My Blogging Workflow as of mid 2025

2025-06-08

Recently, Robert wrote about his updated blogging workflow. A good opportunity to update mine, too.

I wrote about my blogging workflow in 2020 and 2023.

Not much has changed since 2023. I use hugo for this blog, hosted in a repository on uberspace.

To create a new article, I …

1. take my iPhone. I would love to write more on the Mac but noticed that after long working days I barely want to spend more time in front of a „computer“.
2. go through Reminders & Notes. The 2023 article mentioned that I‘ll try out obsidian for draft creation - which I did and dumped again. Apple Notes is available on all my devices, convenient and thus my choice for creating drafts for blob articles. Reminders came in recently. An article from flip.de recommended using an iOS Shortcut in combination with a reminders list as an alternative to Pocket (the meanwhile shut-down read-later app). When I find something interesting on web, I use the shortcut to create the „read-later-reminder“ and when I am in the mood for writing, I go through that list and create a draft in Notes.
3. create bullet points in German. Within the note, I start by creating bullet points in German. Although the blog is in English, I find it easier to create the initial draft in German. The 2023 version mentioned that a draft can stay multiple days, weeks or even months in this state - but this is no longer the case, as long as I am not interrupted during the flow.
4. write paragraphs. Once the initial idea for the post is layer out, I copy them over to iA writer, create the front matter (title, tags, etc.) and start writing - English - paragraphs. I do one (!) proof read iteration.
5. start the git magic. iA saves the markdown in the local version of the git repository created by the Working Copy app. I open Working Copy, hit „commit & push“ and wait a few seconds. Here, I wrote about the post-hook that builds the blog after every commit.
6. Done

For me, this works and I noted that more complex (proof-reading and validation) procedures lead to not writing at all. A downside of this process is that the first time I see how the post will look is when it‘s available on the website. Thus, there is often a second iteration of steps 4 and 5, where I fix typos, add missing links or headings. Then, it’s really done 😅