Not being able to post to my blog from my phone is one of the many reasons I bring up when I try to justify to myself why I publish here so infrequently.
Well, the part of me that wants to eliminate dumb excuses has gotten down to business and figured out a convoluted (yet simple!) way to fix that for me.
The Apps
Drafts for writing and drafting the posts. It always starts with Drafts.
1Writer because it’s the only app I already own they works well with .md files and has a fairly simple integration with Working Copy. More details in this helpful pos.
Working Copy for all the git stuff.
I thought I’d elaborate, but listing these tools + linking to that other helpful blog post pretty much covers it.
Oh!
The drafts actions!
This one for quickly getting my Hugo front matter sorted.
And this one to send it all to 1Writer.
Write in Drafts -> Add Hugo front matter with an action -> send to 1Writer -> use publish action in 1Writer to send it all to git, commit, and push -> use an iOS shortcut to manually deploy a new build.
I could (and did, for a long time!) have builds occur automatically, but I just like to press a button to make it “official” that I want the post to be posted.
PLUS it serves as a way for me to draft the post but give me a few extra minutes to really consider if I’m ready to publish it.