Medium to Markdown or Markdown to Medium?

Which direction is less tedious?

I wrote before on how to convert Medium to Markdown. I showed some nice shortcuts using VSCode. But as I noted in the end, it’s still a tedious process.

One of the people who read the article asked me why I don’t do the opposite — write in Markdown and import it into Medium. And really, why not?

Import Story

1. Create the post in Markdown, and publish it
2. In Medium, go to Your Stories → Import a story.

3. Enter the link of your published post and press Import.

Fix story before publishing

Add missing elements

If your Jekyll theme, like mine, doesn’t have subtitles, then you need to add it. In addition, text dividers are not imported — you’ll need to manually add the Medium text divider.