Writing and publishing posts

Click Write in the left sidebar. On a computer, Typeshare opens on Write by default.

The Write page asks "What do you want to write?" and shows a card for each format:

• Short Form: one post written once for X, Threads, Bluesky, LinkedIn and Substack Notes.
• LinkedIn Post: a post that starts with LinkedIn as its platform.
• Long Form: a longer piece, such as an article or newsletter.
• Atomic Essay: a short essay laid out as an image.
• Deck: a multi-page visual post, like a carousel.

The small icons on each card show where that format can be published, with the Typeshare icon last on every card. Click a card to create a new draft and open it in the editor.

Below the cards, scroll down to see your drafts and scheduled posts.

Short Form is the format for social posts. You write once, and the same post goes to every platform you pick: X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky and Substack (as a Note).

• X, Threads and Bluesky posts can be threads (several posts in a row).
• LinkedIn and Substack Notes are always a single post.

A new Short Form draft starts on the platforms you've connected, except LinkedIn, which you add yourself (or make part of your default platforms). A LinkedIn Post draft starts with LinkedIn only. You can change the platforms of any draft before it's published or scheduled.

Click the brain icon at the top right of the editor. In the Short Form editor it's just right of Add to Queue; in the Long Form editor, right of Preview & Publish; in the Atomic Essay and Deck editors, next to the theme button. The Digital Brain panel opens on the right of the editor. It lists your own past posts, the same ones as on the Digital Brain page. On a phone it's only in the Short Form editor, as a sheet from the bottom.

• All topics at the top picks one topic, or a whole section, to show only its posts.
• The type tabs (Short Form, Threads, LinkedIn Posts and so on), the Any time menu and the sort menu work like they do on the Digital Brain page. The panel opens on posts like the one you're writing: LinkedIn Posts while you're on LinkedIn, Threads once your post has a second part, Short Form for other short posts, Atomic Essays in an Atomic Essay and Carousels in a Deck. In the Long Form editor it opens on All, every post. Click All any time to see every post. If you switch platform or add a second part while it's open, the tab changes to match.
• Search your posts at the top finds posts by their words or by what they're about, inside the topic, type tab and dates you've picked. Posts with your exact words come first, then posts with all your words, then posts about the same idea. Put words in quotes, like "morning pages", to find only posts with exactly those words. Clear the box to go back to the list.
• Click a post to open it with its numbers.

The panel remembers whether you left it open, and which topic, dates and sort you picked, so the next draft opens the same way (the tab always follows what you're writing). To close it, click the double arrow at the top of the panel or the brain icon again.

In the Long Form, Atomic Essay and Deck editors, each post in the panel has Copy instead of Remix. It copies the post's words (a long form keeps its headings and lists) so you can paste them into your draft.

Open the Digital Brain panel (the brain icon at the top of the Short Form editor). Every post, thread, LinkedIn post and Substack Note in it has a Remix button. Remix is only in the Short Form editor; in the other editors, use Copy.

Remix replaces what's in the editor with the post exactly as it was: the same words, the same thread breaks and its images. If it quoted an X post, the quote comes too. Post it as it is, or change it into a new version.

The post goes into the draft you're in. If you've already written something there, Typeshare first asks Replace your draft?: click Replace (or press Enter) to swap your writing for the post (⌘Z brings your writing back), or Cancel to keep it. Unless you've typed your own title, the draft's title follows its first line, so it changes to the remixed post's. If the post you're in is scheduled or published, Remix opens a new draft instead. Long forms, Atomic Essays and Decks don't have Remix in the panel.

Clicking a post in the panel opens it with its numbers; Remix there does the same thing.

To get through several posts in one sitting, turn on Automatically create a new draft after posting (see below). After each Add to Queue, a blank draft opens with the panel still open on the same topic.

At the top of the editor is a row of platform tiles, one per platform the post will go to.

1. Click the ··· button at the end of the row (Choose platforms).
2. In Draft platforms, turn each platform's switch on or off.
3. Close the window.

Rules:

• Only connected platforms can be switched on. An unconnected one shows a Connect button that opens Settings > Channels.
• At least one platform must stay selected.
• Once a post is scheduled or published, its platforms are locked ("This post is scheduled or published, so its platforms can't change."). Unschedule it first to change them.

To make your choice the starting point for new posts, click Save as default platforms in the same window. This also saves your LinkedIn audience.

By default, edits sync across platforms: what you type changes every platform at once.

1. Click a platform tile at the top of the editor to open that platform's version.
2. Turn off Sync edits (top right of the platform row).
3. Edit freely. Only that platform changes, and its tile shows a Custom badge.

To go back to the shared text, turn Sync edits back on. If the platform's own version differs, Typeshare asks Replace the [platform] version? Choose Sync and replace to use the shared text and images again, or Keep [platform] version.

Each platform's custom version keeps its own images too.

The editor shows a ring with a character count next to each post. It turns amber near the limit and red when you go over. Hover it to see "count / limit".

Limits per post:

• X: 280 characters, or 4,000 with X Premium
• LinkedIn: 3,000
• Threads: 500
• Bluesky: 300
• Substack Note: 4,000

On X, Threads and Bluesky, each post in a thread has its own limit. Characters past the limit show in red. If you try to publish with a post over the limit, the editor shows what to fix (for example "Post 2 is over 280 characters").

Formatting marks (bold, italic and so on) don't count toward the limit, except on Substack where formatting is published.

On X, the editor counts characters the way X does, so the count can be higher than the number of letters you see:

• A link counts as 23 characters, however long it is.
• Some symbols count as 2, such as bullets (•), arrows (→) and Chinese, Japanese or Korean characters.

So a post with three "•" bullets that looks like 279 characters counts as 282 and goes over the 280 limit. If you see "Post #1 is over 280 characters (X counts emoji and some symbols as two)" (or another number) when you publish to X, that post is over X's limit. Shorten it, or swap "•" for "-", and publish again.

The longer X limit comes from X Premium on your connected X account. When Typeshare sees Premium on your account, the X limit in the editor becomes 4,000 and the X row in Settings > Channels shows X Premium: Active when you open it.

If you just subscribed to X Premium, it can take up to a day for Typeshare to notice. Until then, the editor keeps the 280 limit.

Threads work on X, Threads and Bluesky. Open the post on one of those platforms in the editor, then:

• Click the + at the left of a post's toolbar (next to the image button) to add a new empty post right below it.
• Press ⌘ Enter (Mac) or Ctrl Enter (Windows) to add a new post after the one you're typing in.
• At the end of a post, press Enter on an empty line (or three times at the end of a line) to start a new post. In the middle of a post you can leave up to three empty lines in a row; pressing Enter once more splits the post at the cursor, and the text after the cursor moves into a new post.
• Press Backspace at the very start of a post to merge it into the post above.
• Hover a post and click the trash icon (Remove this post) to delete it.

Use the up and down arrow keys at the start or end of a post to move between posts.

⌘ Z (Mac) or Ctrl Z (Windows) undoes the last change anywhere in the post, in the order you made the changes, even if you clicked between posts. That covers typing in any post, adding, splitting, merging and removing posts, images, and a quote. The cursor moves to whatever was undone. ⌘ Shift Z (or Ctrl Y) redoes it. Typing something new after an undo clears what you could redo.

LinkedIn and Substack Notes are single posts, so they don't have the + button.

LinkedIn and Substack Notes publish a thread as one post, with one blank line between what were separate posts on X. The editor shows it the same way.

With Sync edits on, you can edit there and the thread on X, Threads and Bluesky keeps its posts. Deleting the blank line between two of those posts joins them into one post on X too. While edits sync with X, Threads or Bluesky, LinkedIn and Substack keep at most three blank lines in a row. To add more space there, turn Sync edits off and edit that platform's own version.

