From the latest Core Intuition podcast was the discussion about friction. For me, the reason why I have stuck with Micro.blog for nearly 5 years and let it become a habit has nothing to do with the Micro.blog web app itself. Rather it has absolutely been the Drafts app. Open the app, ty... www.kaa.bz

@kaa And if Drafts isn’t someone’s cup of tea, there are numerous other apps that can easily publish to Micro.blog.

@pimoore agreed. Would love to try an all with even less friction tbh :). Open. Type. Tap to post.

@kaa I have the “post” button on the extra keyboard row, right below the text, always visible. Saves me at least one tap, and it’s just “Open. Write. Tap.” 🙂

@maique Why didn’t I think of that? 🤦🏽‍♂️ Can you select actions from different action groups or do you have to create a separate action group to display there?

@pratik I have a keyboard group, and used to copy the ones I wanted over there. Recently the app was updated with an “alias” feature, making it simpler.

@maique That would make it easier! Will investigate later.

@maique That’s so cool. How do you display them in color?

@pratik There are a few settings when you edit the action. Color, label, icon…

@maique Hmmm, I really don’t like how Drafts implements the second keyboard, but this might be super useful. Thanks for the tip :).

@kaa Thanks for alerting me to the Drafts app for sending off Micro.blog entries. I have been using MarsEdit on my Macbook but that's not available on my iPhone.

@Ozzie48 np! Game changer :).

@maique I got that working. It just wasn't showing up in color in the Action Bar. Had to toggle option to 'show color' in the Aa settings.

@maique How do you get the icon there (without having to scroll, I mean)?

@odd The first on the action list show up like this. You only have to scroll for the ones that are further down the list. If I understood your question..

@maique ok now I want to know how you reply with an image on mb? it should not be this hard...

@maique does it have to be in markdown?

@kaa I just use Mimi to upload, copy the markdown, and paste it on the reply.

@maique would you believe the html equivalent doesn’t work…

@kaa Everything I write is in markdown. If that’s the case, it’s a nice, and unexpected, perk.

Even when writing longer posts, with many photos, that’s how I do it. Yesterday I uploaded 17 photos at once, wrote the alt text on Mimi, copied the whole thing to Drafts, and then write the post on “top” of that. I get the paragraphs and photos exactly like I want them to.

My new setup:

@maique Hmm. I’m not sure if I understood. I tried to remove and reorder the action menu, but it doesn’t change the actual one. I don’t have any idea what I’m doing wrong.

@kaa @maique The use of HTML vs Markdown in Replies has been my perennial complaint especially since the Uploads page lets you copy only HTML code. I know the earlier thinking was to discourage images in replies fearing a GIF flood.

@odd can you make sure that you have selected the correct action menu above the keyboard (the most left button)? That was a hiccup for me…

@yatil It’s the md one, I think that is right. Will double check.

@odd There’s a “>” to the left of the extra keyboard row. That’s where you select the action list that’s going to show there. Have you got the correct one selected there?

@kaa Hahahaha. Lucky me 🤣

@maique Hey! Now I got it, thanks.! I tried to remove in the action group view, and not under each action.

@odd Cool! 😅

@maique @kaa BTW I have a Drafts action that lets me directly upload an image from the Camera Roll and paste the markdown code in the text. I got the action from @jmreekes who is considering adding multiple uploads at once.

Of course, in Mimi, you can already upload multiple images and cut-paste the code but you still have to switch apps.

@pratik do you have a link for that?

@kaa Been a while since I found it. Check if this one works. One I have does work and looks similar.

@pratik I am so used to Mimi, and it fits so nicely in my workflow, I can’t seem to be able to try anything else 🤣

@kaa After reading this post and following the thread, here's what I ended up doing:

@Mtt I can guess but what’s the third and fourth action?

@pratik In order, they are: Post to micro.blog, add image, insert markdown link from clipboard, change line to title case, and add footnote.

@Mtt Talk me through your last three buttons there, definitely intrigued.

@kaa Touched on them in a follow up comment above, but here is a little more detail:

First is a simple markdown link button. Adds the necessary markdown around a highlighted word. If there’s a link on the clipboard, it inserts it as well.

Next is Title Case. I use it when posting something with a Title. I always forget which small words should be capitalized.

Last is markdown footnotes. Adds the inline and end-of-post markdown at once.

@greghiggins really is :).

@Mtt For the insert markdown link from clipboard, does it copy the URL from the browser and copy as a markdown link code with the title as the text? If so, can you share that action?

@pratik No, but that is a built in feature of the Drafts Share Sheet (from Safari). You can even customize the exact input/output as well. For example, if you have a portion highlighted, it could insert that as a block quote.

@Mtt got it. But I found the one I was looking for.