Testing Creating A Draft Using Github Actions

How useful this will be… I don’t know. But I now have a way to create a draft blog post from my mobile using GitHub Actions. Here’s how.

First I have a GitHub Action that creates and commits a file. This uses the GitHub bot that is present in all Action workflows.

Secondly creating the file is done via Hugo. The Hugo commands know how to create posts using the new keyword. I rely on the fact that I already have a template file set up that creates the skeleton of a post with the correct front matter.

Lastly I trigger the Action using a workflow_dispatch. This lets me input a file name before I start the Acton. That’s it. A draft is created ready for new to start editing.

The editing experience on mobile isn’t great. So I will limit myself to short posts that only require text. Maybe that’s a good thing in the long run. But I still have the ability to create larger more media rich drafts that will wait for me when I get home to finalise.

This post was entirely created on mobile. Excuse any spelling mistakes.