I have been using Wordpress as my blogging platform (https://chapra.blog). I also run a newsletter via kit. Not all my posts go out as a newsletter.
My problem is my workflow. I compose in Notion, then copy and paste in wp. If it is a newsletter post, I also do that in Kit. This can be tedious. Which makes me write less.
I also sometime cross post to Medium.
I am looking for an alternative that:
- Is a working CMS that can handle both web and a newsletter. - Can easily cross-post to Medium when wanted to. - Works with Markdown. - Is cheap to host.
Ghost looked promising, but costs 5 times my current plan for WP.
thanks
> You can publish a Note as a draft to Medium by using the Publish to Medium command beneath the Note menu.
https://notenik.app/kb/publish-to-medium.html
Not quite immediate cross-posting. But it can get you close I suppose.
Kick around in the Knowledge Base to get a feel for it.
In practice you can put writing that’s separate from the mainline of posts (I.e., newsletter material) in a subdirectory of the main directory that Notenik operates in (all files are locally stored and can be written in various Markdown flavors; the in-house syntax is a dialect of Multimarkdown).
The developer wrote a guide on how to get starting publishing a static website: https://notenik.app/web-intro/
You can host the blog for about as much as you feel like spending; VPS, shared, personal equipment, sneakernet.
Granted, it takes some effort in writing templates and scripts to generate the site, but the guide covers that and it can become a write once and forget about it sort of thing is that’s what you want it to be.
I do all my work for all other project in Notion and find it very difficult and irritating to switch apps.
I am still building this, so would love to chat and get any inputs (incl. your additional use-cases) if you are up for it! Will ping you if that's ok, LMK
I also really like the philosophy of Bear Blog and Matoara Blog. I don't think Bear has newsletter sending, but Matoara does.
When used to use Wordpress, I used this:
For the newletter, i have no idea. Mass-email is hard to get right.