![]() ![]() After hitting the publish button to post the article online, IFTTT will detect a new article on my blog’s RSS feed. Frequently used hashtags come from Pastebot. For example, while reading an interesting article on the web, MarsEdit Safari extension and text editing feature help me create the initial link post. In summary, as an example, for a single blog post on Micro.blog, tools like the MarsEdit Safari Extension, MarsEdit text editor, Pastebot, IFTTT and Buffer all contribute to making my blogger workflow faster and more consistent. I’m subscribing to their paid tier for less than four dollars. IFTTT, in general, has a weird user interface, which makes it harder to use than necessary. When I want to search for one of my previous posts and use the reference, it is easy to do so from the iPad or the web. One of my applets is to save all microblog post URLs into a Google sheet. This well-known web automation service acts behind the scene in many places of my blogger workflow. I recently started to use this feature on my Synology DS720+ as I didn’t want my personal iCloud Photos Library to contain assets that are not private photos. Synology Moments is a solution to manage all your visual assets for easy access from any device, from anywhere. Synology Photos management (A storage appliance) The resulting text saved to the clipboard can is available when needed. Another variant of this shortcut is to create a quote from a website. On my iPad, I do have a shortcut that does similar automation for my Micro.blog posts. ![]() You can edit the template used for this to add your specificities. Selected text on a page is automatically put in a quote block and a reference to the article source before the quoted text. Link posts using this Safari extension are easier to create instead of doing it manually. The venerable MarsEdit is a well-known text editor. MarsEdit (A text editor with a Safari extension included) I made a shortcut version for the iPad, but it’s a work in progress it only works in the action sheet in Safari. Copying and pasting a link in Markdown format has never been easier. This recently discovered safari extension allows me to copy a URL and paste it in markdown format in text editing apps like MarsEdit or while using the native version of Micro.blog app. It takes just a few seconds to process, and the shortcut asks me what to do with the resulting file at the end. The result is a more professional looking screenshot in all my blog posts. I recently imposed on myself to never publish a screenshot without processing it through this clever shortcut to put a nice device frame around it. Copied for macOS Apple Frames (An iOS Shortcut) ![]()
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