How to find notes apps Instagram creators

I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.

The person: US English, 24-36, already bounced off Notion they use as a graveyard and Roam they felt dumb inside of, watches ‘my second brain is a junk drawer’ and Apple-Notes-is-enough videos on the train. They watch second-brain collapse, ‘I built a system I do not open’, Apple Notes defense, PKM-shame. They already tried Notion as a graveyard, Roam they felt dumb inside of, and Apple Notes they keep returning to in meetings. Skip the 80k PKM YouTuber whose last 15 videos are the same PARA recap with a new sponsor.

Instagram notes is aesthetic desk carousels; TikTok on the train is the junk-drawer rant. Email the rant.

What I actually do on Instagram

Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would download this. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.

Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.

Example I want to see: someone opening a Notion workspace with 400 empty pages to find one address. Signal: the same junk-drawer face two commutes in a row.

I prefer email. The contact is usually in a bio under a second-brain cohort; say this is an app inbox demo. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.

Reels vs FYP

TikTok’s For You is a night session for second-brain collapse, ‘I built a system I do not open’, Apple Notes defense, PKM-shame. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram notes is aesthetic desk carousels; TikTok on the train is the junk-drawer rant. Email the rant.

Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.

Like a Zettelkasten graph and the phone will leave Apple-Notes-is-enough people. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.

The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/notes-apps.

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