Are.na

Buttondown lets you connect your Are.na account to your newsletter. This uses our automations feature to automatically share your newsletters to your Are.na channels.

Here's how to connect your Are.na account to Buttondown:

1. In Buttondown, navigate to Settings and click Integrations.
2. Find the "Are.na" integration option and click Connect. Are.na opens.
3. Authorize Buttondown to post to your channels.

After you connect your Are.na account, a "Connected to Are.na" message displays on the Integrations page.

To share your newsletters to Are.na, you can create an automation that posts your newsletters to an Are.na channel whenever you send them. To do this, create a new Automation, or just click the Automation banner below:

The simplest and most common use case is to create an automation that posts your newsletters to an Are.na channel whenever you send them. Here's how:

1. Navigate to the Automations page and click New. The "New automation" panel opens.
2. (Optional) Give your automation a human-readable "Name."
3. Set the Trigger to when an email is sent.
4. Set the Action to Create an Are.na post.
5. Enter your Are.na channel slug in the "Channel slug" field.
6. (Optional) Customize the message content. If you leave this blank, Buttondown will use the email content and URL.
7. Click Save changes.

To enable the new automation, either click Unpause in the automation panel, or click to enable the automation's toggle in the Automations page.

Your channel slug is the part of the URL after your username. For example, in https://www.are.na/buttondown/mood-vy0yu8sp4ba, the channel slug is mood-vy0yu8sp4ba.

Yes, through template variables! These variables are supported:

• email
• sub-variables of email (email.subject, etc)
• email_url

Are.na supports both text and links. When you share your newsletter via the automation, it will be posted as text content along with a link to your newsletter.