Note on navigating The Worldview's "sections"
i.e. how to avoid getting too many emails from me.
I understand that some of my readers may only be interested in writing and reporting about the Middle East, while others may only want to be notified when I publish something original about my home state of Rhode Island.
This little guide will hopefully help my readers eliminate some of the emails and notifications about posts that aren’t relevant to their interests.
Substack provides me with the opportunity to organize my page into “sections.” I can assign which section I want a post to be published under while I am drafting the post.
I have been meaning to send out this brief explanatory note for a while, to help readers filter out emails they are uninterested in receiving, but I haven’t utilized my more specialized sections terribly often so I have been putting it off.
It occurred to me that I should do it now, as I started putting together a post for my Rhode Island Report section about an upcoming Turning Point USA event at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick.
The Saturday Digest I try to put out every week is published under the main “The Worldview” section. The only other sections I have made any effort to publish in so far are:
Rhode Island Report (local stuff)
Dispatchy Memory (travel stuff)
RIPTA Rider Reader (allegedly soon-to-be revived sports column)
To control which sections you get emails and notifications from, you can go to “account settings” (or your.substack.com/account). You’ll see your subscriptions there.
Click on The Worldview within your list of subscriptions, and it should bring you to a little menu with settings for notifications and emails specifically for my newsletter:
If you are only interested in the Saturday Digest, you can leave “the Worldview” section checked and toggle everything else off.
If you are only interested in local Rhode Island reporting, you can leave “Rhode Island Report” checked and toggle everything else (including “The Worldview” section) off.
(Of course, there is often a Rhode Island-related story included in the Saturday Digest as well, and I encourage my readers — especially people I know personally who might feel weirdly obligated to read my posts from beginning to end — to skim the Digest and/or just completely ignore the sections that don’t interest them. I think it is an extremely valid reading strategy to scroll down to the Rhode Island/New England heading in the Digest, give the story a skim, and delete the rest of the email without feeling guilty.)
You should be able to fiddle with these notification settings for any Substack you subscribe to that is using sections to delineate different topics.
I hope you find this post helpful, and I hope you continue to read my work. Thanks for your continued interest and support.
—Zane