writing-a-newsletter.md

Writing A Newsletter

• Open up IA Writer
• Write your content in markdown
• Move it to a separate file somewhere
  • docs/newsletter-archive if going out on practice
• Edit file. Add links, fix spelling.
• Add an image. You'll need it for Medium to look good.
• Replace smart quotes if they exist quotes file.md
• Push to GitHub

If sending by TinyLetter

• Convert Markdown to HTML
• Send preview

showdown makehtml -i file.md -o file.html
tiny --title=<title> --body=file.html
# id of letter sent

• Check preview in Gmail

tiny -send --id=<id>

If posting to blog:

• Go to blog folder
• rake post title=""
• Add frontmatter to post
• Test by running jekyll serve
  • Go to http://localhost:4000
• Push to GitHub
• Get URL

If posting to Medium:

• Add frontmatter to markdown file: title, created, canonicalUrl

• TODO Fix canonicalURL - doesn't seem to work

• Use markdown-to-medium

  • markdown-to-medium ./title

• Edit draft online

• Remove issues with markdown not checking double spaces after line

• Double check that it is sent out on twitter