Writing Articles
by Frank McPherson Wednesday, December 21, 2016

I am noodling over what is the best way to write new blog articles, outside of this site that I create using 1999.io. I have been using Fargo.io to write, but that is going away in June so I have to find another tool. 

I really like using an outliner to write long articles, so I wish that I could use Little Outliner, but there is no way to get stuff out of it. Little Outliner creates OPML files that I need converted to HTML to use with Wordpress. 

When I use Fargo, I run a script that exports an outline to HTML with paragraphs. Unfortunately, Little Outliner does not support scripts in the same manner as Fargo so I cannot simply re-use that one.

An option is to go back to Evernote. Many years ago, when I was writing for money, I used Evernote to write all my articles that were ultimately pubished in WordPress. I came up with a notation to use to handle formatting and hyperlinks, but unfortunately the process required some manual re-editing after I copied and pasted the article content from Evernote to Wordpress. 

The advantage of using Evernote is that it provides a repository for all my writing and there are apps available for it on every platform I use. 

One way I could simplify the process is to use markdown as I am writing in Evernote. I have found that I can enable markdown in Wordpress and it looks it will accept most formatting directly with out any post paste editing. 

Now, if only the 1999 editor supported markdown directly. I think there is a way to add alternative editors, I need to do more search about that.