Select some text in the editor to see the formatting toolbar.

• On every platform: Bulleted list and Numbered list.
• On Substack Notes only: Bold, Italic, Strikethrough, Code and Quote.

Keyboard shortcuts work too: ⌘/Ctrl B (bold), ⌘/Ctrl I (italic), ⌘/Ctrl E (code), ⌘/Ctrl Shift S (strikethrough), ⌘/Ctrl Shift 7 (numbered list), ⌘/Ctrl Shift 8 (bulleted list), ⌘/Ctrl Shift 9 (quote, Substack only).

Bold, italic and other text styles only publish on Substack, because X, LinkedIn, Threads and Bluesky don't support them. On those platforms the editor shows the text the way it will publish. Lists publish everywhere as plain "1." and "-" lines.

Click the smiley icon (Add an emoji) under a post to pick an emoji.

To mention someone on X or Bluesky, type @ followed by a name. A list of matching accounts appears; use the arrow keys and Enter, or click one. Mention suggestions aren't available for LinkedIn, Threads or Substack.

Paste the link to an X post into the editor. Instead of pasting the link as text, Typeshare attaches it as a quoted post under your first post.

• On X, it's published as a real quote post.
• On other platforms, it's shared as a link at the end of your first post. While you look at one of those platforms in the editor, the quote shows as that link instead of a card, and it counts toward the first post's character limit.

To remove it, click the × on the quoted post or next to the link (Remove quoted post). A post can quote one X post.

Click the image icon under a post (Attach media), then:

• Upload media to pick files from your computer (images, or an MP4 or MOV video), or
• Choose from media library to use something from your Media library. Click a folder name at the top to see only that folder, or
• Suggest media to let Typeshare pick for you (see below), or
• Make a visual to have the Designer make a brand-kit card or an illustration for the post (see below).

You can also drag images or a video from your computer (Finder, File Explorer or your desktop) straight onto a post, or paste a screenshot or a copied picture into a post with ⌘V (Ctrl V on Windows). See "How do I drag or paste images into a post?".

With Suggest media (in the same image icon menu), Typeshare reads the post, looks through your Media library and its folders, and adds the one photo or video that fits best. You see where it came from ("Added from {folder}") and why it fits. In a thread, each post's image icon has its own Suggest media.

Don't like the suggestion? Remove it and pick Suggest media again for a different one. If nothing fits, you see why, with Open Media to add a photo that would. Suggest media only offers a video when every platform you picked takes video and the post has no other media; you see "This post has all the media it can take" when there's no room left.

Drag image files (or one MP4 or MOV video) from your computer onto the post you want them on. While you drag, that post is outlined with Drop to add to this post; in a thread, move over the post you want and let go there. To paste instead, click into the post and press ⌘V (Ctrl V on Windows): a screenshot, or a picture you copied from a web page or an app, goes on that post.

Each picture shows on the post straight away, darkened with a spinner, while it uploads. Like Upload media, it's also added to your Media library and counts toward your storage. The usual rules apply (see the Rules below): a file that isn't a JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF image or an MP4 or MOV video, or an image over 30 MB, is turned away with a message saying why, and when a post already has 4 images only the ones that fit are added. If you drop more while an upload is still going, you see "Wait for the current upload to finish."

Dropping a file anywhere else on the page does nothing, so the page never swaps to the picture. Copying text from Word or Pages can carry a picture of that text too; pasting it pastes the words, not the picture.

Suggest media couldn't read the post this time. Pick Suggest media again. If it keeps happening, pick Choose from media library in the same image icon menu and add the photo yourself, then ask Ty for help so we can look into it. A very long post is fine: Suggest media reads the first 40,000 characters.

Sometimes the AI that picks from your Media library is slow to respond. When it takes too long, Typeshare stops and shows "Finding media took too long. Please try again." Nothing is added to the post. Pick Suggest media again, or pick Choose from media library in the same image icon menu and add the photo yourself.

Click the image icon under the post and choose Make a visual: the Designer reads the post and draws three different options, brand-kit cards (for a line, a list or a number, in a few seconds) and illustrations (for a scene, in up to a minute; each counts toward your usage).

A window opens with three options from the Designer, each shown as soon as it's ready. Click one and choose Use this one (or double-click it). Want something else? Click More options, optionally type what to change ("warmer colours", "a list card", "show a notebook"), and click Make 3 more for three new ones. The brand kit menu at the bottom left shows the kit they're drawn in: choose another, then Redraw in this kit to redraw the same ideas in it, or Make a new brand kit in the Designer chat. Options you don't pick are deleted; the one you pick goes on the post as a draft.

To make it about one part of the post, select those words: a bar appears above them with Make a visual. The Designer makes the visual about what you selected.

Remove it any time and ask again for another. You need to have hired the Designer; otherwise you see "Hire the Designer to make visuals for your posts."

Rules:

• Images must be JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, under 30 MB each. GIFs aren't resized (so they keep animating), so a GIF must be under 4 MB. A large PNG photo that is still over 4 MB after shrinking goes up as a JPEG (any transparent areas turn white).
• Up to 4 images per post, and 10 across a whole thread.
• A video goes on a post by itself, with no images.
• Substack Notes take up to 6 images, or one video on its own (up to 15 minutes).
• A PDF from your Media library can be posted to LinkedIn as a document. It goes alone on the first post, and only to LinkedIn.

A video has to fit every platform it goes to, whether you upload it or choose it from your Media library. If it's too long, too big or in a format one of them can't take, it isn't added, and you see which platform and why (for example "Threads takes videos up to 5 minutes; this one is 12 minutes"). To post it to the others anyway, turn off Sync edits on that platform so it gets its own version without the video; or use a video that fits. A video over 20 minutes needs X Premium on the connected X account. For video lengths and fixes, see "How long can my videos be?" and "Why won't a platform accept my video?" in the media help.

A video on a post shows its first frame with the player's controls along the bottom: play and pause, drag the bar to skip through it, change the volume or unmute, and go full screen. Full screen opens the video large over the page, carrying on from where it was; press Esc or the × to close it. It doesn't play until you click play. The same player shows on an agent's post when you review it.

Yes. Add the video to your post on the Write page (Upload, Choose from media library or Suggest media) with Substack picked, and it goes out as a Note with the video. A Note takes one video on its own (no images beside it), up to 15 minutes. Typeshare uploads the video to Substack when the Note goes out, so posting a long video takes a little longer. A Substack newsletter takes images only.

GIFs go up as they are, so they keep animating; photos are shrunk for you, GIFs aren't. A GIF over 4 MB shows "GIFs must be under 4 MB. Try a shorter or smaller GIF." Trim it, lower its size or frame rate in the app you made it with, or save a still as a PNG or JPEG instead.

When you write for LinkedIn and the post is longer than about three lines, the editor shows a dashed line with …see more under the third line. Everything above the line is what people see in their LinkedIn feed before they click …see more, so put your hook there. The line is only a guide: it isn't part of your post and doesn't get published.

LinkedIn's exact cut-off depends on the reader's screen, so treat the line as close, not exact.

Audience: open Choose platforms (the ··· button in the platform row). Next to LinkedIn, pick Anyone (anyone on or off LinkedIn) or Connections only. To make it your default, click Save as default platforms, or set LinkedIn audience in Settings > Writing.

First comment: not available yet. LinkedIn has to approve Typeshare for comment access first, so Add first comment is hidden for now. A post that already has a first comment still shows it under the LinkedIn version: click Remove first comment to drop it, since it can't be published.

