Blogging is a creative art. We need ideas, motivation, time, and skill to bring our thoughts to reality to present them to our readers. A set of th...
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Excellent post. I use only two tools. Actually, three.
1) Google Docs - Create draft text.
1.1) Grammarly extension - It integrates well with google docs and provides all its goodies.
2) VSCode - I copy over the final draft to vscode. Manually port it to Markdown which is not a lot of effort. Once ready, I push it to GitHub. Netlify is set up to automatically build Hugo site and publish.
Awesome, thanks for making a list grow, Abhishek!
Would you recommend HashNode as a blogging platform over Dev.to ?
Great question Abdulcelil.
Here are my personal thoughts:
I would recommend Hashnode as it provides excellent tools and a productive environment for bloggers. You get a dev domain for free, and if you want(I feel you must), you can map it to any custom domain of your choice. It is where you get the complete freedom of an independent blogger owning a blog on own domain.
I have mentioned a few tools in this article. As a blogger, you may need a bit more support than just content creation. Be it analytics, newsletter, ability to customize your blog/articles, and many more features may help many of your motivating factors. So, it would be best if you gave it a try.
Coming to the community & support,
Hashnodeis comparatively new, anddev.tohas a more significant community and user base. I have found the Hashnode community is very supportive of the content creators who just getting started.I usually publish my articles on my Hashnode powered blog and republish them elsewhere, including dev.to. Dev.to has a great community, and we don't want to miss the opportunity to share and learn from here.
Theoretically, you could buy any domain and redirect it to your DEV account too.
That's right.
Thanks for the detailed answer
Nice collection of tools!
Can I ask why you moved from Trello to Notion? And do you prefer Notion since switching?
Hi Fum,
First of all, I love Trello. However, the reason I started using Notion because,
I wanted to manage the articles as a task and wanted to log the draft content too.
I have to admit, I took some initial time to understand how things work in Notion, but once I got it, I love it more.
Thanks for your detailed response! From how you described it, Notion does seem more advanced than Trello.
I asked because I've used Trello for years now and I'm a huge fan of it. But I'm always hearing of Notion so was curious. Maybe I'll play around a bit with Notion to see what it has to offer but right now can't imagine leaving Trello 😆
Hemmingway is good I use it at University
True, very useful.
Is there a reason you prefer Canva and PixTeller over Figma?
No particular reasons. In fact, Figma is ahead when it comes to design and even to create CSS, React components out of our designs. I use Figma for those purposes.
However, when it comes to creating cover images, graphics for articles, the needs are limited such that canva is enough for me. I am not on a premium plan but still, I don't miss anything while creating the cover images or article graphics.
It is more about personal comfort for low-weight tasks using a non-designer background, knowledge.