The most exciting internet trend of the last few years is the return of the blog. People are posting again. Awesome.

I use “blog” a little more loosely than I used to. The big boom has taken many forms: email newsletters, for example, remind me a lot of the early days of blogging. But I’ve also noticed that in our post-Twitter, post-Facebook social media hell, more people are starting websites and publishing their thoughts on websites they own. I’ve definitely started using my personal blog more since setting up WordPress’ Fediverse integration: I have an active comments section for the first time in over a decade, and I love it.

The problem, as a creator, is that writing, editing, and submitting posts in the web version of WordPress is a bit of a hassle. I prefer to use local applications that actually live on my computer whenever possible, which is why I was so happy to discover Marsedit. It’s a beautiful Mac application that makes managing a blog a lot easier. It’s faster than loading WordPress, and it integrates nicely with my operating system.

Open the application and you will be prompted to add your blog URLs. You can add as many as you want. Do this and you will see all your posts and pages in one place.