Thanks for asking about this

! So, I start each week fresh with a Google Doc that looks like this.

I approach actually writing and responding to Notes in a totally organic manner. There are a few things I share regularly (my own posts, my inspirations for the week) but mostly I just see what’s happening in the conversations and respond conversationally and restack what feels relevant and interesting to me.

Every day or two, I go back through my “activity” tab and reflect on what’s been happening and begin to use that to fill in the blanks on that spreadsheet. By doing that, I notice patterns and trends in what people are talking about, I get more ideas about things that I’m curious to ask more about, etc. Usually I add my own extra notes into the Google Doc at that time.

At the end of the week, I move all of that to a new post in Substack. I add all of the “@” mentions and links, see if there are any other comments or thoughts I want to add, add in some buttons and polls and then share with all of you.

I love it. It really allows me to engage deeply with these conversations in a way that for me probably wouldn’t happen otherwise just because of how my own brain and attention work.

I essentially do the same thing for my Wednesday and Friday roundups except that in those cases I’m sharing themed content (writing on Wednesdays and art/mental health on Fridays) … with the latter one, I don’t have any specific categories so that’s more just free flow sharing what’s interesting me throughout the week.

Hope that makes sense. Questions welcome.