Open the X, LinkedIn, Substack or Threads version of the post and click Add CTA under it (on LinkedIn it sits next to Add first comment, and the CTA you pick shows highlighted at the end of the post, since that's where it goes). A window lists your saved CTAs for that platform:

• Click a CTA to use it. The window closes and the post shows the CTA with its timing. Click No CTA to remove it.
• Click Edit on a CTA to change its words, when it replies (the clock) and the likes it needs (the heart), then Save. The trash icon deletes it. If it's the CTA on this post, the post uses your edit.
• Click New CTA to write one, set its timing, and Save and use.

Each CTA has its own timing, the same as your agents' CTAs:

• X, Substack and Threads: posted as a reply under your post or Note at the time you chose (from Right away to 24 hours after). With a likes minimum, the reply waits until the post has that many likes, checking every hour for up to a day, and is skipped if it never gets there.
• LinkedIn: added as the last line of the post when it goes out (left off if the post would go over 3,000 characters).

A CTA reply on X can be up to 280 characters, and on Threads up to 500. On Threads the window counts characters as you near 500, and Save stays off until it fits.

If you edit a CTA after picking it, the post uses the edited version when it goes out. If you delete or pause it, the post goes out without it.

Saved CTAs belong to the platform, not to an agent: you don't need an agent to save and reuse them. If you hire that platform's agent, its CTAs tab shows the same list. CTA replies on X count toward one monthly limit (30 a month), shared with your X Agent.

To change or remove the CTA on a post, click Change or the × next to it.

Once the post is out, open it in the editor and switch to the X, Substack or Threads version. The CTA shows as the reply it becomes:

• Replies in 2h 53m 12s: a live countdown to the reply, with the time it goes out and the likes it needs.
• Waiting for 10 likes: the post hasn't reached its minimum likes yet. Typeshare checks every hour for up to a day.
• Posted as a reply: it's live. Click View reply to open it. On Threads, View reply shows once Threads gives Typeshare the reply's link; if it's missing, refresh in a moment.
• Not posted: it didn't go out, and the card says why (for example the post never reached its likes, or the monthly X limit was used).

To stop a reply that hasn't gone out yet, click Cancel CTA on it. On LinkedIn the CTA was the post's last line, so it shows as posted with the post.

Under the first comment, click Use a CTA and pick one of your saved CTAs: it fills the comment, and you can still edit it. Manage CTAs… in the same menu opens your LinkedIn CTA list.

1. In the editor, click the arrow next to the green Add to Queue button (Publishing options).
2. Choose Post now.
3. Check the list of platforms in Post now? and click Post now.

Typeshare shows Posting… while it sends the post, then Posted with a View post link for each platform. Click Write a new post to start another, or Done.

If some platforms fail, the window says Some platforms failed (or It didn't post) with the reason under each one. Click Back to the post, fix the problem and try again. See "Why did my post fail to publish?" in the scheduling help.

If a post went out on some platforms but not others, open the post and click the platform that failed. A red line says "Platform didn't post" and why. Fix the problem in that platform's version (for example, shorten the X version), then click Retry Platform on that line. Only that platform is sent. The platforms that already posted aren't posted again.

Sometimes a platform shows as failed although it posted, for example when your phone lost its connection or the browser tab went to sleep while the post was going out. If you retry Substack in that case, Typeshare sees the post is already on Substack: it isn't posted twice, and Substack shows as published with its link.

If other platforms on the post are still scheduled, use Post all now from the scheduled button instead.

If your post has a problem (empty, over the limit, a video a platform can't take), nothing is sent. A red box under the platform row lists what to fix ("Can't publish yet" or "N things to fix before publishing"). Click an item to jump to the post that needs fixing.

A video for X or LinkedIn uploads in the background first, so Post now shows the platform as scheduled with "The video is uploading; the post goes out as soon as it is ready." The post goes out on its own when the upload finishes. You don't need to click Post now again. If you do, you'll see "Your video is still uploading. The post goes out as soon as it is ready."

If the upload fails, the platform shows "Platform didn't post" with the reason, and you can post again. "Typeshare needs posting access to your X account. Reconnect X in Settings → Channels." means your X connection needs to be reconnected first (see "How do I connect X?" in the connecting accounts help).

Your connection dropped (or your phone locked or switched apps) after you clicked Post now, Add to Queue or Schedule for later, before Typeshare could answer. Typeshare may still have posted or booked it. Before you try again, check that you're back online, then look at the post: if it shows as posted or scheduled, or the post is live on the platform, it went out and you don't need to send it again. If it's still a draft, click Post now (or your other option) again.

Yes. Turn on Automatically create a new draft after posting. You'll find it:

• in the Publishing options menu in the editor,
• at the bottom of the Posted window, or
• in Settings > Writing.

It's for short-form posts only; the Long Form editor doesn't have it. With it on, Typeshare skips the summary after posting, scheduling or adding to your queue, and opens a blank short-form draft. Post now and Add to Queue also skip the confirmation step and go straight out. Schedule for later still asks, because you pick the time there. For scheduled and queued posts, a message tells you when each platform will post.

Go to Settings > Writing > Short-form writing.

1. Under Default platforms, click each platform to turn it on or off.
2. Pick a Starting platform (the version the editor opens on).
3. If LinkedIn is on, pick a LinkedIn audience.
4. Click Save defaults.

This applies to new blank posts. Existing drafts keep their setup. Unconnected platforms are preview-only until you connect them in Channels.

You can also click Save as default platforms in the editor's Draft platforms window.

Yes. The editor saves as you type. The cloud icon next to the title shows All changes saved, or Saving changes... while it saves. If it turns red (Error saving changes. Click to retry.), click it to try again.

If you close the tab before a save finishes, the editor keeps a copy in your browser and shows Restored unsaved changes next time you open the draft.

To rename a draft, click the title at the top left (it starts as "Untitled post") and type.

The editor keeps your changes and saves them as soon as you're back online. While they wait you'll see You're offline. Your latest changes will save when you're back online. (or Couldn't save your latest changes. Retrying… if the connection is up but the save failed), and then Back online. Your changes are saved. Keep the tab open until you see that: closing it first asks you to confirm, because the waiting changes are only on this device.

The post (a Long Form piece, Atomic Essay or Deck) was edited somewhere else (another tab, window or device) after you opened it here, so Typeshare stopped saving this copy rather than overwrite the newer text. Copy anything you typed here that you want to keep, reload the page to get the latest version, then paste it back in.

In the short-form editor the same thing shows as This draft changed in another window. Reload before editing further; your unsaved text is backed up in this browser., either under the editor or when you click the back arrow. The editor stays open so you can copy your text first. A save that was cut off by a dropped connection doesn't cause it: the editor knows that save was its own.

A Long Form piece's body can hold about 65,000 bytes of text and formatting (roughly 10,000 words of plain writing; emoji and accented letters take more room than plain letters). Past that, the editor shows Not saved, and hovering the red cloud icon shows the message. Your latest changes aren't saved until the piece is shorter, so keep the tab open while you fix it.

• "…because it has pasted images in it": images pasted in from another app (Word, Apple Notes, some web pages) can come in as the picture's data rather than a link, and one picture can fill the whole piece. Delete each pasted image, then add it again by typing / and choosing Image: that uploads it, so it takes almost no room.
• Otherwise: split the piece into two Long Form pieces (cut the second half and paste it into a new one), or cut some of it.

The title and subtitle have the same limit; if one is too long, the message says This title is too long to save or This subtitle is too long to save. Shorten it.

Your latest changes didn't reach Typeshare (usually a connection problem), so the editor stays open instead of leaving them behind. Click the red cloud icon next to the title to try the save again, and leave once it shows All changes saved.

