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3 Best Tools that you can use for Writing Awesome Articles

Atharva Shirdhankar on March 19, 2022

3 Best Tools that you can use for writing an article that will surely Sky Rocket your article reader's experience. Whenever I write tech...
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Paul J. Lucas

For code snippets, you could simply use an authoring platform that allows one to write monospaced blocks of text — for example dev.to via Markdown. Snappify is to work-around platforms that don't allow that.

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Alex Lohr

Tools like snappify.io and poet.so have the disadvantage of producing inaccessible content; you have to add alt attributes yourself, which can be really tedious for larger code examples.

It's a good thing not to directly access Twitter in your posts for privacy reasons, but make sure people can use copy&paste.

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Atharva Shirdhankar

The code snippet is kind of disadvantage for large code for sure.
But when we want to write a tutorial blog/article we can break the code and create a few lines of code snippet.
So that we can create step by step tutorial. And even code snippet using snappify and other platforms/tools that does the same makes the article look more neat that was my main concern I added snappify into this list.

And yes about twitter thread snip even it has disadvantage it's makes inaccessible but let's assume one scenerio where you want to add useful twitter thread which is related to your article topic. You have 2 choices

  1. Embed tweet link
  2. Add tweet snip

When we add tweet snip in article, readers experience is much better than the embedded tweet links cause we let them read article easily without ruining reading experience by toggling between twitter and Devto or other blogging platforms.

And even adding both is also a great option.

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Dominik Sumer

Hey! Just wanted to mention that with snappify you can share accessible code snippets too :) .. Here is an example: snappify.io/view/bcc54061-6e8f-44c...

There you can also easily copy the code out of it.

It's also possible to embed them as an iframe on your websites.

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Atharva Shirdhankar • Edited

Even I thought of adding Grammerly for typos and Canva for blog banner but later thought many people will be knowing about this 2 tools so didn't added.

Thanks 😊

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🚩 Atul Prajapati 🇮🇳

Wow man the list is short but perfect tools

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Atharva Shirdhankar

Thanks 👍

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Photostockeditor

Great!!!!

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Atharva Shirdhankar

😄

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Kebean

Woow!!! thanks for this awesome list. it's surely gonna make a difference in my articles

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Atharva Shirdhankar

Welcome 😀.
And Happy Writing Articles 👍

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Jackson Kasi

Very thanks bro 🤗🤗🤗

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Atharva Shirdhankar

😄