Bloggers and writers! Which tool(s) are you using to draft and write your posts or articles? And how do you keep track of the status of a piece (idea/draft/edited/published etc.)? #blogging#writing
@matthiasott I've tried everything under the sun. Nothing beats plain text files formatted in markdown, using my favourite text editor (SublimeText).
Files are tagged and organised into folders. They start their lives in "drafts" and then move into the most relevant folder when I publish or abandon them.
Publishing is just dumping the text into the WordPress editor and cleaning up the formatting. (I like the process of converting markdown manually).
@matthiasott I rarely write outside of the web interface. Heck, I don't even have drafts lingering in my blog. I write, I hit publish and update if needed. Since I syndicate in the the fediverse this triggers lots of 'updated' notifications on those posts, which may annoy some.
But I rarely write longform posts with lots of research etc pp… I guess then I would need some other form of organisation in the writing process :)
@matthiasott Tried a bunch of apps and methods, but Apple Notes with tags is good enough for me up to the point of publishing. Published, final version is the HTML in my site’s git repository.
@matthiasott I have used MacDown for years, but now I’m using VSCode. Articles start their life in a "drafts" folder, and sometimes move to the "articles" one. Other content types are published immediately.
For my daughter’s blog, I recently tried Decap CMS (formerly Netlify CMS), and activated the editorial workflow. You can see a screenshot of the kanban here: https://jamstack.org/headless-cms/decap-cms/
(couldn’t find it on Decap CMS own website 🤷♂️)
@matthiasott@davatron5000 You could make a Kanban view in IA Writer with a custom template using CSS grid. Pull in multiple content blocks to each column based on hashtag (idea, outline, draft, etc) that you include in the metadata of your source file. No drag / drop, but would give a nice overview of content and states. Out of the box Kanban view by IA Writer would be way better though because you’d get the view at the global app level vs the document / template level. cc: @ia
@matthiasott I use ia writer for writing. I’ve been using Apple Notes for drafting ideas and have a folder of them ready to revisit when I have the time/inclination to write a full post.
@matthiasott Everything happens in @drafts. Ideas are born there, some are expanded, some even get published. Writing, editing, and publishing, all with Drafts.
@matthiasott initial drafting in Bear, then copy markdown into Nova for final editing, adding figures, etc. I have a #toblog tag in Bear for ideas and a #draft tag for drafts. I use the string tk liberally in my drafts to remind myself to add things like links and other final touches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_come_(publishing))
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