If Typeshare turned the save down for a reason a retry won't fix (you were signed out, the draft was deleted, LinkedIn won't take the first comment), the message says that reason instead, and the red cloud icon shows it too. Fix what it names, or click Leave anyway on the message to go back without saving; the same button is there on the connection message. Unsaved text from a short-form draft is backed up in this browser and comes back when you reopen the draft, unless the draft was changed somewhere else in the meantime.

On the Write page, click Long Form, Atomic Essay or Deck.

• Long Form is for longer writing. It can go to your Typeshare profile, Substack and X (as an X Article), and opens in the Long Form editor (see "How do I publish a Long Form piece to Typeshare, Substack and X?").
• Atomic Essay lays a short essay out as an image you can share on X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Substack (as a Note) and your Typeshare profile. It holds up to 400 words (see "Why can't I type more in my Atomic Essay?").
• Deck is a multi-page visual post for LinkedIn, X, Threads, Bluesky and Instagram.

Atomic Essays and Decks open in the full editor. For an Atomic Essay or Deck, click the palette icon at the top right to open Theme and change the look (on a phone, open the ··· menu and choose Theme). When you're ready, click Publish in the top bar. In the publish window, pick where it goes, then click Publish Now or Schedule. Once something is scheduled, the button reads Scheduled; once published, Update.

Every Long Form piece you started before the Long Form editor opens in it too, including older Medium stories and pieces with the old "Start Writing" CTA block (the block stays where it was).

To download an Atomic Essay or Deck, open the ··· menu and choose Export (PNG images, JPEG images or PDF document).

Atomic Essays are capped at 400 words, title included. The count shows above the essay on the right, like 312 / 400, and turns red at the cap. At 400 words the editor stops taking new words, whether you type, paste or drop them: a paste that would go over is cut to the words that fit. You can still delete, reword and fix typos, and finish the word you're on.

When you reach the cap, a notice above the essay says Atomic Essays are capped at 400 words. Would you like to turn this into an Article?

• Yes, switch to Long Form turns the essay into a Long Form piece (the Write page's article format) with all your writing kept, and opens it in the Long Form editor, which has no word cap. It works like ··· > Change Format > Long Form.
• No thanks closes the notice and keeps the essay as it is, cap included. The notice comes back only if you go under 400 words and reach the cap again.

An Atomic Essay you wrote before the cap with more than 400 words still opens and saves: you can shorten it, but not add words until it's under 400.

The Long Form editor is a quiet page: the title, then your words. The subtitle, cover and where it goes are set when you publish (see "How do I publish a Long Form piece to Typeshare, Substack and X?"). It saves on its own as you write.

• Blocks: type / for blocks (headings, lists, quote, code, divider, image, table, Designer graphic), or use Markdown as you type (## heading, - list, > quote, **bold**).
• Images: type / and choose Image, drag image files from your computer onto the page, or paste a screenshot or copied picture. See "How do I add an image to a Long Form piece?".
• Formatting: select text for bold, italic, headings, lists, links and Only on.
• Moving blocks: hover a block and drag its handle (⋮⋮) to move it; + adds a block. On a phone or tablet there's no handle: type / to add a block. Drag across the empty space beside the text to select several blocks. Drag to the top or bottom of the window and the page scrolls so you can select more. Then ⌘C copies them, ⌘X cuts them and Backspace deletes them.
• Select all: press ⌘A (Ctrl+A on Windows) to select the block you're in; press it again to select the whole piece. Type, cut, copy or delete as with any selection.
• A part for one platform: type / and choose Only on Substack, Only on X or Only on Typeshare, or select text and use the filter icon in the selection menu. That part only goes to those platforms (for example a subscribe line just for Substack). Click its Only on… label to change the platforms or choose Show everywhere.
• Linking a Substack post: paste a link to a Substack post on a line of its own. On Substack it goes out as Substack's post card.
• Substack's paywall and buttons: type / and choose Paywall, Subscribe button or Share button. They only go to Substack: the X Article and your Typeshare post get the whole piece without them. See "Can I add a paywall to a Long Form piece?".
• Word count: bottom left, with the minutes it takes to read. On a phone it's under ··· > Focus mode.

Three ways, and each puts the image in the piece as its own block:

• Drag it in: drag one or more image files from your computer (Finder, File Explorer or your desktop) onto the page. While you drag, the writing is outlined with a dashed line, and a line between paragraphs shows where the images will land. Let go and they go in there, never in the middle of a paragraph.
• Paste it: copy a picture (or take a screenshot to the clipboard) and press ⌘V (Ctrl V on Windows). It goes in after the paragraph you're in.
• Pick it: type /, choose Image, and pick files from your computer.

The image shows faded while it uploads, then turns solid once it's saved with the piece. It's also added to your Media library, and counts toward your storage. Images must be JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, under 30 MB each; any other file you drop is turned away with a message saying why. If an upload fails (for example, your storage is full), a message says why and that image is taken out.

Dropping a file beside the page (in the margins or on the header) does nothing, so the page never swaps to the picture.

Type / and choose Image to pick a file, drag image files from your computer onto the card's text, or paste a screenshot or copied picture into it. While you drag, the card's text is outlined with a dashed line, and a line shows where the image will land. You see Uploading image…, then Image added.

Each card takes JPEG, PNG or WebP images under 30 MB, and up to 12 images. Drop several and they go in one after another. A file of any other kind is turned away with a message saying why. Images are also added to your Media library.

Text pasted from Word, Apple Notes or some web pages can bring its pictures along as the picture's data rather than a link. The Long Form editor uploads each pasted picture on its own and puts the uploaded image in its place, so your piece stays small enough to save. The picture shows at once; it's saved with the piece a moment later, once its upload finishes. If an upload fails, a message says why and that picture is taken out: add it again by typing / and choosing Image.

The top bar has a round back button, the piece's state in the middle (Draft, Scheduled or Published, and Saved or Saving…), Publish, and ···. Scroll down and the title moves into the bar; tap it to jump back to the top.

• Publish opens Preview & Publish as a sheet from the bottom. It's greyed out until the piece has a title and some words. In the sheet, tap Substack or X Article at the top to see the piece there (a check means it's already out there, a clock that it's booked, ! that something needs fixing), ··· to choose platforms, and × to close. Subtitle, Covers and the publish buttons are at the bottom.
• Once it's booked, Publish becomes a round calendar button with Post all now, Move to a time…, Unschedule and Queue settings. The card under the bar shows when and where it goes, with Unschedule.
• Published (once it's out everywhere) has a link to each platform and Convert to Draft.
• ··· has Focus mode and the usual post actions. Full screen is on computers only.

1. Type / where you want it and choose Designer graphic.
2. Describe what it should show, and pick Wide or Square.
3. Click Make it.

A box appears where you asked, saying "The Designer is drawing…", and the graphic replaces it when it's ready (about a minute, counted toward your AI usage). Keep writing while it draws. It's drawn in your brand kit's style. If you haven't hired the Designer, the button reads Hire Designer and make it: one click hires it and makes the graphic.

They're at the top right of the Long Form editor, before Preview & Publish. On a phone, open ··· and choose Focus mode: tap a mode to turn it on (the word count is at the bottom). Full screen is on computers only.

• Focus mode (the icon with a small arrow): choose one at a time. Hover an option to see what it does.
  • Off: everything at full strength.
  • Sentence: dims everything but the sentence you're writing.
  • Paragraph: dims everything but the paragraph (or list) you're in.
  • Typewriter: the line you're on stays in the middle of the screen, even in a short piece with just a title and a line. The page scrolls only as far as your first and last lines.

  ⌘D (Ctrl+D on Windows) moves to the next mode. Your choice is remembered in this browser.

