Drafting an email in Substack

Demo summary

Demonstration of the Substack editor's limitations regarding link customization and the mandatory web-publishing workflow.

Links cannot be set to blue by default
Posts cannot be sent as email-only; they must also be published to the Substack website and app

Be prepared to fully buy into the Substack ecosystem if you choose to use the platform

“the email editor is nice but it's less customizable than beehive”

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