preface

Yesterday, I participated in the second phase of the creators’ training camp organized by the Gold Mining community. I had the honor to meet many big guys in this industry, such as Yueying, industrial gathering, Zhang Jintao, and so on. I also got to know many bloggers of technical writing. In view of the speeches of the big guys and the questions of the bloggers, I found that you are very interested in the multi-platform distribution, and have been troubled by this problem for a long time, so today I will talk about some tools that I, a little novice, explore and use in the common creation and release of this piece of the summary, I hope it can be helpful to you. Let’s take a look at the main content of the article. I will mainly develop it from the following aspects:

  • The editor

  • Mind mapping

  • Figure bed

  • Multi-platform distribution

If you are interested in some of them, then skip to the corresponding directory, of course, you can also look at the full text, see my method and your method is the same 😉.

The editor

This is mainly for editors that use Markdown syntax. If you are not familiar with Markdown syntax, you can check out my other article: Markdown Writing in 10 Minutes.

Typora

Address: www.typora.io/

I’d call it one of the best Markdown editors out there. It’s a free Markdown editor for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Simple yet powerful, and once you get used to the shortcuts, you’ll find that it’s much faster than other editors! (Personally, of course, you can disagree 😁) One drawback is that Typora is currently very slow to use once a document is too large, which is not the case with the same document in other editors.

In addition, Typora supports a variety of themes, but also can support our custom theme, for our friends, that is to kill! For the export functionality that most other editors support, Typora supports exporting files in the following formats:

  • PDF
  • HTML (With/Without Styles)
  • Word
  • OPenOffice
  • RTF
  • Epub
  • LaTex
  • Media Wiki
  • reStructureText
  • Textile
  • OPML
  • image

MarkText

Address: marktext. App /

Markdown is a simple, elegant, free, open source Markdown editor that focuses on speed and usability, and also supports macOS, Windows, and Linux. The following features are supported:

  • Live previews (what you see is what you get) and a clear and concise interface make for a distraction-free writing experience.
  • Support for the CommonMark specification and GitHub ScorchingMarkDown specification.
  • Markdown extensions such as mathematical expressions (KaTeX), Front Matter, and Emoji.
  • Support for paragraph and inline style shortcuts to improve your writing efficiency.
  • Export HTML and PDF files.
  • Various topics: Cadmium Light, Material Dark, etc.
  • Various editing modes: source mode, typewriter mode, focus mode.
  • Paste images directly from the clipboard.

VS Code

Address: code.visualstudio.com/

Yes, VS Code can be used not only as our Code editor, but also as our Markdown editor, with Markdown enhancements, editing on the left, and live previewing on the right.

Recommended plugins:

  • Markdown All in One
  • Markdown Preview GitHub Styling

Mind mapping

Process On

Address: www.processon.com/i/5eec25bf1…

Free online drawing tool, support real-time collaboration, easy to team, support the production of a variety of graphics:

  • The flow chart
  • Mind mapping
  • Prototype figure
  • UML
  • Network topology
  • Organization chart
  • …

The curtain

Address: mubu.com/

Outline note-taking tool that generates mind maps based on our outline. The free account supports 300 multi-document nodes, supports 4 structures and 4 styles of mind map styles, and can export Word, PDF, picture, HTML and other formats, which is fully enough for our daily personal use.

GitMind

Address: gitmind. Cn /

Online mind maps, mind maps, flow charts, industrial design, engineering management, a picture contains a thousand faces.

We can not only edit by ourselves, but also invite our friends to work as a team. In addition, a variety of templates are supported, not only for online editing, but also for export in various forms.

markmap

Address: markmap.js.org/

The above tools are all direct graphics tools and have nothing to do with our Markdown tool. Today’s tool combines the two, using Markdown to create mind maps. Markmap visualizes the text of The Markdown syntax with a mind map. It is available online or as a plug-in in VS Code. It also supports export of SVG and HTML, which is very convenient.

