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How to Get Notified When Your Favorite Medium Writer Posts Something New
By email, regardless of where on Medium they publish something
Medium is full of amazing writers. Some of them are so good that I don’t want to miss a single story they post.
The only problem is that medium currently doesn’t have any inbuilt mechanism to ensure that you get notified whenever a particular writer posts something. Other platforms, such as YouTube, handle this better. On YouTube you can subscribe to a particular channel and then click on a little bell icon:
Then, whenever there is a new video posted in that channel, you get a notification.
While we wait for Medium to implement a similar feature, here’s an alternative approach to get notified by email whenever your favorite writer publishes something new anywhere on Medium. This will save you the time of having to look through the Medium homepage or having to go repeatedly to your favorite writer’s profile to see if they have anything new.
