John Pavlus
July 29, 2016
Simple & convenient cross-posting to Medium
I recently transplanted my personal blog from Wordpress over to Blot.im, a paid blogging platform that uses Dropbox and {your preferred text editor} instead of a CMS. I can’t recommend it heartily enough.
Blot’s charmingly
British tutorial.
Now that I can compose and publish posts without ever leaving the friendly confines of iA Writer (my preferred text editor), another thought occurs to me:
iA Writer 3 now lets you publish posts directly into Medium (as Drafts). Which means that I can now cross-post blog entries to Blot and Medium—still without leaving iA Writer!
This makes me very happy. iA Writer is such a perfect writing environment that it makes me want to write more often just so I can luxuriate in its sublime typography and crystalline UI. But if I had to pick a second-favorite text editor, it would probably be Medium. It’s just a bonus that people actually read stuff that gets published there (no offense, Blot).
So, this is looking like the best of both worlds. I’ll try it for a while and see how it feels.
iA Writer’s gorgeous
UX film.
(Here’s the post on Medium. Feel free to give it lots of ❤︎’s.)