How to convert Medium to Markdown

Using VSCode keybindings

I have my own website, using GitHub and Jekyll. Originally, I just linked to my Medium articles from my website, but this is not good practice — no one wants to enter a website and see a bunch of links.

As Medium does not yet support my country in the Partner program, I don’t lose money by posting the same article on my site. But copying manually is tedious and boring.

So here is how to copy the article into Markdown in VSCode, using some handy shortcuts.

Tip: best to copy the article when writing it to Medium, not too much later.

Step 1: Basic Medium to Markdown

Mala Deep wrote an excellent article on the subject, introducing the awesome StackEdit. This converts almost everything, using simple copy-paste.

Step 2: Pictures