• Full screen (the arrows icon, or ⌘⇧F): just the page. The sidebar, the header and Ty step away. Move the mouse to see the controls, the word count and "Press Esc to exit full screen". Press Esc, or click that message, to leave. The brain icon in those controls opens your Digital Brain beside the page, so you can look through your past posts without leaving full screen; if it was open when you went full screen, it stays open.

Not as it is. Once a Long Form piece, Atomic Essay, Visual Essay or Deck is published, it's locked: the editor shows a Published bar with a link to the post on each platform it went to, and the words (and, for essays and decks, the theme) can't be changed. To change it, click the green Published button at the top right (or ···) and choose Convert to Draft. It comes off your Typeshare profile, goes back to your drafts and opens for editing; publish it again when you're done. Short-form posts lock each platform once it's out on that platform.

Every format shows a toast after publishing with what the post added to your Brain Score.

Click the green Published button at the top right of the editor. Its menu has View on Typeshare, View on X, View on Substack and so on, one for each place the post went, plus Convert to Draft. On an Atomic Essay, Visual Essay or Deck it also has Retry or add a platform: it opens the publish window, where a platform that didn't post can be tried again (after you fix what it said, like reconnecting the account) without sending the post anywhere it already went. Retry is greyed out until the other platforms finish sending, so nothing is sent twice. Long Form pieces, Atomic Essays, Visual Essays and Decks also show the same links in the Published bar above the post.

Click Preview & Publish at the top right. One window shows the piece as each platform shows it, with everything it needs beside it. With nothing connected, it goes to your Typeshare profile only.

1. Where it goes: it always goes on your Typeshare profile. A tile with a green check already has the piece, a clock means it's booked there, and an orange ! means something needs fixing first. The tiles above the preview are Substack (your publication's logo) and X Article: click one to see the piece there. Click ··· to open Long form platforms:
   • Switch Substack or X on or off for this piece. They need to be connected; Connect takes you to Settings > Channels.
   • Pick the Substack publication it goes to (each shows its logo and name; your default is marked). It changes only this piece. A scheduled piece keeps the publication it was scheduled for.
   • Openers & closers and Save as default platforms (starts new long forms with the same platforms). With Substack on, it also makes the publication you picked your default publication, the same as Newsletters go to in Settings > Channels: you see "Default platforms and publication saved". You can also set the default platforms in Settings > Writing > Long form writing > Default platforms.
2. The preview: the piece in a browser window, as Substack, X or Typeshare shows it. For Substack, switch between Post and Post card (how it looks on your home page and in shared links) at the top right of that window. Desktop / Phone at the top right of Preview & Publish shows it on a computer or on a phone (see "Can I see how my Long Form piece looks on a phone?").
3. The panel on the right. Click a line to open it. Editing in a line switches the preview to where it's used: the subtitle to Substack (or your Typeshare post when Substack is off), a cover to its platform.
   • Subtitle: type one, or click Write using Substack Agent to have it read your piece and write one (once you've written about 200 characters). It shows under the title on Substack, its post card and the email. X Articles have no subtitle.
   • Covers: one for each platform it goes to, in that platform's shape: Substack 3:2, X Article 5:2. Click a cover or Add / Change for Upload an image, Choose from Media, Generate using Designer or Remove cover. Generate using Designer opens a window with three cover options from your piece (Substack's shape, about a minute; each counts toward your AI usage). Click one and choose Use this one, or click More options (optionally saying what to change) and Make 3 more for three new ones. When the piece goes to X, the window closes and the cover you pick is redrawn for X's 5:2 header: the X Article cover shows Making the X version… about a minute until it's ready, and Publish waits for it. Only the one you pick is redrawn. The brand kit menu at the bottom left of the window changes the kit the covers are drawn in. Changing or removing one platform's cover leaves the other alone.
   • Substack (while Substack is on and the piece isn't there yet): how the newsletter goes out. It's saved with this piece.
     • At the top, Publish or Save as draft. Publish (the default) sends it with Post now, Schedule or Add to Queue. Save as draft means Substack only ever gets a draft: the usual buttons stay, your Typeshare post (and X, if it's on) go out or are booked as usual, and Substack gets its draft right away. See "Can I send a Long Form piece to my Substack drafts instead of publishing it?".
     • Email subscribers: on by default, with how many inboxes it reaches. Turn it off to publish on your Substack site and in the app only, with no email. It works the same when you schedule. The number is your publication's email list from Typeshare's daily reading (it shows once Typeshare has read it).
     • Paid subscribers only (only on publications with paid subscriptions): on, free readers see it locked.
     • Tags: the post's tags on Substack, like the Tags field in Substack's own post settings. Click one your publication already has under Your tags, or type a new one and click Add (or press Enter). Up to 10.
   • Complete using Agents: writes the subtitle and draws the covers, whichever are missing, at the same time.
   • X Article titles can be up to 100 characters. With X on and a longer title, nothing can be published: the X tile is greyed out, its preview says "This can't be published to X", and the panel says "X Article titles can be up to 100 characters, and this one is N. Shorten the title to publish, or switch X off." Shorten the title, or switch X off in ··· to publish everywhere else without it.
   • If your X account doesn't have X Premium, X can't be published to: with X on, its preview is greyed out and a note says X Articles need it. Click Learn more and check again for the steps.
   • If you haven't hired the Substack Agent or the Designer, its button reads Hire Substack Agent to write it or Hire Designer to generate: one click hires it and does the job.
   • If an opener or closer has a number Typeshare doesn't have yet (like {new subscribers}), the list of notes above the buttons says so, with Skip for this piece and Edit openers & closers.
4. Publish: click Continue. Nothing is sent yet: the next window asks how it goes out. Pick Add to queue (the next open time in your Long Form queue; opened from a Long Form slot on the Schedule page, that slot), Schedule (pick a time) or Post now, check each place it goes, what happens there and when, then confirm. Continue waits while an agent is still writing or drawing.
   • Long Form queue: its own weekly times, separate from your X and Substack Notes queues (Monday mornings to start; in Queue settings tap the days you want, one long form a day at most, always in the morning). Long forms never take an X post or Note slot.
   • Once it's scheduled: a bar under the header shows when, with Unschedule. The button reads Scheduled for … and opens Post all now, Move to a time… and Unschedule. A piece going to X or Typeshare only can still be edited: it goes out as it is when the time comes. A piece going to Substack is scheduled on Substack itself, so it can't be edited until you unschedule it. See "Why can't I edit a newsletter scheduled to Substack?".
   • Once it's published: the button turns green and reads Published, a Published bar above the piece has View on Typeshare, View on Substack and View on X Article links for each place it went, and a toast shows what it added to your Brain Score. The piece is locked. See "Can I edit a post after it's published?".

A Substack long form is emailed to that publication's subscribers unless you turn off Email subscribers (see "Can I publish a newsletter without emailing it?"). An X Article needs X Premium. A piece sent only to Substack or X still leaves your drafts once it's out.

When you publish now, Substack and X go first, and the piece only goes up on your Typeshare profile once they're all out. If one of them fails, the piece stays a draft on Typeshare: the results window shows why that platform failed, and Typeshare shows "Not published yet, because X didn't go out. Publish it on Typeshare now, or publish again once it's fixed and it goes up here too." with a Publish on Typeshare now button under it. Click it to put the piece on your Typeshare profile right away; X (or Substack) can go later by publishing again. A platform that did go out (Substack, say) stays out, and publishing again only sends what's left.

Yes. In Preview & Publish, click Phone at the top right (next to Desktop). The preview shrinks to a phone's width and shows the piece as Substack's and X's mobile pages lay it out: smaller titles, the text column filling the screen, and Substack's Post card stacked with the cover on top. Click a tile (Substack or X Article) to switch platforms; the phone view stays. Click Desktop to go back to the browser window. Typeshare remembers your choice in this browser the next time you open Preview & Publish. On a phone, the preview is already your phone's width, so there's no switch.

