The Article To Substack Notes Prompt: Turn Your Tech Articles Into Endless Social Media Content

Use AI to turn every tech article you've written into four different social media posts

Jul 24, 2025

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You shouldn't have to spend another hour promoting content you already spent days writing.

Technical writing is time-consuming enough without having to become a social media expert afterward. You've already invested hours researching, writing, and polishing your article - now you're supposed to craft engaging short-form posts and figure out what works on each platform? Most developers hate this part of content creation and skip promotion entirely, which means their best work gets buried.

This AI prompt eliminates the social media headache by converting your finished articles into four different Substack notes. Each note uses a different style and format, so you get variety without learning copywriting or spending time on platforms you don't enjoy.

Let me first explain what this prompt does and why it is so effective.

The AI Prompt That Handles Your Content Promotion in Under a Minute

You don't need to love social media to use it for your tech content - I'm certainly not the biggest fan.

Most developers avoid social platforms entirely, but here's the reality: social media promotion is still key for your tech content to reach more readers. Your best articles won't find their audience if you don't promote them somewhere. The trick is automating the process so you don't have to become a social media expert.

This prompt focuses on Substack, but you can easily adjust it to work for other platforms that favor short content, like X (Twitter). The core approach works anywhere you need to condense long-form content into bite-sized posts.

Four formats that make the reader stop scrolling

The prompt creates notes in four different styles, each designed to hook the reader and make them click on your profile:

The Explainer Format summarizes the article’s key insights into a series of direct, benefit-focused statements. It uses emphasis and emojis to break up long sections of text so readers don’t lose attention.
The Overview Format distills your article's core insight into a direct, benefit-focused statement. It tells readers exactly what they'll gain by reading your full piece.
The Listicle Format promises a specific outcome, then generates a list of actionable steps to achieve that outcome. People love lists because they're tangible, easy to scan, and feel immediately useful.
The One-Sentence Format captures your article's most powerful insight into a single sentence. This works great for platforms where brevity gets more engagement.

The math that makes this AI prompt worth your time

Here's how the timing works out in your favor.

If you publish two articles per week, you get eight social media posts from this prompt. Even if you post daily, you’ll still have one short-form post in the bank. Your readers see consistent activity without you having to think about it.

Your total social media investment becomes less than 10 minutes per week.

This includes creating posts with AI, refining them, and publishing them. Compare that to the hours you'd spend trying to write engaging social posts from scratch.

AI automates this entirely once you have your article ready.

The Article To Substack Notes Prompt In Action

I’ll give you the prompt in a minute, but first, I want to show the output you can expect.

After you paste the prompt into Claude or ChatGPT, it'll ask you to upload your article in Markdown form:

I used my From Keyword to Tech Article Outline: This AI Prompt Kills Writer's Block article. Here are the Substack notes it generated:

I’d split the “Explainer Format” output into even shorter paragraphs. Besides that, you have 4 days of social media content ready.

I also tested the prompt on another recent article - 3 Reasons Why Every Tech Professional Should Start Writing Online Right Now:

I’ll definitely publish these soon on my profile:

And now, let me show you the prompt.