Thank You Medium Lists

Now I can dump my Writing Index and save a lot of upkeep work

Max Langelott

Medium’s recently released Lists feature is perfect for me. I am going to use it to replace my current Story Index story.

I have kept an index story (called My Writings) pinned to my profile page since 2018. It is a categorized index of all my Medium writing. The problem is, it requires continual updating. I have to select the URL from each new story and add it to the appropriate index category.

It is not a lot of work, but it is easy to forget and fall behind.

Medium’s new Lists feature solves that problem. I can recreate my stories index as seperate Lists. One list for each writing category in my current index.

It will take a while to create the new lists, as I have three years worth of stories to open and add to lists. But once that is done, all I will have to do is check the bookmark icon on news stories to add them to the appropriate List.

I will also no longer need to have the same story pinned to my profile forever. My latest story will be at the top. Hurray!

Thanks, Medium.

Mark

Another nice thing about lists is they show you how many stories you have written in each category.