How to Navigate Your Vocal Dropdown Menu

Let's Get Started!

Have you found the dropdown menu yet? There are many tools hidden here that can help you make the most of your Vocal experience!

First though- I recommend opening Vocal in another window so you can follow and click along as you read this article.

Okay, now start by looking for your profile image or photo in the top right corner.

Click that little arrow beside it. I highlighted it for you in the photo above so you can see what I'm talking about... yep, that tiny little arrow. Yes! Got it.

Dropdown Menu

From here you can easily view your profile, create a new story, view your previously published stories as well as submitted stories and even your drafts, study your Vocal stats page and see which stories are performing best, check out your wallet, and even see who you have subscribed to and view their recent publications. There is also access to a settings page and resources option which can help you navigate Vocal and personalize your experience a bit.

You can probably click through these on your own and figure it out but I'm a show me and tell me person, so I'll show you a few of these too and highlight my favorite features.

Your Stories

Under the Stories part of the dropdown menu, you'll see a page like this one. I like to be able to look at my Published stories tab here to check which stories were submitted to challenges. See those little ribbon icons beside where it says "Microfiction Magic"? That tells me that these stories were successfully entered into that challenge.

Draft, obviously, is where your works in progress live until submitted. Once you've submitted them, they will move to the Submitted tab, and once published, yep, you guessed it! Under the Published tab.

Stats

The Stats page is really fun! You can see how many subscribers you have, any active pledges, total reads, reads in the last 30 days, and even how much that has changed compared to the previous 30 days. This can help you figure out if what you are posting is attracting and keeping readers! The last 30 days view shows you how many reads you generated each day. This helps me by showing me that on the day I publish, I typically get the most reads but that I also get a boost in reads on the days I share my link on Facebook or Instagram.

You can also scroll down to see how many hearts and reads each of your stories has received as well as how much $ you've made so far from those reads.

Wallet

Speaking of $, the Wallet section tells you in detail what your earnings are, your current balance info, and how much you have made from tips or pledges.

Your Subscriptions

The Your Subscriptions option in the dropdown menu is one of my favorites. I often miss stories in my notifications but I can always go here to see if I have missed anything from authors I am subscribed to on Vocal.

You'll see a Creators tab and a Your Feed tab.

The Creators tab shows you a list of all the people you subscribe to and how recently they have published something.

The Your Feed tab shows you all of the publications from all of those authors in your subscriptions and you can scroll through and click to be redirected to those stories.

Stories You Liked

The Stories You Liked page is just that..ALL of the stories you have ever clicked the heart for on Vocal. You can revisit them easily through this page. Wow! I have liked a lot of stories! How about you?

Settings

The Settings page is pretty straightforward. You can see your Vocal+ subscription information, access Stripe, Enable (or disable) pledges if you are a Vocal+ member, and change your comments settings. I like to keep my comment email notifications turned off because I get a lot of notifications already. You can also change your password from here or even delete your account.

Resources

There are many options here on the Resources page, click through to find recent articles from the Vocal team or click any of the tabs there to see what is available.

Sign Out

The last option under your dropdown is the Sign Out feature... if you are on a shared computer this is probably a good idea. Otherwise, just stay signed in so you don't miss anything!

Thanks for reading!