Francine, I don’t think there is a native ‘Save’ feature in Substack, but I have a feeling @Finn Tropy might have a save feature in one of his Substack tools. Finn?
Actually, Substack does offer a save feature, but it's only for posts. Next to the Share button below the title, subtitle, and author, you can see three dots. If you click, the pop-up shows Save, Cross post, Save as PDF. You can find saved articles in your subscriptions inbox. The top menu shows All, Listen, Paid, Saved, and History.
For Notes and Comments, I haven’t found a similar native mechanism, so I built one. It uses mentions, and I can send the details in DM, if you are interested.
A great list, I pay for Grammarly, did not know it was free...I will have to see what I get... for what I pay for... it is a lifesaver for me... learned some new ones... thank you.
Great article.
You could add stackreach.app
I built a free tool to generate social media cards from notes
Thank you Karen , I always learn something new from you 💗
Thanks Karen. I use Grammarly as my proofreader to spot missing commas, etc., although I usually disagree with its grammatical “corrections.”
Seriously? I‘d love to know why WriteStack didn‘t make this list.
I don’t use WriteStack, that’s why! Nothing personal :)
Interesting…
What can writestack do that you cannot from substack?
Very good and helpful list 👍🏼 thanks for sharing ✨
Interesting, you're introducing me to some new things. Is there a feature on Substack where we can save our favorite articles for later viewing?
Francine, I don’t think there is a native ‘Save’ feature in Substack, but I have a feeling @Finn Tropy might have a save feature in one of his Substack tools. Finn?
Actually, Substack does offer a save feature, but it's only for posts. Next to the Share button below the title, subtitle, and author, you can see three dots. If you click, the pop-up shows Save, Cross post, Save as PDF. You can find saved articles in your subscriptions inbox. The top menu shows All, Listen, Paid, Saved, and History.
For Notes and Comments, I haven’t found a similar native mechanism, so I built one. It uses mentions, and I can send the details in DM, if you are interested.
Thank you very much!
Great list, Karen.
I use 6 of the 10 tools you mentioned.
A few others have become part of my daily workflow:
• MacWhisper for turning meetings, interviews, and random voice notes into text.
• Obsidian as my second brain.
• Claude Desktop, which has earned a permanent spot on my toolbar. It's one of the few tools I happily pay $20/month for and use every day.
• Signal for secure messaging.
Then there’s the developer rabbit hole: Cursor, Bruno, DBeaver, DuckDB, and a growing collection of tools that somehow all became "essential."
The funny thing is that every tool promises to save time. Yet somehow I keep finding new ones to learn.
@stacksave
thanks, Finn. I also use Claude Desktop, though not for writing, and agree its worth every cent, but I wanted this post to be an AI-free zone.
So true...
A great list, I pay for Grammarly, did not know it was free...I will have to see what I get... for what I pay for... it is a lifesaver for me... learned some new ones... thank you.
I use a lot of these too, but I’m gonna check out a few. I didn’t know about.
@stacksave
The time zone headache best recommendation from your great list of resources, thank you