Figure bed

Github

Address: github.com/

Yes, you read that right. GitHub is the universal site where you can not only find open source projects, software, tutorials, etc., but you can also use it as your own free map bed. For details on the build process, see my previous post: How can I build my own free Map Bed using GitHub?

Gitee

Address: gitee.com/

If GitHub can be used to build a map bed, then our domestic Gitee must be able to do the same and access it faster than GitHub, isn’t it beautiful? For the specific building process, please refer to my previous article: Gitee + Typora, build your own free picture bed!

SM.MS

Address: sm. / ms

Free map beds are provided, and each account has 5 GB of free space for our own management, which is more than enough for our daily use.

Passing figure bed

Address: imgtu.com/

Pass the chart bed, this is a high-speed and stable upload and outside the chain service chart bed, support global CDN acceleration, support outside the chain, the original picture to keep, and the maximum single sheet support 10 MB. As for its stability, I believe you don’t have to worry about it, it has been running for 10 years from 2011 to now, until the post hosted 16151781 pictures, what are you still hesitant to use up the thing!

Multi-platform distribution

OpenWrite

Address: openwrite. Cn /

It mainly provides functions such as group sending function, blog guide public account and so on. In addition, it also supports export of Markdown guide wechat public account, multi-platform free map bed configuration and so on. However, ordinary users only support 10 free group sending opportunities per month, and other functions require members.

Function comparison between regular users and members:

privilege Member of the user The average user
VIP customer service group, 1 to 1 answer support Does not support
Unlimited number of channels support support
Article free picture bed support support
Article diffusion times unlimited 10 times/month
Article timing diffusion support Does not support
The article group delete support Does not support
Article custom map bed support Does not support
The data were analyzed statistically support Does not support
Article different channels customize the bottom information support Does not support

Current support channels:

  • Think no
  • CSDN
  • The Denver nuggets
  • Jane’s book
  • zhihu
  • Open source in China
  • Spring4All
  • Today’s headline
  • For class notes
  • weibo
  • There was no.

Supported graph beds:

  • Default: overwatch free seven ox cloud, the width and height limit is 800 × 800 px, beyond the limit will be scaled

  • Seven NiuYun

  • Ali cloud

ArtiPub

Address: github.com/crawlab-tea…

ArtiPub (short for Article Publisher, meaning “Article Publisher “) is an open source Article publishing platform that currently supports Article editing, Article publishing, and data statistics. In addition, ArtiPub installation is simple, provides a variety of installation methods, can be used one key installation, installation is generally only 5 minutes.

Currently, the following platforms are supported:

  • The Denver nuggets
  • SegmentFault
  • CSDN
  • Jane’s book
  • zhihu
  • Open source in China
  • Today’s headline
  • Blog garden
  • Baidu hundred number
  • 51CTO
  • Developer headlines
  • Wechat official account

BlogHelper

Address: github.com/onblog/Blog…

It’s a little assistant that has no interface and only exists in the system tray, and it’s completely free.

Through it, we can distribute our locally written articles to domestic technology mainstream platforms. In addition, the software also supports multiple map bed, whether you use free map bed or build their own map bed, believe that the software always has a map bed for you.

  1. Supported Platforms
    • zhihu
    • The Denver nuggets
    • Jane’s book
    • Think no
    • CSDN
    • Blog garden
    • Open source in China
  2. Supported graph bed
    • sina
    • Seven NiuYun
    • And take the cloud
    • Ali cloud
    • Tencent cloud
    • SM.MS
    • GitHub
    • ImgUR

conclusion

Many tools, but don’t drink, ha ha ha. Above are more than 10 software for different functions, they may not be very perfect, but also have their own characteristics, we can combine their needs to choose one or more of them to use, but it depends on your own preferences.

Well, that’s all for today. If this article helped you, give it a like!

Of course, if you have a better tool to recommend, please leave a comment in the comments section