Delivering quality articles might take days or even weeks of work, meaning you gonna deal with lots of work in your Drafts.
Where do you write your DEV drafts?
- Do you save them directly here on DEV dashboard?
- Do you prefer to use cloud based apps like Notion and Evernote for better access and organization?
- Maybe you use some standalone apps, for example, markdown editors like Typora or Caret and the organize your drafts locally?
- Do you prefer to write markdown directly in your VS Code and then use the power of Git extensions to push them to Github?
- Or maybe you are type of person who likes to keep pen and notebook around you all day, so you can take sketches with no limits?
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On GitLab. dev.to/nickmaris/post-dev-to-artic...
(Like a lot of others in the comments here) I use Notion π It's easy to transfer the draft from there to DEV, and while I'm still getting a rough draft down, I find Notion really easy to quickly pop into and jot down some thoughts/tweaks even if I'm on mobile.
Also at this point a lot of my life is in Notion π, so it's nice to keep everything all together. Interesting reading what other folks are using!
When I'm using the web version of Notion, the only downside would be a slow initial start-up time π All those awesome features take some time to load, I guess π
Agree 100% - I have it open a lot and sometimes forget just how slow it can be to start up otherwise. I tried the android app for a while too and found that way worse, so now I just use the web version always!
It might be intimidating at times, those 4-5 secs might feel like an eternity when an awesome idea strikes, but you have nowhere to write it down and have to wait ππ
Maybe a good opportunity for me to reflect on "is this actually a good idea π€" π
Hahah, yeah π Or sometimes it's enough to lose the train of thought ππ
Sometimes directly in DEV dashboard, sometime type in LO Writer, then use online service to convert to Markdown.
I just was thinking... I'd like to post more regularly to dev.to but since I use Hugo is annoying as I have to republish each post from rss and it doesn't convert my gist and youtube links correctly.
Got me thinking a github action would be cool .. someone already thought of it π€. I'll have to take a look.
github.com/marketplace/actions/pub...
I write drafts in my local and after completed I push them to my blog. Then dev picks them up from rss.
I use OniVim2 and neovim to write my articles in markdown. I sometimes use Mweb and The Archive. Once writing is done, I just paste it into the dev.io editor.
This is something I wanna get better at, organising my draft posts. I have them on my blog, on Medium and on Evernote. Right now, I have 10 blog posts in draft in various places. π±
Proper CMS that works for you is the key to stay productive and be in control π―
I usually use MS Word for writing long texts that I want to spend more time on and where the quality of the content is important to me. That being said, I didn't realize that you guys take writing articles here so seriously, moving forward I will try to be a little more considerate about what I put out here :)
I usually write the title first on the phone because that's the idea and pass it on to a blog
Notion is a really good app for making posts but the drafts feature is also good. However I usually don't use it because the Drafts feature is kind of small (they show you Markdown tips which I only want to view occasionally which makes the editor a bit smaller)
I just write them as drafts.
Recently I started using Notion.
Its really easy to use as well as powerful.
I write my first draft in Notion.
Then I put it in a private repository called "writing".
There I edit it with visual studio code with the spell right plugin
At some point I copy paste it in dev and click on submit without thinking twice about it.
Now that the article is published, I feel the pressure to polish it.
So I edit it again a few times in visual studio code or typora and copy paste it in DEV.
Rinse and repeat.
I use my personal blog as a source of truth: Jekyll + Markdown + Github pages.... CarlosChac.in
Generally, I use atom to edit the markdown files
Then I use the import option on dev.to to import the articles as drafts.
vscode(markdown) => github