Recycle Evergreen Content Without Posting The Same Note Twice

The Evergreen tab sorts your saved items by a simple engagement score. A like counts once, a comment counts twice and a restack counts three times, because a reader who replies or reshares did more than one who tapped a heart. When two items tie, the more recently published one comes first. The item at the top is marked Top performer.

Here is what that looks like in my own library, shown above. My top three saved notes have 12 likes and 3 comments, 12 likes and 3 comments, and 10 likes and 3 comments, so they score 18, 18 and 16. The two 18s tie: a note on X about becoming less available to repetitive work, from October 13, and a Substack note about one of my least-viewed articles, from October 5. The more recent one gets the Top performer badge. None of them has a restack yet, which tells me the conversations happened in replies rather than reshares.

The score only uses what was saved with each item. Narrareach does not pull fresh numbers into the library on its own, and items saved without metrics, such as a custom template you typed yourself, sort below the ones that have them. If you want the full picture of how a note did over time, Substack analytics in Narrareach is the place to look before you decide what belongs here.

Each saved card has a field called Why the format works. Type a short label, up to 120 characters, such as contrarian hook plus list, and save it. A month from now you will not remember why a note took off, but the label will tell you, and it makes patterns easy to spot when four of your top cards share the same structure.

The four default examples at the bottom of the tab show what good labels look like. They are Substack note formats generalized from high-engagement notes, each with a label such as repeatable series plus focused audience invitation. You can open any of them with Use this format even before you have saved anything of your own.

Add a template opens a picker with Narrareach's built-in note templates, sorted by the same engagement score and searchable by name or platform. Pick one and it joins your library as a Template card. You can also write a custom template with your own title and text, which is useful for a format you know works but have not posted through Narrareach.

Templates and published notes sit side by side, so the library becomes a short list of starting points you trust. When a format stops earning replies, Remove from Evergreen takes it off the shelf. The original note or template is not changed or deleted.

Reuse in editor opens the note in the composer as a new draft. The text is filled in and the platform it came from is selected, so a LinkedIn post opens ready for LinkedIn and a Substack note opens for Substack. From there you rewrite it: a new opening line, a newer example, a different question at the end. Nothing is published until you choose to post or schedule it.

Once the new version reads well, schedule Substack Notes the same way you schedule anything else in Narrareach and pick a slot a few weeks after the original. If the winner was a long article rather than a note, you can turn Substack articles into Notes and save the best of those to Evergreen too.