Markdown to Medium

Create Medium posts from Markdown in a snap

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Create Medium posts from Markdown in a snap

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Opengeni

I just asked about this on the hemmingway prodhunt the other day. @handythinks suggested that ulyssis was able to do this.

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9yr ago

Markdown to Medium

Maker

@eonpilot @handythinks there are other things out there that will let you save markdown posts to a gist. The main thing I really wanted was syntax highlighting on Medium which currently has no great solution. For the type of posts that I wanted to write, the non-syntax-highlighted code blocks didn't cut it.

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9yr ago

Opengeni

@jacobbennett @handythinks Markdown is so fast compared to formatting via GUI. Solving Code blocks highlighting was the last piece of the puzzle I guess. I don't personally add my blog posts to gists. But I guess converting to Medium requires a gist as there was already infrastructure that supported this? Ideally one would have a repo on github with a bunch of markdown .md files that was synced to Medium on file change. For easy editing typos and updating articles. This is the main pain point for me with Medium. Keeping articles up to date. As I usually write about tech which often changes fast.

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9yr ago

Markdown to Medium

Maker

@eonpilot @handythinks I suppose the nice thing is that YOU don't have to put your markdown files into gists with this tool, it does it for you! :) As far as updating posts from existing gists OR a repo, I suppose that could be possible if you were also using the Medium API to push posts, but would be fraught with formatting hiccups if you were just pushing them straight in without taking a look yourself first. I don't think Medium would have anything like that at the top of their list with their recent announcements of layoffs either :( Don't think that Developers are their target audience and as such, we have to invent the tools we want to use when it comes to this stuff.

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9yr ago

Opengeni

@jacobbennett @handythinks wow, seems like you know your stuff. I'll definitly give it a try. For me jekyll github blogs is the solution. Although I envy mediums network effect. I use an applescript that auto uploads .md files to github triggered by file change. Also downloads if remote changes. Really interested in this space though.

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9yr ago

Alloy Credit Underwriting

@jacobbennett any chance the code is open source? I would love love love to make an extension for blankslate.io that let's me publish my markdown => Medium with just a click. Although I guess worst case I can just take the markdown and bring it over to this site and then publish!

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9yr ago

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Hunter

This is a dream come true for me. Makes writing technical posts on Medium so much easier. Well done Jacob!

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9yr ago

Markdown to Medium

Maker

@tyvdh Thanks Tyler! So glad it has helped. After converting a single post from markdown into medium, I vowed never to do it again manually 🙌 Thus MarkdownToMedium.com was born.

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9yr ago

Well this is a pretty awesome looking tool. I wonder if WordPress is on the roadmap? We usually publish medium through WP first.

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9yr ago

@handythinks but does it work on mobile tho? Not on my iPhone.

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9yr ago

Hey, @jacobbennett, have you ever considered extending this tool to support an entire git repository? I think it would be nice to have medium post sync with a git repo instead of each individual gists. Thoughts?

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7yr ago

Wow - just tested it and what an impressively simple interface. Also worth noting it has another app that goes the other direction: Medium to Markdown extension for Chrome - https://chrome.google.com/websto... The cycle is complete!

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9yr ago

Opengeni

Kudos for solving codeblocks. Was it tricky?

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9yr ago

Markdown to Medium

Maker

@eonpilot not too bad really. Using a nice little library that does Markdown codeblock parsing. Just had to grab the bits out, do best to guess type of file, then hit the same endpoint to create "sub-gists" if you will. Injecting those gist urls back into the post in place of the code blocks was a bit more tricky though yes.

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9yr ago

@jacobbennett @eonpilot well done.

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