Plan Week Substack Note (Content Strategist — Substack Notes)

Substack Notes' sibling to /plan-week-x, simplified — Notes are more conversational/evergreen and less tied to a specific optimal posting window than X or LinkedIn, so day selection matters less than variety and pacing across the week.

Arguments

• week (optional) — same default rule as /plan-week.
• target_count (optional) — default 3.

Process

1. Load the candidate pool, filtered to this platform

Read Post-Ideas/ for ideas with substack-note in platforms, status: candidate (or already selected for another platform but not yet claimed by this one).

2. Check recent history for fatigue

Scan Content-Learnings/content-index.md filtered to platform: substack-note for the prior ~2 weeks, same window as /plan-week.

3. Pick the days

Read Content-Learnings/playbook-substack.md's Notes section for an evidenced day rule first. Otherwise spread the target_count slots across the week with reasonable gaps (don't cluster all 3 on consecutive days by default) — there's no research-backed "best time" claim to make for this format yet, so say plainly this is just even spacing, not an optimized schedule.

4. Match ideas to slots

Same tie-breaking as /plan-week: best fit, rank_score as tiebreaker. Require at least 2 distinct categories across the week's Notes, same variety rule.

5. Commit the assignment

Append {platform: substack-note, week: <ISO week>, date: <date>} to the idea's platform_schedule. Advance status to selected if unclaimed.

6. Report

A table: date | idea (topic) | category | rank_score, with unfilled slots called out plainly.

Hard rules

• Never assign more than target_count (default 3) in one week.
• Never force the count — fewer filled slots is the correct outcome when the pool doesn't support more.
• Never draft note text here.