Join me on Notes
A new place to connect
I just published a note on Substack Notes. Notes is the thing that motivated Elon Musk to block Substack on Twitter last week, so it goes without saying that it’ a good thing.
Notes is a new space on Substack for readers and writers to share links, short posts, quotes, photos, and more. I plan to use it for rumors I’ve heard, something on another website I think you should have a look at…and of course photos of my dog Ruby and my two cats, Tazzy and Graycie. Plus, you’re not limited to 280 characters, or whatever the hell Twitter thought was ideal to spread right-wing lies, Russian disinformation, Tucker Carlson’s latest burp or fawning interview with Trump, or whatever the hell else Elon Musk thought was important.
Notes is a good place, not a bad one, and it’s ours not his.
I hope you’ll join Notes and jump into the ongoing conversations there.
How to join
Head to substack.com/notes or find the “Notes” tab in the Substack app. As a subscriber to Lucian Truscott Newsletter, you’ll automatically see my notes. Feel free to like, reply, or share them around!
You can also share notes of your own. I hope this becomes a space where every reader of Lucian Truscott Newsletter can share thoughts, ideas, and interesting quotes from the things we're reading on Substack and beyond.
If you encounter any issues, you can always refer to the Notes FAQ for assistance. Looking forward to seeing you there!
I've received complaints from readers about having to download the Substack app on their phones in order to comment on Notes. I just sent this complaint to Substack Support, and posted this same comment on Notes:
I'm getting lots of complaints from my subscribers about Notes, because it requires you to download the app if you want to join comments and other features.
Many of my subscribers are, like me, past their prime age-wise -- read: in their 70's and 80's -- and they don't do everything on their phones. There is no way to download the Substack app onto Windows computer, to my knowledge, so they can't use Notes fully and participate fully.
If there is a way to put the Substack app on either a Windows or Apple computer, please let me know how to do it.
In fact, I don't have the Substack app on my windows computer, and my computer is the main way I access Substack and Notes, so I cannot use the comments, and I'm one of your relatively successful writers.
Consider this a complaint about Notes from me.
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Oh, this is cool. Substack will let you comment in Notes on smartphone only via app. The house policy here is no app when a browser can do the job (for control over tracking and other security matters; the purpose of apps is to hoover up personal data). So I'm as shut off from comments in Notes as I was in twitter, which I never joined. A bit more time in my day.