Summary
I am starting a newsletter about my learnings on coding, technology, health, and productivity.
I’m going to post useful content from my logseq graph on twitter, where I will have a newsletter signup on my profile.
My newsletter will mostly be curated tweets, which will be high quality links to my graph with screenshots.
My website will be used for permantently storing the articles, my twitter will be used for promotion and commenting,
Related long term goals
write book
100000 followers
become financially independent
Desired output
Gain 100 newsletter followers in the next 3 months.
Tasks
set up newsletter on twitter
research newsletter platforms
pick newsletter platform
revue
reserach twitter newsletter
Write first newsletter
Announce newsletter
ask for feedback on newsletter-roadmap
create initial newsletter-roadmap for first 6 weeks
Templates
newsletter/template
Habits 100 newsletter subscribers
schedule note tweet SCHEDULED: <2022-06-28 Tue .+1d>
Quote tweet and link tweet SCHEDULED: <2022-06-28 Tue .+1d>
Comment and like - 5 mins SCHEDULED: <2022-07-07 Thu .+1d>
Clean up followers - 5 mins SCHEDULED: <2022-06-28 Tue .+1d>
update content in reveue. SCHEDULED: <2022-07-06 Wed .+2d>
newsletter research SCHEDULED: <2022-06-29 Wed .+1w>
update and tune newsletter-roadmap SCHEDULED: <2022-06-28 Tue .+1d>
weekly review SCHEDULED: <2022-06-29 Wed ++1w>
analytics
status
newsletter-roadmap research SCHEDULED: <2022-06-30 Thu .+1d>
Notes
Newsletter Hosting Providers Comparison
| Option | Pros | Cons | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Substack | - well known[:br]- better ux and writing interface | - take 10% earnings[:br]- $50 custom domain fee | fees too high |
| Revue | - takes 5% earnings[:br]- twitter badge and integration[:br]- unlimited subscribers | - Interface not as nice as substack | Iffy UI, but free and integrates with twitter |
| Mailchimp | - powerful tooling and templates[:br]- customer support | Overkill for personal newsletter | better for startups |