本文作者分享了如何利用LessWrong的编辑器来提高写作效率，尤其是在移动设备上。作者曾使用Markdown静态网站生成器，但受限于电脑操作。LessWrong编辑器提供了随时随地写作、实时预览格式以及方便复制内容到个人网站等功能，显著增加了写作量。作者详细介绍了将LessWrong文章转换为个人网站文章的流程，包括编辑、格式转换、图片处理和元数据添加等步骤，并感谢Lightcone团队提供的优秀工具。

📝 **便捷的移动写作体验**：LessWrong编辑器解决了作者在非电脑环境下写作的难题。其跨平台访问能力和实时格式预览功能，使得用户可以随时随地构思和撰写文章，极大地降低了写作门槛，尤其方便了在手机上进行内容创作。

⚙️ **高效的内容迁移流程**：文章详细阐述了将LessWrong编辑器中的内容迁移至个人静态网站的步骤。这个流程包括在LessWrong编辑器中完成初稿，然后将其转换为Markdown格式，再复制到个人网站的Git仓库，并处理图片和添加元数据。这种方法使得作者能够先在LessWrong上发布并获得反馈，再将其转化为个人网站的正式内容。

💡 **激励与反馈的重要性**：作者强调了LessWrong编辑器在提升写作动力方面的作用，认为这是近期写作量增加的一半原因。此外，他也提到了来自Justis的早期反馈对建立写作信心的重要性，表明良好的工具和社区支持是促进内容创作的关键因素。

🔗 **链接帖功能的价值**：作者还利用了LessWrong的链接帖功能，将个人网站的文章链接回LessWrong，以获取“规范URL的信誉”。尽管提到LessWrong在链接帖的规范URL设置上可能存在问题，但这种交叉推广的策略依然有其价值。

Published on September 5, 2025 6:00 PM GMT

My personal website has been using a Markdown-based static site generator for years, since I wanted something easy (and cheap^[1]) and wanted to ensure that I wasn't tied to any particular piece of software. The one downside is that I have to write files into a git repo, so it's pretty hard to write posts when I'm not at my computer, and the trivial inconvenience prevents me from writing as much as I want.

LessWrong Editor

Enter: The LessWrong editor. This has several features that have helped me write a lot more on my phone:

I can access the editor from anywhere.I can quickly change formatting and see how it looks.When I'm happy with a post, I can copy the content to my personal site.

Being able to drag-and-drop images is really nice when editing on a computer, although I can't seem to get the ¶ symbol menu to work on my phone, so I do need to go on my computer to finish images. Having a post completely planned out still makes that much easier.

It's also nice that I can post to LessWrong, then do the conversion when I get around to it, including retroactively turning a post into a linkpost (for the canonical URL cred^[2]).

For example, I wrote this post on LessWrong, then copied it to my personal site, then shared it on Hacker News, and I likely wouldn't have done either of the later things if I didn't have a nice editor to make the first version.

Process

Write the post on LessWrong using the "LessWrong Docs" editor and post it.At some point, open the post in an editor and convert it from lessWrong Docs to Markdown (don't save since this is lossy).
You may need to Activate Markdown in the settings (under "Site Customizations"). Annoyingly, enabling Markdown makes it the default for all posts and comments, but you can manually change them back to LessWrong Docs.
Copy the Markdown into my static site's git repo.Copy the images.Add the appropriate metadata (title, date, preview image, link to LessWrong).Do some other cleanup^[3].Post on my site.Edit the LessWrong post again and turn it into a link post to my site.

 

So, thanks for the Lightcone team for making such a nice editor and letting me abuse the site's tooling like this. I credit this for at least half of why I started writing a lot more in the last month or so. Getting feedback from Justis on some of my earlier posts also helped a lot with my confidence.

1. ^{^}

   I paid Amazon 56 cents last month to host my website using S3 + CloudFront.

2. ^{^}

   Although looking at the source for this article, it looks like LessWrong doesn't set canonical URL's for link posts correctly?

   

3. ^{^}

   This process is still kind-of annoying, since Markdown doesn't have a way to say that an image is a caption, so I have to re-style captions on my site; plus I don't want to hotlink all of the images so I have to add them to my site and change the links.

   Finding the motivation to convert an already-successful post is much easier than finding the motivation to write a post from scratch though.

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