Writing in the front

Among the md editors, Typora is recognized as one of the writing software with better experience. Its biggest feature is: WHAT you see is what you get, without split screen preview or opening new page preview. In addition, there are many advantages, not introduced here, not the focus of this article, interested can go to the official website download experience.

In its recently updated Beta, Typora addresses one of the biggest concerns for users: graph beds.

Here’s how to configure and use PicGo.

Download the latest version of Typora

Download it at www.typora.io/

Second, set the image upload

For the sake of simple operation, I set the language of Typora to simplified Chinese first, which is followed by the system by default.

Set up the upload picture and associated with the bed tool

Also conducted in Typora software, above:

Here are three red boxes:

  • The first default is noTo upload picturesOptions, drop down to select it;
  • The second red box suggests choosing both, so that any images you use for writing, whether locally uploaded or online, are uploaded directly to your graphic bed.
  • The third red box is the graph bed tool, which can be selected according to personal preference and can also be customized commands. I’m going to go with open source and freePicGo; Next comes your installation directory.

PicGoDownload here

PicGo installation

There is nothing special about installation, just the next step along the way.

Once installed, you will see this screen (MacOs)

At this time, uploading pictures failed. The reason can be seen in the message of uploading failure, because SM.MS officially no longer supports V1 version, and PicGo’s default picture bed is SM.MS. So, the next step is to configure the map bed.

By the way, if there is a small white do not know what is a map bed, here is an explanation:

Map bed is generally refers to the storage of pictures of the server, there are domestic and foreign points. Due to the spatial distance and other factors, the slow access speed affects the image display speed. In China, it is also divided into single line space, multi-line space and CDN acceleration.

You can also refer to PicGo’s official guide

Configure the SM.MS graph bed

  1. Register or log in to the official website of SM.MS and obtain Secret Token

    Website entry

    To obtain Secret Token, in the case of login, click here to go to the following location:

    New registered users click Generate Secret Token and copy it. It is recommended to save a copy somewhere else and do not Generate it again.

  2. Install the plug-in for PicGo

    Before installing the plugin, make sure you have Node.js installed with version 8 or higher, as PicGo is installed using NPM.

    Node.js official website. It is recommended to download the LTS version. After the installation is complete, run CMD to verify whether the installation is successful.

    Now you can install the PicGo plug-in. First of all, solve the problem that pictures cannot be uploaded by default. The installation operation is shown as follows:

    Installation will be a little slow, just wait patiently.

    This plug-in is open source, the author also gives online and offline installation of two ways, online installation does not distinguish between systems, recommended online installation. See here for details

  3. Configure the SM.MS graph bed

    After the plug-in is installed, you will need to restart PicGo for it to take effect. After the restart, you will see an extra entry in the Tabletop Settings: SM.ms – Login user

    Here to configure the Secret Token we generated in Step 1, click OK. If you plan to use SM.ms as the default map bed, click on the right to set it as the default map bed.

  4. Test whether the problem is resolved

    In the upload area, we see the following picture:

    Since I set the default, if you don’t, you can toggle the bed where I marked the red box.

    Then you can select upload or drag upload to test whether it is successful, whether successful or not, there will be an upload result prompt; After uploading, pictures can be seen in the album and can be modified. The default copy format is MD format, which is very friendly.

Test uploading pictures in Typora

There is no problem with uploading pictures in our graphic bed tool. Now you can experience it in Typora.

conclusion

  • The content of this article is suitable for the first time to write software collocation map bed friends reference, this article only introduces the use of SM.MS this kind of map bed, other map bed configuration can refer to the PicGo guide, write very detailed.
  • There are also a lot of personalization Settings in PicGo, such as whether to change the image name before uploading, timestamp naming, custom link format, boot up and so on.
  • PicGo also has many plugins, such as adding watermarks to images, which are explained in the PicGo guide mentioned earlier. Those who are interested can try it out.