Since opening The Seraphim last July, we’ve posted just over 100 “Notes” (i.e., interesting blurbs which aren’t developed into full-length articles), and these are contained in the “Notes” section located at the top of the homepage banner.
For one reason or another, the Notes just don’t generate as much interest as regular articles. I’d be interested in hearing your speculations on why that might be, as it seems counterintuitive to me (i.e., +Williamson used to keep most of his Eleison Comments to one page precisely because he believed nobody read books or articles anymore. Most people just don’t have the patience and attention span).
Of the 100+ notes published in the last year, only five have generated more that 1,000 hits (i.e., a significantly lower ratio than the articles).
To draw some attention to this neglected section, I post the top 5 most viewed Notes (in reverse order), and I have to admit I would not have thought ANY of these would have made such a list, but here you go:
Pope St. Pius V’s Response to Sodomites
9/7/25
1,006 views
1/11/26
1.334 views
“Taming the Tongue’s Deadly Power in Marriage: How Husbands and Wives Wound Each Other with Words”
7/19/26
1,530 Views
Anonymous Response of “Abenader” to The Remnant Regarding the term “Sedevacantism”
11/20/25
1,572 Views
My 1 Year-Old Refuting Conciliar Ecclesiology
3/26/26
1.839 Views
I think its probably a function of the available substack notification options for subscribed substacks. I get most of my notifications through email notification but that option appears to be available for Articles only and not Notes. An RSS feed for site changes might work for those using a news reader like Feedly. Otherwise picking up Notes is - for me - a hit and miss affair dependant upon the Substack algorithm handling my perceived preferences and my rare visits to Home pages and their menus - FWIW
I think that the neglected notes get the lesser attention due to not having the accompanying audio option available unlike the longer articles produced via the post section which ajjow the audio option. These can be listened to while ohe goes aboit their manual chores. Even though the AI voices aren't perfect they do have the time saving benefit when other things require attention at the same time. The good bishop Williamson would probably have produced longer articles if he were with us today if je could cope with AI voice reading St as Street and Mass as Massachusetts