SEPTEMBER MEDIUM CHALLENGE
Using Kickers and Lists
Drive readers to your related content
When it comes to Medium tools and guides, Casey Botticello is a leading writer and expert. I referenced him and his comprehensive formatting guide in What I’ve Learned So Far: An update on my September writing challenge 7 days in, and I am referencing him again when it comes to kickers, the text you can add above your title. I am not going to rewrite the great guide he has created, so be sure to check it out if you are unfamiliar with kickers. I am, however, going to expand upon his use of them.
I was searching tags the other day to see which ones best fit my story, and I came across Mary DeVries’ page in the process. I was flabbergasted when I saw she had used her About Me page to group her articles by topic using public lists.
What?! I can use lists this way?! It seems obvious to me now, but I just started making use of lists and creating new private ones in addition to the default reading list.
Then I remembered Casey published an article about kickers two years ago. He uses them to group articles by theme in his publication. On this post, Nicole Chardenet left a comment asking for clarification on using kickers to link back to a central page. At the time the leading answer from Casey was to…
