What notifications do I get about Substack Notes?

With notes, you can receive a variety of notifications via email, the Substack app, or in the Activity section on your Substack account.

On the web

Likes: When someone likes your note or restack, you'll receive a notification.

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Replies and mentions: When someone replies to your notes or comments or mentions you in a note, you'll receive a notification.

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Restacks: When someone restacks your note, you'll receive a notification.

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Paid subscriptions: If one of your notes generates at least $100 ARR in new paid subscriptions, you'll receive a notification about the specific note. 

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To disable these notes notifications, you can do that on your account Settings page in the Engagement section: https://substack.com/settings

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How do I pause my Notifications on Notes (On Web)? 

To pause notifications for notes, tap the three dots on a Note—whether you see it in your feed, your profile, or somewhere else—and choose 'Pause notifications' to stop getting updates from that conversation.

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This setting will pause you from receiving notifications from your note posted. 

On the Substack app

Engagement push notifications: These are push notifications you get when someone likes, restacks, replies to your note, or @mentions you. You can go to your Notifications settings on the app and select which push notifications you'd like to receive or turn them off.

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