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How To Make A Compact Story Index For Your Profile Page
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Because Medium uses a single-column feed to show stories, it doesn’t take long before our stories disappear down the feed. If you only write about current events, this may be no big deal. Few people want to read old news or opinions. But if you write stories with lasting appeal, like fiction, or poetry, or other creative writing, then a single-column feed is not desirable.
You could create a personal publication to organize your writing (I did), but all of Medium’s in-house publications have already gone to the “frictionless reading” single-column blog layout. Can it be long before other publications follow suit?
I started making an index for all of my stories back in August of 2018. I featured it at the top of my Profile page. This is how to do it, step-by-step.
Plan First!
I planned to organize my stories into several categories: Fiction, Humor, Poetry, About Writing, About Medium, and Other Stories. You can organize your stories any way you like.
If you plan to use a compact grid of index images and have several categories, you will want to make your number of categories multiples of three: 3, 6, 9, 12. As Medium’s Grid function likes to organize images into rows of three. If you are alright…
