Little black said

When I read the first nuggets column, published on June 5, 2018, I didn’t realize that I had been writing for nearly a year and a half.

When I first started writing, I had no idea what to write, so I started the article with a bit of water, mainly sharing some common open source tool classes.

Later, BY chance, I saw an interesting code from my colleague.

When I first saw it, I was completely puzzled. After consulting my colleagues, I understood the reason. On second thought, this is a very easy place to step on the pit, so I wrote an article to share this knowledge.

I still remember that after the article was published, it was put on the recommended section and received readers’ likes and comments one after another. Seeing their articles recognized by others, I really feel the pleasure brought by writing.

From this article, began to have some ideas, constantly share knowledge points learned from work, stepped on some pits.

However, the follow-up writing is not smooth, this process is also due to laziness, because few people pay attention to, more than three or four months. Fortunately, finally insist on, oink oink output. From the original month, the shift to the current week.

This process has gained a lot, because writing constantly forces input, knowledge is constantly extended, slowly learning more and more. Also because writing links to other equally persistent friends.

Okay, so here are some personal tidbits, some writing experiences, back to the topic of today’s post.

Brother Hei is a restless person. When I encountered some complicated manual work during the writing process this year, I would look for some tools and software to replace it. Over the past year, I have developed my own writing tool chain. I would like to share it with you today, hoping to help you improve your writing efficiency.

Writing can be divided into three steps:

  • Before writing
  • In the writing
  • After writing

I’m going to go through these three steps and I’m going to use some tools along the way.

Before writing

trello

Website :trello.com/

This is a task management tool, similar to Kanban in Agile development, which allows us to quickly manage tasks.

In daily work, whenever I think of an idea, I will record it in the idea list at the first time. Don’t overestimate your memory here. If you think of it, write it down. I used to come up with an idea in the morning and write it down in the evening. Then I couldn’t remember it at night.

In the early preparation, you can put all the collected information and materials into specific cards.

When we start writing, drag to the next list, and when we’re done, drag to the next list so that the writing task is clear.

Trello is very powerful, but it’s only a small feature here, so if you’re interested, you can dig into it.

In the writing

IPic typora + + nut cloud

Markdown editor: Typora, download address: typora.io/.

Map bed tool: iPic, download address: toolinbox.net/iPic/

Cloud disk: Nut Cloud, www.jianguoyun.com/

IPic only supports MacOS

Writing with Markdown in Typora comes in handy with a real-time preview of what you see is what you get.

Aside from this, my favorite feature is the link to the iPic automatic graph bed. Simply drag the image into Typora or copy it directly to the editor to automatically generate the graph bed link.

The free VERSION of iPic only supports the weibo map bed, does not need any configuration can be used, personal use process feel enough. If you want to use other graph beds, you need to subscribe to this software, the specific price is as follows:

The good news is that the latest version of Typora also supports several other map bed clients:

  • UPic, macOS only, download from blog.svend.cc/ uPic /
  • PicGo, full system support, molunerfinn.com/PicGo/

To make a joke, the old version of Typora was often used without any response. Forced restart of the software may lose the previous writing records, encountered several times before, are a little want to give up using this software.

Fortunately, the latest version has improved the situation. Kudos. One thing, though, is that if there are too many images in the article, there will be a bit of a lag. May be caused by software real-time rendering, switch to source code mode, will not be stuck.

Finally, with nut cloud, cloud synchronization and multi-terminal article sharing are realized.

iPic Mover

IPic home of the same series of products, can be one click to existing Markdown files all images to the new map bed.

Drawing tools

Official website address:

www.processon.com/

draw.io/

The above two drawing websites are commonly used by me, which support flow chart, UML, prototype diagram and so on. The free version of Processon only supports storing 9 images. You can increase the storage limit by following the public account and inviting friends.

Draw. IO is a free site that works with Google’s Cloud Drive for unlimited storage. However, due to 404 issues, domestic visits may be slow.

Before often encountered some readers to consult, this kind of similar hand painted pictures is how to draw.

In fact, the above picture is drawn through draw. IO, you can choose the following figure in the process of using:

Select Comic for the arrow property

And the final font selection

Code picture generator

Official website :carbon.now.sh/

Generate nice code images, don’t worry some sites don’t support the code format.

In addition, Carbon also has plug-ins such as IDEA and VScode, which can be used quickly after installation.

tip

Automatic space

When writing, we need to add Spaces between Chinese and English numbers to make it easier to read and visually elegant.

But for those who aren’t used to manually adding Spaces, it’s easy to forget. Unfortunately, we can use the input method to complete the automatic blank function.

The following is a screenshot of the Sogou input method of MacOS. Other input methods have similar Settings.

Windows, however, found no such configuration.

In addition, we recommend a space god browser plug-in, which will automatically add space between Chinese and English pages. As we get used to it, adding Spaces manually becomes a kind of muscle memory.

Making address: github.com/vinta/pangu…

Rectangular quotes

Personally, I prefer to use rectangular quotation marks (“” “”) instead of curved quotation marks (“” “”). It is troublesome to type rectangular quotation marks using the keyboard, so we can use the input method punctuation replacement function directly.

After writing

After finishing the writing, we need to publish the article to the wechat official account and other blogging platforms.

Wechat official account

Since markdown was used to write the article before, the editor of wechat official account does not support rendering Markdown, so we need to typesetting by ourselves. Although typesetting we can use 135 editor, one plug-in and so on to complete, but still very troublesome.

Students who are interested in convenience can use markdown’s website, which supports simple and beautiful styles.

Official website address:

md.aclickall.com/

mdnice.com/

The above two typesetting site functions are similar, but the typesetting style is not the same. Mdnice can support copying the style into Zhihu.

Other Blogging platforms

Currently, individuals also distribute articles to Nuggets, Blog Garden, SegmentFault, etc., all of which support MarkDown and can be copied directly from markDown. However, the distribution platform is more, one by one hair or more trouble.

Here are two tools for automatically distributing posts to various blog sites.

Official website address:

openwrite.cn/

Github.com/ystcode/Blo…

Individuals are currently using OpenWrite, but the platform currently has a membership scheme that pays 99 yuan a year. BlogHelper is available for free.

One last word (for attention)

Writing is a process against human nature, constantly adhere to the output, in fact, really difficult. I hope the above tools and skills can help those who also insist on writing.

Finally, writing is also a lonely process. Welcome to follow me and add me to wechat, where we can communicate and grow together. Ollie!

Finally, thank you again for reading. I am a black brother downstairs, a tool ape who is not bald yet. See you in the next article

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