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This Simple Obsidian Writing Template Has Doubled My Output
It’s a flexible plain text framework and I love it
Confession: 2 years ago I drafted my biggest earning Medium story directly into the online interface.
I know! Living dangerously, or what!! Since those naïve, reckless, fate-tempting days, I’ve tried writing in —
- Scrivener: So many boxes to put everything! So many features! Wonderfully overwhelming, but I couldn’t seem to stick with it.
- Obsidian: So simple, so plain-textilicious; so unstructured that I (initially) felt adrift.
- Ulysses: Lovely. I really should learn how to use it properly, one day.
After some to-and-froing, I’ve settled on Obsidian for my short form writing.
At least for now. I’m not going to stick with a tool to the detriment of the end result.
I create and refine drafts there, then open them in Ulysses for final polishing and addition of images. From there it’s easy to send the finished text straight to Medium as a draft.
My Plain Text Writing Template
Here is the simple template I now use for every post, followed by an explanation of each section.
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