Discover Dozens Of Viral Notes Hidden In Your Articles
Introducing The NoteFinder
Jeanette Martin sent me a message recently that blew my mind.
She said she got 700 new subscribers after using my tool, The NoteFinder.
"My likes (2.4k), comments(208), restacks (123) and new subscribers(700+) went through the roof with help editing a Note with Tom's Notefinder tool. I feel my audience has finally found me after a year posting regularly on Substack with one well edited Note, based on a post I'd written months before that didn't get much engagement."
As a writing coach, it’s music to my ears.
It took me 40+ hours to make The NoteFinder, which “finds” hidden Notes in your full-length blog posts.
All you do is copy your article text into it, press enter, and watch it give you 3 Note variations (5 if you’re a paid subscriber).
If you want to try it out for free, sign up for it here.
You’ll be given 3 tokens (or 3 uses) for this tool. Paid subscribers get 50 tokens per month.
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to use it.
NoteFinder Tutorial
You’re Sitting On Dozens Of Viral Notes (Without Realizing It)
12 months ago, I wrote this viral Note on Substack:
You’d never know it, but it was actually copied from this Medium article I wrote in 2019: 50 Lessons I Learned After 50 Months Of Blogging
This note got more than 5,000 clicks and generated 250 free subscribers.
Here’s another semi-viral Note I wrote on my second profile, Thomas Kuegler
This was also taken from an old article of mine from 2022: 7 Things They Really Should’ve Taught Us In School.
That article got 300 views. This Note got 345 likes. I’ll take that any day of the week.
There’s probably 100’s of viral Notes in my bank of existing articles, just waiting to be discovered.
If you’ve written 10 blog posts, there’s probably at least 3 viral Notes waiting for you.
If you’ve written 50 blog posts, there’s at least 15 viral Notes waiting for you.
If you’ve written 100? Oof. You got a gold mine there, buddy.
You got 100’s of free subscribers just waiting there for you.
And honestly, that’s why I built the NoteFinder.
I wanted to help people discover their own gold.
We’ve gotten rave reviews so far from people!
J.R. Heimbigner wrote“Alright Tom, I am giving it a go. I’ve already popped out three notes and all of them would get me to stop and read so I’m excited about jumping into it more. I think you may have created one heck of a tool.”
Magdalena Ponurska wrote,“NoteFinder - OMG! Best invention since discover of penicillin (lol)- I'm loving it - super high quality notes, I've played with different lengths of articles—the longer the article, the higher quality of the notes—just an observation. Well done!!!”
And one cool trick is… use the NoteFinder to “discover” viral Notes, then use the NoteSmith to polish it up.
Laura Michelle Wolff MEd wrote “As you suggested, I took one of the five (note drafts) and put it into NoteSmith where it polished the note to perfection!”
7 Benefits Of Using The NoteFinder
Here are some benefits of using the NoteFinder.
Create 30 days of Notes in 10 minutes- If you use the NoteFinder 6 times as a paid subscriber, it will give you 30 days worth of Notes to post. This whole process takes about 10 minutes.
Save 5+ hours of your time every month- Many people spend 5-10 hours monthly writing Notes. Save ALL that time with the NoteFinder.
Stay consistent on Notes - NoteFinder gives you 5 Notes to publish when you’re having writer’s block.
Take the guesswork out of it - Many writers feel confused about what performs well on Notes. This tool takes the guesswork out of it. It knows what resonates on Notes, and how to naturally find it in your article.
Makes repurposing easy - You've heard "Repurpose your content!" But when combing through your 2,000-word article, you freeze. Where to start? What parts work as standalone Notes? Relax, The NoteFinder’s got this.
More visibility - Like Jeanette, using the NoteFinder can help you go viral.
Find dozens of viral Notes hidden in your articles- The perfect viral Note could be hiding in paragraph 17 of your article from last month, but without the NoteFinder, you'll never find it.
You could get hundreds of subscribers in days if you unlock them with the NoteFinder.
9 Facts About The NoteFinder
Here are some things to keep in mind about The NoteFinder as you use it.
1. Refresh it after every use
After you use The NoteFinder, refresh the page before using it again. It writes shorter and shorter Notes the more times you use it in one session for some reason. It might have something to do with output limits. Just keep that in mind.
2. It looks for 16 note-worthy elements in the text
There’s a secret sauce to how the NoteFinder works. I trained it to look for 16 specific elements of note-worthy posts in your articles. I’ll release these 16 note-worthy elements to paid subscribers in March so you can manually find Notes in future articles if you want.
3. It teaches you things at the bottom of every response
My goal with these AI tools is to teach you how to write better Notes, too. With that in mind, you’ll find a “FOOD FOR THOUGHT” section at the end of every NoteFinder response that teaches you something about how to find Notes in your own articles.
4. It suggests 5 Notes to give you many options
I found that this NoteFinder can be hit or miss sometimes. Most of the time it does write a great Note, but sometimes it can really miss the mark. That’s why I got it to write five Note variations instead of two or three. I wanted to give you at least two great Notes every time you used it. It passes that test with flying colors!
5. Add context when necessary
The one achilles heel of this tool is that it sometimes messes up context. It sometimes references a detail you explained earlier in the article and doesn’t give proper context about that detail in the self-contained Note it writes. You’ll see what I mean as you use it. Use your judgement. Add details if necessary. You shouldn’t have to add more than 1-2 sentences if it calls for it.
6. It’s a fantastic Note writer
It took me a while, but this tool really writes some incredible Notes. You’ll be astonished with it. I also trained it on the Note-writing principles of the NoteSmith to maintain a standard across my AI tools.
7. It uses your voice and words 95% of the time
The cool thing about the NoteFinder is, it uses your own words to construct these Notes. 95% of the time, it doesn’t write anything new for you. However, it does do things like:
Shorten lengthy sentences.
Rearrange sentences.
Make bullet points out of relevant text.
The only time it will really add words is at the ending. Since Notes are supposed to be a self-contained thought, it might add a lesson at the end that you implied in the text, but didn’t actually spell out.
Just be aware of that, and change the ending as you see fit.
8. Plug it back into the NoteSmith if you want
One cool experiment you could try is to get Notes suggested with the NoteFinder, then copy/paste these drafts into the NoteSmith to get even more feedback. It’s up to you. This will eat up tokens, so keep that in mind.
9. You can use these Note drafts as a first draft
If you want, you could also look at Note drafts from the NoteFinder as a foundation. A first draft, if you will. I believe most of the time you can simply copy/paste them into Substack and hit publish, but you might want to add 25-75 words to it, too. That’s fine! Again, use these tools how you see fit.
More Glowing NoteFinder Testimonials
Here’s more glowing NoteFinder testimonials we got..
“Very impressive, Tom! All 5 of the proposed notes are publishable as they are, although I would probably tweak each one just a little bit. I can't imagine how you created this tool. Well done!”
Hi Tom. Another great tool. Thank you. I've just posted one of my articles into it and it produced 5 brilliant notes. I've tweaked a couple of them….
This is so fantastic. Thank you. I've noticed recently that every time I sat down to write a note, my energy felt dragged down. I didn't really want to do it but it's necessary if I want to grow here on Substack. Now you have just removed that pain!
Sign Up For The NoteFinder
If you want to try The NoteFinder out for free, sign up for it here.
You’ll be given 3 tokens (or 3 uses) for this tool.
Again, if you want the premium version, and 50 more monthly tokens, become a paid subscriber to The Writing Long Game right here.
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