How to Organise Your Medium Articles by Subject Matter

By popular demand

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Hundreds of people have asked me how I have formatted my articles so they appear on my profile page, organised by subject matter. Did you look at that fine photo above?

Ok, not hundreds: two, but I reckon another 193 wanted to know but were too shy to ask.

Step-by-step guide

First, go to your list section: it’s the little icon just above your stories on your Home page. I have circled it in blue here:

1. Open the Lists and create as many new Lists as you have subject matter. Make sure you save them as Public, not Private. You can see four of mine in the top picture, but I have twelve. Sigh. I know. I’ve failed on the niche front 😥
2. The boring part. You now have to go to each of your published articles and click on the list icon at the bottom of each story. It is the same icon as the blue-circled one in the picture above. Choose which list or lists to add each individual article to. If you have more than 50 published articles, I’ll meet you back here in a fortnight. Don’t forget to bookmark this page. Or clap on it, or…