How To Manage Your Story Like A Pro On Medium

Features I Didn’t Know As A Beginner

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Writing101

5 min readOct 7, 2023

It’s been a few days since I started using Medium. I hadn’t heard about it until just a few days ago, so basically, I didn’t know a thing about Medium before I signed up.

Even after I finished signing up, I wasn’t sure about writing here. But somehow, I ended up writing my first story on Medium. Believe me, it was super easy for me to write.

All I had to do was click ‘Write’ in the top right corner, and I was good to go.

But after reading stories on Medium, I realized that there was something missing in mine. Fortunately, I figured it out soon enough that I didn’t know a lot about its features, so I was having issues in managing my story.

So, these are few features that I found by exploring Medium and with the help of YouTube, Google, and other platforms. These will help you write, manage and enhance your story in a professional manner.

I’m going to explain one by one briefly.

How to add Title and Subtitle?

Start writing your story by writing your title.
Select your text including the title and select ‘Big T’.
To add a subtitle write below your subtitle text.
Select the text and press ‘Small T’.

How to add a kicker?

To add a kicker place your cursor at the beginning of your title and press enter.
By pressing enter, space above your title would be free.
In this space, you can write your kicker and again select ‘Small T’ after selecting the text.

How to add header and sub-header?

Header and Sub-header is similar to Title and Subtitle.
Select text which you want as Header and click ‘Big T’.

For sub-header, click ‘Small T’.

How to start a numbered list?

To create a numbered list, press 1 and a period (“1.”) and then press the space bar.
Write your text and hit Enter.
After you press enter, an automatic numbered-list will be generated.

How to start a bulleted list?

To insert a bullet, press the hyphen or dash key (“_”) , and then press the space bar.
After writing your text, press Enter, and a bulleted list will be generated.

How to add an image?

Click on the “+” symbol that appears at the beginning of a new line.
The first and second options allow you to add an image.
You can add an image from your gallery by selecting the first option or from Unsplash by choosing the second option.

How to add a video?

Click on the “+” symbol, and the third icon is for adding videos.
You can paste the link of the video you want to add there.
After hitting enter, wait a few seconds for the video to load, and then you’re good to go.

How to add an embed content?

If you want to add embedded content (such as from Twitter, Blogger, or Medium), click on the “+” symbol.
Next, select the fourth option (“< >”) and paste your link.
Upon hitting Enter, wait a few seconds and you’re good to go.

How to add a new part?

If you want to add a new part to the same story, there’s a pretty simple solution.

Click on the “+” symbol that appears at the beginning of a new line.
Select the sixth option (“…”), and you can add a new part.

How to attach a link with your text?

To add a link, select the text.
Click the third option and paste your link there.
Press Enter.
When your reader clicks on that text, the corresponding link will open.
For example: Here are more basic tips you must consider while writing.

How to add relevant topics or tags?

Adding appropriate tags is a crucial step to make your content more discoverable to other readers.

Always choose tags that are highly relevant to your story.
Opt for commonly used tags like writing, self-care, and programming.
Avoid using complex or uncommon words as tags.
Try to avoid tags with a low number of stories associated with them.

Explore writing styles:

To bold your text select text and press “B”.
“i” is for Italic writing.
For quotes or sayings, click on the quotation mark symbol (“).
To discover various writing styles, click again on the quotation mark symbol (“) after selecting the text.