Great content. Awful workflow. Content creators need to take ownership of the way they do their jobs. Stop using dated tools and processes. Stop settling. This presentation walks through a Github and Markdown content creation workflow.

2. dammit ian

5. Great! Content Creation

6. Sigh. Content Creation
Content Workflow

8. Reformatting

20. Creating content
using proprietary
tools = insanity

21. Look! I can do bold
text and use
different fonts!!!

23. This is a web page.
For giggles, I pasted
it into Google Docs…

24. And got this

25. OK, let’s be nicer:
Moving from Google
Docs to HTML

26. Everything highlighted = garbage

27. Maybe Word creates
better HTML…

29. Not exactly

30. Pull images out
of a Google Doc?

39. H1 & H2

40. LINK

41. LIST

42. IMAGE

43. Typora:
Visual markdown editor

44. Typora:
Behind the scenes

45. Typora:
Formatting menus

46. Typora:
Export formats

47. Marked:
Fancier exports

48. H1

49. LINK

50. LIST

51. IMAGE

52. Gorgeous HTML
SMART
QUOTES

54. To MS Word .docx

55. To ebook .epub

56. Images included

58. Pandoc

59. Pandoc

60. Markdown to .docx,
with template
pandoc -o
canonical.docx canonical.md
--reference-docx
master-template.docx
https://pandoc.org/demos.html

61. Markdown to .pptx,
with template
pandoc -o
canonical.pptx canonical.md
--reference-doc
master-template.pptx
https://pandoc.org/demos.html

69. Photoshop
image processor

70. Photoshop
image processor

78. =

82. Github Desktop

83. Github.com

87. Github Desktop Setup

89. Create a repository

90. Lookit that

91. Lookit that

92. Time to connect
to Github.com

93. Lookit that!!!

94. Write something

95. Github tracks it

96. Keeps a history

97. Keeps a history

98. “Push” to github.com

100. Example: I add an image
and edit some text

103. It’s all there

104. Rich edits preview

105. Example:
I delete an image

108. I got yer image right here

109. “Show me every file I ever deleted”

110. “Show me every file I ever
deleted, and when, and where”

116. Roll A d20
Ian Lurie
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