Summary

The article describes a tool that converts Obsidian Markdown files to HTML format, which can be easily pasted into the Medium editor.

Abstract

The author has been using Obsidian for several months and has found it difficult to export content from Obsidian to Medium due to formatting issues. Fredrik Andersson has created an Open Source application that converts Markdown format text to HTML, which can be pasted directly into the Medium editor. The author has provided a step-by-step guide on how to use the tool and has also mentioned that the tool can be installed and run locally. The author concludes that using the converter has dramatically improved the effort required to publish an article from Obsidian to Medium.

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Obsidian Markdown to Medium Converter

I have been using obsidian for several months as a personal knowledge base, research, and writing tool.

The Problem

I am currently only writing for Medium and one of my frustrations has been that there is no simple way to export content from Obsidian into Medium. Copying a note from Obsidian and pasting it into the Medium editor requires significant editing to correct the formatting.

Markdown to Medium

Fredrik Andersson has created an Open Source application that converts Markdown format text and converts it to HTML that can be copied and pasted directly into the Medium text editor.

The code is available on GitHub at, https://github.com/fanderzon/markdown-to-medium-tool.

Hosted Solution

The author has made a hosted solution available at, http://markdown-to-medium.surge.sh/.

Usage

Using the tool is simple,

Open your Obsidian vault
Navigate to the file you would like to publish in Medium (a .md file)
Open the file with a plain text editor (I use VS Code, Notepad can also be used)
Select the text and copy it to the clipboard
Open the application http://markdown-to-medium.surge.sh/
Paste the text into the left-hand pane
Select the HTML formatted text from the right-hand pane
Paste the text into the Medium editor

The final step is to manually perform the following edits in the Medium editor,

Assign the title and subtitle
Insert any images

Install and Run Locally

To install and run the application locally you will need to have the following application installed,

Git
Node
NPM

Open a command prompt and enter the following commands in a folder of your choice,

git clone https://github.com/fanderzon/markdown-to-medium-tool.git
cd markdown-to-medium
npm install
npm start

After completing the above, the application will be available locally at, http:\\localhost:3000

Conclusion

Using the converter provided by Fredrik Andersson is a dramatic improvement in the effort required to publish an article from Obsidian to Medium. I find that manual editing in the Medium editor is now restricted to inserting images only.

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