Yes. In Preview & Publish, click ··· and switch Substack and X off for this piece. With both off, the preview shows your Typeshare post and Post now puts it on your Typeshare profile only. If you publish to X too and X fails, click Publish on Typeshare now in the results window: the piece goes up on Typeshare without waiting for X.

Yes. In Preview & Publish, open the Substack line and turn off Email subscribers. The newsletter goes on your Substack site and in the Substack app, and nobody gets an email. It works for Post now, Schedule and Add to Queue, and Typeshare remembers the choice for that piece.

When the piece goes to Substack without a cover image or a subtitle, a yellow note above Continue says "Substack: add a cover image and a subtitle before it goes." Substack shows both on the post's card in readers' inboxes and on your home page, so a post without them stands out less. It's a suggestion: Continue still works. Add them on the Cover and Subtitle lines in the panel beside the preview (the Substack Agent and Designer can write and draw them for you).

In Preview & Publish, click Continue. Nothing is sent yet. The next window has Add to queue, Schedule and Post now at the top (it opens on Add to queue), and lists every place the piece goes, what happens there and when: right away, your queue's next open time, or the time you pick. Switching between the three updates the list. On the Substack row, a label says whether an email goes out:

• Sends to 1,200 subscribers (the number on your list): "Publishes your newsletter", and it's emailed.
• No email: "Publishes on the web and in the app".
• Draft only: "Saves a draft to Substack". Nothing is published or emailed.

Typeshare reads "Posts to your Typeshare profile", and X "Posts your X Article". It follows your choices on the Substack line (Publish or Save as draft, Email subscribers). Nothing goes out until you click the button at the bottom (Add to queue, Schedule or Post now). Cancel takes you back.

Yes. In Preview & Publish, open the Substack line and use Tags at the bottom. Click a tag your publication already has under Your tags (typing narrows them down), or type a new one and click Add (or press Enter). A new tag is made on your Substack when the post goes out. Click × on a tag to remove it. A piece can have up to 10 tags, and Typeshare remembers them for that piece.

Tags go on whether you publish now, schedule, add to the Queue or Save as draft. Removing a tag in Typeshare after the post is already on Substack doesn't take it off there: remove it in Substack's post settings. If Substack won't take a tag, the post still goes out without it.

Your main publication, unless you pick a section. If your Substack has sections (a podcast or a second newsletter), Preview & Publish shows a Section line when you open the Substack line. It starts on your publication's name, which is the main publication. Click it and pick a section to send the piece there instead. Typeshare remembers the choice for that piece and that publication.

The section applies whether you publish now, schedule, add to the Queue or Save as draft. Publications without sections don't show the Section line.

If Substack still refuses to publish a newsletter, the "It didn't post" window shows Substack's reason. Fix that on the draft in your Substack drafts, then click Post now again. Typeshare publishes the same draft, with your fix, instead of making a new one.

Yes. In Preview & Publish, open the Substack line and choose Save as draft, then click Continue and pick Post now, Schedule or Add to queue as usual: your Typeshare post (and X, if it's on) go out then, and Substack gets its draft right away. Nothing is published or emailed on Substack. A bar above the piece then says In your Substack drafts with Open in Substack.

To send later edits there, click Update draft on the In your Substack drafts bar (it works while the piece is scheduled for X too). It updates the same draft and never publishes it. If you edited the draft on Substack since, Typeshare asks first: Replace with this version (your Substack edits are lost) or Keep Substack's (nothing changes). Publishing it from Typeshare later asks the same way.

Substack has no underline, and an underline used to make Substack open the whole draft as empty. Underlined text now goes to Substack as plain text (an underlined link stays a link), so the draft has your full piece. If a draft from before is empty, click Update draft on the In your Substack drafts bar (or click Continue in Preview & Publish and confirm) and choose Replace with this version if Typeshare asks.

Yes, on a publication with paid subscriptions. In the Long Form editor, type / and choose Paywall where the free part should end: it shows as a line reading "Paid subscribers only below this line". On Substack, everything above it is free and everything below is for paid subscribers, the same as Substack's own paywall, and the post is set to paid subscribers. The X Article and your Typeshare post get the whole piece. On a publication without paid subscriptions the paywall is left out. /Subscribe button and /Share button add Substack's Subscribe now and Share buttons, on Substack only.

Substack checks it's really you before a newsletter is published, scheduled or unscheduled from somewhere new, and Typeshare counts as somewhere new. Substack emails a 6-digit code to the email address on your Substack account, the same code its own editor asks for.

When that happens in Typeshare, a Confirm it's you on Substack window opens:

1. Open the email from Substack and copy the 6-digit code.
2. Paste or type it in the window and click Continue. Typeshare finishes what you were doing (publishing, scheduling, moving or unscheduling) on its own. When you're publishing a Long Form piece now, it goes up on your Typeshare profile too once Substack has it, as if both had gone out together.

• No email? Check spam, then click Resend code and use the newest email.
• "That code didn't work": the code was mistyped or an older one. Click Resend code and use the latest email.
• Clicking Cancel stops there: nothing goes to Substack, and the newsletter waits as a draft on Substack until you publish or schedule it again. Doing it again doesn't make a second draft.
• This isn't your Substack login ending, so there's no need to reconnect.

If a scheduled newsletter needs the code while you're away (an agent's newsletter, or one booked before this change), it isn't sent, and nothing is emailed until you're back. The Long Form editor shows "Substack is waiting for you" with Confirm with Substack: click it, enter the code Substack emails you, and the newsletter goes out right away.

When you schedule a long form to Substack (Schedule or Add to Queue), Typeshare hands it to Substack's own scheduler. Substack sends it at that time even when Typeshare and your computer are closed, and it shows in Substack's dashboard under scheduled posts. Substack keeps the version you scheduled, openers and closers filled in as they read then, so the piece can't be edited in Typeshare while it waits: the bar under the header says "Scheduled for (time) on Substack. Unschedule to edit."

To change it:

1. Click Unschedule in the bar (or Scheduled for … > Unschedule; on a phone, Unschedule in the card under the top bar, or the calendar button > Unschedule). It comes off Substack's schedule and becomes a draft again.
2. Edit it.
3. Schedule it again.

Moving it to another time (Move to a time…, or dragging it on the Schedule page) does the same in one step: it comes off Substack's schedule and is booked again at the new time. Post all now sends it right away. Substack may ask for its code for any of these (see "Why does Substack ask me for a code when I publish?").

If Substack already sent it, it can't be unscheduled: Typeshare says so, and it shows as published a few minutes after its time.

If a scheduled long form can't publish on Substack or X when its time comes (your Substack login expired, X refused it, or you don't have X Premium), the Long Form editor shows a red bar under the header: "(Platform) didn't go out at its scheduled time." with the reason. The Schedule page shows it on that day, marked Did not publish. Click × on the bar to dismiss it (the Schedule page mark goes too).

If Substack wanted its code while you were away, the bar instead says "Substack is waiting for you" with Confirm with Substack (see "Why does Substack ask me for a code when I publish?").

The platforms that did go out stay published. Fix the cause (reconnect in Settings > Channels, for example), then open the piece and publish or schedule it again: it only goes to the platform that failed. The red bar goes once it's booked or sent.

If Post now or Schedule fails on a platform while you're there, the results window says which one and why, and the bar isn't used.

If you move a scheduled long form on the Schedule page and one platform can't be booked at the new time, a message names that platform and why. The others move; book the missing one again from the Long Form editor.

