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Tips for Using Lists on Medium — And How They Relate to the Supermarket

A few thoughts about lists on Medium, sugar, tea, baking ingredients, and cereal!

Trust me. The title will make sense later. Maybe…

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The need for lists

When you write a large number of articles online, there usually comes a time when you want to organise or group them in some way:

• When I used WordPress, I used categories
• Here on Medium, I use lists

(There are other options when using publications, but I only self-publish so I will only consider lists here.)

Creating and adding to lists

• Click the bookmark symbol on one of your stories
• A menu will pop up which lets you create a list, or add the story to an existing one
• Unchecking removes your story from that list

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Managing lists

• Click Lists near the top of your home page to manage your lists
• Click on one of your lists to view it

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List settings

After you have clicked on a list, click the … to bring up the menu

• Edit the list info — name, description, privacy
• Remove items — an easy way to remove multiple items at once
• Make list private/public — controls whether other people see the list
• Reorder items — you can drag list items up and down into your preferred order
• Delete list — permanently removes the list