This week, I've been working on a small Chrome browser extension to help with a repetitive task I have to do every day when ulogging: copy/pasting and updating my blog footer. The posts I create on the Steem blockchain now always contains a footer where I add:
- links to previous posts
- communities I'm a member of
- credits
- Steem security tips
I usually keep the text of that footer in Simplenote an app to take notes with Markdown support. But everytime, I need to open it, copy and paste it into the editor and then go find my recent posts and copy and paste the title and URL. I don't like repetitive manual tasks, so being a developer, I thought I'd create something to help me automate this a little bit.
As you can see, I can create up to 5 different templates, I currently have:
- one template for my ULOG posts
- one template for my witness update posts
- one template for comment signatures
In the template you can see the text: {{ RELATED_CONTENT} }} this is where the automation comes in. As I click on the Find posts button, the extension will check the blockchain for my most recent blog posts and will display them in a selectable list.
I can then tick the checkboxes for each post I want to include in the footer. A click on the Inject into Steemit editor will copy the template, replace {{ RELATED_CONTENT} }} with a bullet point list of posts I have selected and paste that into the Steemit post or comment editor.
This saves me a little bit of time every day. I will release this extension soon, there are still few enhancements to be done.
Previously on my Ulog:
- ULOG 062 - New Shanghai restaurant in Chatswood
- ULOG 061 - Weekly stats
- ULOG 060 - Passive promotion of Steem from an iPhone.
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Credits
- The image at the top has been generated with the Canva app using my own photo.
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