now they can't add themselves from their phones. Utterly obnoxious. There's also a distinct possibility that one has to have an account in order to toggle Sections on and off, but I have yet to test and confirm this.
Wish I'd known this before I started "tagging" everything! Only 594 more tags to delete... Very helpful information moving forward, none the less.
Thanks. Is the link in this thread?