The Easiest Way to Write Blogs (for me)

How did I use to write blogs? You know, I tried multiple ways.

Apple Notes - easiest on the go. Just write it down, doesn't think much about it.
Google Docs - I may styled it italic or bold, but that won't carry over to html
Notion - I hate that app but I did tried it for 2 months then gave up just because how slow it is.

After writing my blogs, I would copy all of the text, pasted it in my html file, and then cmd+M emmet my way through it with <p> tags, other styling also added on later. Which just suck all life out of me because it's so repetitive. I think there's a way to convert them text to html in each app, but I never bother figure it out.

Lately I've been using Obsidian, which is writing in Markdown. And it makes my life soooo much better.

I can do heading

and another heading

right inside Obsidian, and I won't have to write a single HTML tag.

If you don't know what Markdown is, it's just a language to style text in a readable manner. It's very simple and easy, like if you want a heading, type # and if you want italic, surround the text with *

I think most people probably know Markdown already since it's how you style text in Discord? I think. (I don't use discord much, hate it.) , Reddit, and the Github README file is in Markdown obviously. (Also I just found out that you can use Markdown in Instagram direct message too? What?) But in general Markdown never came up for me until January.

I installed the plugin convert to HTML, which would copy my selected text (in Obsidian) as HTML by just clicking a hotkey (I set it as cmd+shift+H). It's so convenient and I don't have to do all those stuff ever again!!!

I can just style and prettified everything inside Obsidian, link everything or write some additional HTML styling here if I wanted to, preview all nice and pretty, then one hotkey. Boom. Perfect HTML content.