Frequently asked questions

Because having something worth saying isn't much use if the right people never find it. Notems gives you a place to publish what you know, show what you do, and connect your work with people who have a reason to care about it.

That's the idea. Notems isn't just a place to publish. We want to help good work travel — by helping identify the people, organizations, communities, and websites that are naturally aligned with what you've created.

Publish things worth reading. Real expertise is difficult to fake. A thoughtful Notem can show what you know far better than another profile, advertisement, or claim that you're an expert.

Start with what you care about, not with collecting followers. Every Notem can reach a different group of people who care about that particular subject. Those connections can lead to readers, collaborators, customers, students, colleagues, fans — and other people who want to share your work.

That's up to you and what you have to offer, but Notems is designed to help you put your knowledge, products, services, events, and other work in front of people who may genuinely care about them. You might find a customer, a student, a client, a gig, or a buyer for something you've created. Notems may also provide optional commerce tools that make those transactions easier.

Joining Notems is free. Writing, publishing, reading, and sharing are free.

Creating a member website, publishing, and promoting services and events are free. Optional digital-product hosting costs $9/month for 2 GB, $16/month for 5 GB, or $25/month for 20 GB. Sellers remain responsible for applicable payment-provider fees. Each plan includes a monthly video streaming allowance, and there are no automatic overage charges. See our Fees page.

Your viewers never pay for streaming, and Notems never charges you automatically. When your monthly included allowance and any purchased streaming are used up, new plays of your videos pause and viewers see a short “temporarily unavailable” message. Playback resumes when the allowance renews on the 1st of the month or when you add an optional prepaid pack: 25 GB for $2.99, 100 GB for $5.99, or 250 GB for $9.99. Packs are one-time PayPal purchases, do not renew automatically, and expire 12 months after purchase. The rest of Notems stays available. See our Fees and Refunds pages.

Not really. You can buy and sell on notems, but that's where the resemblance ends. Notems exists for real insight — honest writing, real expertise, ideas worth sharing — alongside whatever you're selling, not instead of it.

Yes. Physical goods and services can be listed and sold. Selling hosted digital downloads requires an optional monthly digital-store plan. Payment providers may charge their own transaction and refund fees. See our Fees page.

That's been our experience. Genuine, well-written content on notems tends to get discovered more easily than the same content posted on a brand-new personal site with no existing authority.

You don't need to repost a listing just to keep it visible. Update it whenever the information changes. Notems uses things like location, category, title, and tags to help people find relevant listings.

Yes, Notems may display advertisements and sponsorships on member websites and Notems pages. Advertising helps support free hosting and publishing. We aim to keep placements restrained so readers can focus on your work. Advertising revenue belongs to Notems; a paid digital-store plan does not automatically remove ads.

No. If you received an invitation from us, it's because we did our own research and thought you'd be a genuine fit — not because we accessed your contacts. We don't send spam, and we won't pretend your contacts are potential members without your involvement. If you like notems, we'd rather you simply tell people yourself.

A couple of common causes: you may have reached your account's current posting limit, or a required field is missing — check for a red error message next to any incomplete field.

Every member account (apart from shoppers) gets a notems page at its own address — notems.com/yourname. It's unique to you and tied to your display name.

Yes. Once it's set, avoid changing it — search engines associate that name with your page over time, and changing it can disrupt how easily you're found.