"X couldn't take the Article right now (X error 503). Try again in a few minutes." means X's side failed, not your piece or your account. The piece stays a draft on Typeshare until X goes out. Try again in a few minutes; each try counts toward X's daily Article limit.

X lets each account publish 5 Articles a day, and start 10. Every try counts, including tries X refused, so a few failed tries can use up the day. Once they're used, publishing to X shows "X lets an account post 5 Articles a day, and this account has used today's. Try again in about N hours." The piece waits as a draft on Typeshare until X goes out (Substack still gets it); publish again after that time.

X takes Article titles of up to 100 characters. With X on, a longer title greys out the X tile in Preview & Publish, says "X Article titles can be up to 100 characters, and this one is N. Shorten the title to publish, or switch X off.", and the publish buttons stay off, so nothing goes out anywhere. Shorten the title in the editor's title field, or switch X off in ··· to publish to the other platforms without it. Typeshare checks this before asking X, so a long title never uses one of your 5 Articles for the day.

Preview & Publish (top right of the Long Form editor; Publish on a phone) is only greyed out while the piece has no title or no words. Any other reason it can't go out yet, like a title over X's 100-character limit, still opens Preview & Publish, and the window says what to fix. For a long title: close the window, shorten the title at the top of the editor (or switch X off in ···), then open Preview & Publish again.

X only lets accounts with X Premium publish Articles. When Typeshare can't see Premium on your X account, X starts off for new long forms, and if you switch it on (Long form platforms, the ··· above the preview) the Publish window and the platforms window show a warning, and the X tile has an orange !:

• Just upgraded? Publish anyway. X can take a while to show a new Premium subscription, so Typeshare still sends the Article to X.
• No Premium? X rejects the Article. Substack still gets it, the piece waits as a draft on Typeshare, and you can publish again once you have Premium.

Click Learn more and check again for the three steps:

1. Get X Premium on the X account connected to Typeshare (Get Premium on X opens X's page).
2. Give X up to 24 hours to show it. You can still publish in the meantime.
3. Check again: Typeshare asks X whether the account has Premium. If it still doesn't, the button waits a little before you can check again (30 seconds the first time, a little longer each time after).

Text added to the start and end of every long form on Substack and on X (each has its own). Your Typeshare post never gets them. Open them from either place:

• Preview & Publish > Advanced in the panel beside the preview > Edit openers & closers,
• Preview & Publish > ··· > Openers & closers,
• Settings > Writing > Long form writing > Openers & closers > Edit.

Numbers like {subscribers} and {publication} are those of the Substack publication the piece goes to.

• Add numbers that fill in when the piece goes out, like {subscribers}, {new subscribers}, {last post}, {issue number}, {reading time}, {month}, {full date} (the whole date, like October 14, 2026), {x followers} or {read next} (links to your other posts, see below). Hover one to see what it says right now. ({full date} used to be called {date}; openers that still say {date} keep working.)
• In the preview, openers and closers read as this piece will go out: each number is filled in, with a dashed underline. Hover it to see which variable it is. A number Typeshare doesn't have yet stays as written (like {new subscribers}), underlined in orange.
• In the preview, hover an opener or closer: Edit opens Openers & closers (changes apply to every post), Skip leaves it out of this piece only.

Your agents use them too. A newsletter the Substack Agent publishes gets your Substack opener and closer: open the newsletter from the agent's chat and they show above and below the piece, filled in, as they'll read. The text can't be changed there, but hover one: Edit opens Openers & closers (changes apply to every newsletter), and Skip leaves it out of this newsletter only (Add it puts it back). Ask the Substack Agent to change your Substack opener or closer ("make my closer say…", "bold the first line", "link 'subscribe' to my subscribe page"): it can format them (bold, italic, links, lists and more), and you see the change in Settings > Writing > Openers & closers.

Openers and closers are for long forms only: Substack newsletters and X Articles. Substack Notes and X posts (including long ones, up to 4,000 characters with X Premium) never get them. The X Agent can't publish X Articles yet, so it doesn't use or change your X opener and closer; edit those in Settings.

Put Read next in your opener or closer, for example under a heading like "If you enjoyed this, here's what to read next". When the piece goes out, it becomes links to your other posts from your Digital Brain: your Substack newsletters on Substack, your X Articles on X. The piece itself is never one of them.

1. Open Openers & closers (Preview & Publish > ··· > Openers & closers, or Settings > Writing > Long form writing > Openers & closers > Edit).
2. Pick Substack or X Article, click where it should go in the opener or closer, and choose Insert variable > Read next. It goes in as a block on a line of its own (not a word in a sentence), and the block lists the posts it will link.
3. Under Read next, choose how many posts to Show (1, 2 or 3) and which ones: Most related (the posts closest to this piece's topic, topped up with your newest if fewer match) or Most recent (your newest). The block updates as you choose. Most related is picked for each piece when it goes out, so the block shows your newest until then. Substack and X each have their own choice; it starts at 1, most recent.

Each post goes on its own line. On Substack a post link on its own line becomes a post card (cover, title, the start of the post), and Preview & Publish shows the cards as they'll look. If your Digital Brain has none of your posts on that platform yet, Read next is left out. To get your Substack newsletters and X Articles in, connect Substack and X so they import into your Digital Brain.

Yes. In the Atomic Essay's publish window, pick Substack. The essay goes out as a Note on your Substack profile: the image, with the caption you type in the "Add some post text for Substack..." box above it (up to 4,000 characters, or leave it empty to post just the image). Click into that box to see a preview of the Note on the left. It can be published now or scheduled, like the other platforms. Substack needs to be connected first in Settings > Channels.

In the Long Form editor:

• Add a link: select the words, click the link icon in the menu that appears, paste the address and press Enter.
• Change a link: select the linked words. A small link menu shows the Link text and the address. Change either one and press Enter (or click the check mark). The words change and the link stays.
• Remove a link: select the linked words and click the trash icon in the link menu. The words stay as plain text.

Short-form posts (X, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky, Substack Notes) don't have link text: paste the address into the post and the platform shows it as a link.

Not inside the essay. An Atomic Essay or Deck goes out as images (a Deck goes to LinkedIn as a swipeable PDF), and nothing in an image or that PDF can be clicked, so the text-formatting menu in that editor has no link icon.

To share a link with it, put the address in the post text when you publish: in the publish window, type it in each platform's "Add some post text for…" box. The platform shows it as a clickable link next to the image. For a piece where links have to be clickable inside the text, write it as a Long Form piece.

Yes. In the Atomic Essay or Deck editor, add a photo in any of these ways:

• Click where you want it, type / and pick Image ("Upload a photo or graphic"), then choose the file.
• Drag a photo from your computer onto the essay or card.
• Copy a photo and paste it in.

Click the photo to show a size slider and make it bigger or smaller. JPEG, PNG and WebP files up to 30 MB work, and each essay or Deck card takes up to 12 images.

An Atomic Essay is one image, so a big photo leaves less room for text and the text gets smaller to fit. If it looks cramped, shrink the photo or cut a few lines. If a card says "This card is full. Make some room before adding an image.", remove some text or an image first.

Short-form posts add photos with the Attach media button instead.

A Deck card with the Photo layout has its own spot for a picture. Click Upload a photo on the card to add one. Once it's there, hover the card to see the buttons at the top right of the photo:

• Replace uploads a different photo.
• The pictures icon (Pick from Media library) swaps in one from your Media library.
• × (Remove the photo) takes it off, and Upload a photo comes back.

To choose which part of the photo shows, drag the photo itself: it slides inside its spot ("Drag to reposition"). When the photo sits behind the text (Photo goes: Behind), click Reposition first, drag, then click Done. The export and the published post crop the photo the same way. A new photo starts centred again. On a phone or tablet the buttons are always showing.

