The Medium Quick Reference Guide®
Chapter 6: Navigating Your Story Homepage
Learn how your story page is formatted.

Navigating your story page.

Much like Your Homepage, the format of Your Story Page is similar, and it’s separated into six sections.
We’ll do an overview now and talk about the different commands in the chapters where it seems appropriate.
- Search Medium — You can enter a story, author, Publication, story keyword, or topic. Here are a few examples:
Search Medium — Freelance Law #60: the Law of Habits
Search Medium — John D. Leavy (author)
Search Medium — ILLUMINATION (Publication)
Search Medium — comedy (story keyword)
Search Medium — freelancers (Topic)
2. Publication — The name of the Publication. Published in: ILLUMINATION’s MIRROR.
3. Author and story info — Author and story information and the Listen button.
4. Buttons in the upper right — The Write and Notifications buttons and the Profile Picture drop-down.
5. Right sidebar — Author bio and More from Medium.
6. The story — The whole story.
The book chapters are hyperlinked for easy access. Click on the title that interests you most.
Table of Contents, Foreword, Introduction, 1: What is Medium, 2: Navigating Your Homepage, 3: Getting to Know Your Homepage, 4: Exploring the Profile Picture Drop-down, 5: Searching for Stories from Your Homepage, 6: Navigating Your Story Homepage, 7: Writing/Editing Great Stories, 8: Jazzing Your Stories with Images & Embeds (Sf), 9: Publishing Great Stories (Sf), 10: Managing Your Stories (Sf), 11: Tunning Your Account Settings & Preferences (Sf), 12: Getting More Email Subscribers (Sf), 13: Using the Help Center to Get Answers (Sf), 14: Gaining Your First 100 Followers (Sf), 15: Building a Following with Publications (Sf), 16: Earning Money at Medium (Sf), 17: Continuing to Gain Followers (Sf), 18: Boosting Your Brand with a Newsletter (Sf), Appendix A: Locate Commands Fast, Appendix B: Top70 Most Popular Topics, Appendix C: Top 50 Medium Publications, Appendix D: Keyboard Shortcuts, Glossary.
You might check my recent interview conducted by Dr Mehmet Yildiz, chief editor of Illumination Integrated Publications, on Medium, introducing me and my book to the writing and reading community.