Title: Substack Post Cheat-Sheet
Subtitle: for my personal reference and as test
This post is a little cheat-sheet for myself :) If you want to learn more about Substack: [Link to all Substack possibilities]
ARTICLE VOICEOVER
upload or record audio and attach it to the top – intended to read the article content
if post is for paid users, free users wont be able to listen
you can be creative with it, maybe add a song as the theme for the article
GENERAL
about the editor itself
Drafts are saved, you can schedule posts,
BASICS
bold, italic, strikethrough, code and links – and also footnotes!1
bullet points
indent level 2
level 3
level 4 … the square stays, so I’d recommend not going further than 3
numbered lists
level 2: become alphabetical
level 3: become roman
level 4: list again
STYLE: HEADINGS
Heading 1
Don’t set H1 inline. The title is your only h1. (I think, I have to check that with SEO)
Heading 2
Most commonly used – use H2 for overview and navigation.
Heading 3
Rare – when ever you want to go into detail.
Heading 4
Super rare – consider that the size of an H4 is just slightly larger than paragraph text.
Headings below 4 won’t be shown in the automatic created table of contents on the left (desktop only)
Heading 5
Hyper rare – Heading 5 is smaller than paragraph text (here in Substack).
Heading 6
Don’t use – your table of contents will look like shit and nobody gets your point :D
Inserting Media
link inserts work as you’d expect, but whats cool, if you paste link from social platforms the embed is automatic (like spotify or youtube links)
Quotes look like this:
Block Quote
Pull Quote
The following is about those media types:
images
audio
video
You can insert links, image files and galleries (up to 9 images), audio files, video files and embeds for all sorts of other media (just paste the plain link)
Images
you can even edit them! rotate, flip, crop, add filters or adjust parameters like brightness, contrast, saturation or clarity. you can annotate and draw or write on images, and you can add stickers (little images) to your image. and you can blur specific parts of an image.
3 width settings as seen below: normal, wide and full
Image Galleries
up to 9 images
open beautifully in a gallery set
Stock photos from Unsplash
in case you want to directly browse stock images
Audio
embed any audio file
size limit: idk
Video
upload and embed any video file
size limit: idk
Buttons
“Subscribe” and “Subscribe with Caption”
“Share” and “Share Post with Caption” and “Share Publication”
“Leave a Comment” and “Send a Message” and “Join the Chat” and “Get the App”
“Custom Button” :)
More
Code Block
Code block :)
Basic stuffPoetry
What ever the fuck this is… we dont know :D I think you can set. really long. spaces.
normal text: → ← also a big space – it is visible?
Poll
Paywall
Everything below a “paywall” can only be read by paid subscribers – it’s not in here, because I wanted to make this post available to anyone, enable comments (so you can have a look at this feature as well).
The only dumb thing I’ve just noticed: since your footnotes go below the paid content (automatically – at the end of the document) just paid users can read the footnotes?! Thats a bug.
Footnotes are a damn cool feature! They re-organise themselves. And the little number on the right side is clickable and brings you to that section of the page.