Use the Full image layout. It draws only your picture, filling the whole card to every edge: no padding, header, byline, page counter or swipe cue. It's for slides you designed somewhere else (in your own fonts and layouts) and saved as images.

1. Open the Deck and click the card you want (or click Add a page at the bottom for a new one).
2. Click the palette icon at the top right to open Theme (on a phone, open the ··· menu and choose Theme). Under Layout, choose Full image.
3. On the card, click Upload images and choose one or more JPEG, PNG or WebP files. The first fills that card; each extra picture gets a Full image card of its own right after it, in the order you picked them. A Deck holds up to 20 cards, so pictures past that are left out.
4. To use a picture from your Media library instead, open Theme: the Image box under Details has Upload and Library.

The picture is cropped to the card's shape, so set Aspect ratio under Layout to match your slides (Portrait is 4:5, 1080 × 1350; Square is 1080 × 1080; Story is 9:16; Landscape is 16:9). If they don't match, drag the picture to choose which part shows ("Drag to reposition"). Hover the card for Replace, the pictures icon (Pick from Media library) and × (Remove the photo). The export and the published post look exactly like the card.

A Full image card has no text, so Text size and Text alignment don't show in Theme for it. Switch the card back to another layout and any text it had comes back. To write on top of the picture, see "How do I put text on top of a full-page photo in a Deck?".

Use the Photo layout with the photo behind the text. The photo fills the whole card under a dark shade, and your text sits on top in white.

1. Open the Deck, click the card, and click the palette icon at the top right to open Theme (on a phone, open the ··· menu and choose Theme).
2. Under Layout, choose Photo. Under Details, set Photo goes to Behind.
3. Add the photo with Upload a photo on the card, or Upload / Library in the Photo box under Details, then type your text on the card.

Already have a Full image card? Under Details in Theme, click Add text on top. The card switches to Photo with the photo Behind, keeping the same picture and the part you dragged into view.

To make the text easier (or the photo brighter), drag the Darken photo slider under Details: 0% shows the photo as it is, up to 90% for nearly black. It starts at 45%. The slider only shows while Photo goes is Behind. The Photo layout comes in Portrait and Square.

Not yet. Save each page of the PDF as an image (PNG or JPEG) instead, then upload them all at once on a Full image card (see "How do I make a Deck card that is just my own image, edge to edge?"). Each image becomes one card, in order.

You can see this when you add a photo to a post, an Atomic Essay or Deck card, or an agent chat. It means the file couldn't be read at all, so it was never uploaded, which usually means the file is damaged. Open it in Preview or Photos, export it as a JPEG or PNG, and add it again.

An iPhone photo that is really HEIC but named .jpg or .jpeg is fine: Typeshare turns it into a JPEG as it uploads. The first HEIC photo can take a few seconds longer while that happens.

You can see this when you add a photo to an Atomic Essay or Deck card, usually on an Android phone or tablet. The photo was picked, but the device would not let the browser read it, so it was never uploaded. It happens most with a photo that lives in Google Photos, Drive or another cloud app and isn't saved on the device. Save a copy to the device (in Google Photos, open it and choose Download), then click Upload a photo or Replace and choose it again.

Classic Typeshare had a Presets gallery in the Atomic Essay editor. The new Typeshare doesn't have that gallery. An Atomic Essay's look comes from its brand instead:

1. Open the Atomic Essay and click the palette icon at the top right to open Theme (on a phone, open the ··· menu and choose Theme).
2. Under Brand, open the dropdown. It lists your own brands and the ready-made ones marked preset (Quiet Grid, Editorial, Signal, Paper Mono and Midnight). Pick one and the essay changes straight away.
3. To make your own style, click + (New brand) next to the dropdown and choose the fonts and colours, then click Create brand. To change a brand you made, pick it and click the pencil (Edit brand). Presets can't be edited, but + starts a new brand from the one you have picked.

Header, Footer and Details (text alignment and byline) in the same panel change the rest of the card. For other layouts (a tweet-style card, Apple Notes, quotes, lists, big numbers, photos), use a Deck: its Theme panel has a Layout choice for each card.

A bullet holding a second paragraph used to get a second bullet in the exported and published image, even though the editor showed one. This is fixed: the second paragraph now sits under the first, with no bullet of its own, the same as in the editor. If an image you exported or published before the fix has the extra bullet, export or publish it again.

An Atomic Essay is one image, so the text gets smaller as you write more to keep it all on the image. It's meant for short essays: if the text is getting hard to read, cut it down, or move it to a Long Form piece or a Deck (several pages).

You can also set the size yourself: click the palette icon at the top right (on a phone, ··· > Theme) and pick a Body Font Size, from Very Small up to Extra Large. A bigger size on a long essay makes the image taller; see the next question for when it gets too tall for X.

On Auto size, an Atomic Essay image grows taller as you write. Once it's taller than 4:3 (height to width), a note under the card says Taller than X shows in the timeline: readers may need to tap to see it all. Shorten the essay or lower the text size in the Theme panel. The X preview in Publish shows a note too. It's only a warning: you can still publish. To fit the timeline, cut the essay down or make the text smaller in Theme > Text size. Short essays read best and tend to get more engagement on X.

There's no word limit on the essay itself. What X limits is the post text (the words above the image) and the image's size:

• "Your X post text is over 280 characters": the text you typed for X in the publish window is too long. X counts emoji and some symbols as two characters. Shorten it, or leave it empty to post just the image. With X Premium the limit is 4,000, for Atomic Essays and Decks too; if you have Premium and still see 280, open the X row in Settings > Channels and check that X Premium says Active (see "How do I get X Premium working with Typeshare?").
• "This essay's image is too large for X": the essay image came out bigger than X takes. Open Theme (the palette icon at the top right, or ··· > Theme on a phone) and make the text smaller (Text size, or Body Font Size on older essays), or shorten the essay, then publish again.

An Atomic Essay doesn't need post text on X: leave it empty to post just the image. If it went to other platforms but not X, click the green Published button and choose Retry or add a platform to send it to X.

When a Long Form piece goes out as a Substack newsletter, Typeshare reads its numbers from your Substack dashboard, the same ones on the post's Stats page in Substack. They update for the first week after it's sent.

In the Digital Brain, click the post and look at its performance to see:

• Views, Likes and Replies (comments), with the Substack row in the platform table.
• Sent, Open rate, Opens, Click rate, Clicks and Shares. Open rate and click rate show your publication's average next to them.
• New subscribers, Paid and Unsubscribes that the post brought in.
• Views from: where readers came from, such as Email, Substack or another site.

Substack Notes show views, likes, replies and restacks instead.

The numbers come through your Substack login. If Substack needs reconnecting, they pause until you reconnect in Settings > Channels.

Typeshare draws an Atomic Essay or Deck image on its servers when you click Generate Image in the publish window or Export in the ··· menu. If the drawing doesn't finish in time, you see "Rendering took too long. Try again." Click the button again. If it keeps happening, report it (see "How do I report a problem?" in the getting help docs).

The word count is in the bottom-left corner of the Long Form editor, with the minutes it takes to read. In full screen it shows when you move the mouse. It isn't shown on phones.

Yes. Like Long Form, an Atomic Essay shows its word count in the bottom-left corner of the editor, updated as you type. It counts every word on the essay, including the title. It isn't shown on phones, and Decks don't have one.

Yes. On the Write page, click Ideas (top right) to open "Ideas from your Digital Brain". On a phone, tap Need an idea?. Each idea card lets you pick a format, then click Write to start a draft from it (or Open draft if you already started one). When a draft was started from an idea, the editor shows that idea below your post so you can refer to it. For how ideas are made, see the Digital Brain help.