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Minimal Desktop App for Medium developed by Medium enthusiasts

License: MIT License

CSS 5.20% JavaScript 88.28% HTML 6.52%

mediumdesk-v1's Introduction

MediumDesk is not actively maintained. Please checkout Desk for Medium.com instead.

MediumDesk

MediumDesk is a simple app that lets you read and write Medium stories when you are at your desk. Developed by Medium enthusiasts

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(Current version : 0.2.1)

OS X (10.9+)

Linux

Windows (7+) - Coming Soon

Features

The goal of this app is to purely extend medium.com's experience into desktops. We don't intend to modify/replace any behavior. For every feature we add, we ask ourselves "Would Medium do it, If they built a desktop app?".

The first goal is to be able to use medium.com without any issues in it's own window. So it is always accessible through your Applications folder, Dock / Task Bar, Search. To find your draft, you don't have to dig through browser tabs anymore.
Native Menus & Shortcuts for commonly used functions (Cmd N / Ctrl N - New Story, Cmd F / Ctrl F - Search Medium, Cmd 0-7 / Ctrl 0-7 - Home, Drafts, Public Stories, Stats, Bookmarks, Publications, Profile, Settings.)

Coming Soon

Import file from disk...
Back & Forward within the App
Open in Browser
Pin pages to keep them open
External URLs show a top bar similar to medium

Dev

Issues

Feel free to submit issues and enhancement requests.

Contributing

MediumDesk is built with Electron & would love to accept pull requests for any issues or feature request.

Commands

Init: $ npm install
Run: $ npm start
Build OS X: $ npm run build:osx
Build Linux: $ npm run build:linux
Build Windows: $ npm run build:windows
Build all: $ brew install wine and $ npm run build (OS X only)

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mediumdesk-v1's Issues

History, Search in History, Pin/Unpin, Open in External Browser, Bookmark from history

Read out Stories

Read out Stories. It will miss images and other media content. But very helpful for busy people. Optionally Stories can be converted to audio and posted as podcasts, so people can listen in their existing players. We can start with the different home page topics as different feeds. Then we can get more into customization.

Support Back & Forward within the App (Button + Shortcut)

Zoom in/out during edits to get a big picture

Sublime style Plugin Support

Sign in with Email is not working

Sign in with email doesn't work because we've to open the URL in browser and it signs in medium on the browser instead of the app. I think this will be fixed if we make links of medium open in app ?
They are of the following form:
https://medium.com/m/callback/email?token=abcdefghi&source=email-abcdefghi-auth.login--

Take actions from Notifications

like Follow, Unfollow

Show publish frequency for users and publications (like Github)

Use https://github.com/sindresorhus/electron-config instead of storage.js

Enable JS/ES linting

Offline Editing

Auto format imported markdown/html text

Insert Screenshot into Story

Universal Dialog to Collect Ideas, Notes, Inspirations.

External Links should show a top bar similar to medium

We can show the medium logo and the other custom buttons for all external pages, so users can get back to home, go back / forward, pin / unpin pages or open them in external browser.

Find in Page

Provide a way to find any text within the current page

Dark Mode

Navigation to previous page needed!

Hey!
I have been using MediumDesk for a week now, and I must I say I love it! It is absolutely wonderful to be able to access Medium directly from the dock. The UI is seamless and it an absolute delight to read articles.

But my only problem with the entire app is the need to go to home every time I need to navigate back to the previous page. It really hampers the experience and flow of energy. I understand this is a community driven project, but I hope you are able to solve this asap.

Thank you for making this app! I use it everyday, and am loving every minute it. Haven't been on the website since downloading this.

Cheers!

Add a reminder to a draft

Support for multiple users

Create or edit article don't work

System

Running on High Sierra MacOS (10.13.6).
Downloaded the MediumDesk current version (0.2.1)

Actions

I can read my draft, but it is locked. I can't edit the article.
I don't have a New story on menu (like the browser version), so I can't create a new article.
Cmd N redirect to the home page
Scroll on some pages doesn't work (example: my draft article)

My menu

Am I missing anything?

"Open..." Menu option to Import a file as a Medium Draft

Users should be able to open a file from disk (txt, md, html) as a Medium Draft.

Show Native Notifications when there is a new notification in Medium + Tray Badge

Organize Stories

Organize published articles and drafts in Google Drive fashion so that publishers can manage their complete flow from here.

Quick Access Drafts

List drafts somewhere it is easier to access instead of loading the drafts page. It will also help switching between active drafts.

Tune Desktop behavior in Medium Settings page

Menu Bar Icon for quick access

Links to frequent actions and show notifications

Sync Drafts to Disk

Store drafts locally. Third party apps can access these files and analyze written text to highlight issues in their own view in realtime. Eg Grammarly, Hemingway, Expresso

Tab Support

Start in a different page other than Home (New Story or Drafts List)

Quick Search for Medium

Universal search dialog for quick search instead of loading the medium search page

Pin pages to keep them open (Button + Shortcut)

Users should also be able to see all their pins. Users should also be able to unpin pinned pages.

Project still lives?

Last commit is from 2017. Does no one continue working on this project?

Add a (Homebrew) Cask for MediumDesk

Open URLs starting with medium.com in MediumDesk

But this has a problem. We can't detect the publications with a custom domain.

Open in Browser (Button + Shortcut)

There should be a way to open the current page in the default browser. This feature will come in handy for users when they want to bookmark/share/apply any browser plugin to this page. It will also give them a way to keep it open for continuing later.