📉 I tracked it for a year. The result? 87 hours lost to Medium's editor in 2025 alone.

Two full work weeks. Gone to one repetitive task: manually reformatting Markdown after pasting it into Medium.
Bold text losing its formatting. Code blocks merging into paragraphs. Tables collapsing into pipe characters. Headings becoming regular text. Every. Single. Article.
So I did what developers do when a tool doesn't exist — I built it. 🛠️
MD to Medium is a Chrome extension that takes your .md file and pastes it into Medium's editor with everything intact. Headings, code blocks, lists, blockquotes, even tables. One click. Ten seconds.
The engineering was harder than expected. Medium's editor isn't a regular contenteditable — it's a ProseMirror-based document model that intercepts paste events at the JS level. Direct DOM manipulation breaks Medium's save. The clipboard API fails without document focus. And blocks split silently at blank lines.
I wrote an article breaking down the entire problem-solution journey — including the architecture, the clipboard tricks, and the code that finally worked. 📝
If you write on Medium and you're tired of losing 20 minutes per article to manual formatting, this is for you. ⚡
Read the full breakdown here: Check it out
Free to install. Pro tier is $9 one-time — no subscription, no monthly fee.
Curious what tools other writers wish existed but don't? Drop them in the comments. 💬