With Steemit being down a lot lately I figured I'd share my offline writing workflow with you. This will hopefully help you in having more structure, backup and preview in your process of writing amazing content. I will not go into how you write a good post, that is up to your own creativity, however, I would like to give you some tips, tricks and tools to help you get that creativity out there!
So here is what I do. I've seen a lot of people complain about losing their posts because Steemit was unstable and couldn't properly save their publication, or because their internet connection would go down, etc. I've also heard of people writing their content in Google Docs or Word or Notepad beforehand, which is good practice as well.
I would like to introduce you to Atom. This is a simple texteditor which originally has been developed for programming. It was created by the good folks at GitHub. It is very much comparable to Notepad (Windows) or Texteditor (Mac). But with one awesome extra; plugins! Because of this, you can actually preview your post almost exactly like it will appear on Steemit!
👉 Images
👉 Snippers (_-prefix)
👉 Articles (date-prefix)
The image folder holds all custom made images for my posts. Mostly covers, but sometimes cropped images or grids, etc. Personally I have experienced a resolution of 1200x702 to work best for full width and as cover.
The snippets are short pieces of markdown like a signature or particular markup for videos, which I use more often so I can easily copy paste them into my posts.
Now here is the true power of Atom, it has a Markdown preview pane! First make sure you save your textfiles with the .md extension. Next, you can open the preview pane through the Packages-menu. This will open up your file in a preview pane on the right side. Another tip I can give you is to enable Soft Wrap which you'll find under the View-menu.
⚠️ Fair warning: Steemit has slight changes to Mardown and a few extra's. So after writing up everything I will do the final finishing touches in Steemit itself.
Was this useful for you? Do you have a different workflow?
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