A script to create drafts

[EmilMoe]

I found it a bit tedious to start my posts from scratch every time and couldn't see a feature to start a boilerplate, so I created this script. You can save it in any file you prefer, I call mine draft:

chmod +x draft
./draft "My Next Blog Post"

I use Typora so I added that as a default starter (works on macOS).

The script:

#!/bin/bash

# Check if a title is provided
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 \"Blog Post Title\""
  exit 1
fi

# Variables
TITLE="$1"
SLUG=$(echo "$TITLE" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cd '[:alnum:] \n\r' | tr ' ' '-')
DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
FILE_NAME="$SLUG.mdx"

# Directory where the blog posts are stored
BLOG_DIR="data/blog"

# Create the new post file
cat <<EOF > "$BLOG_DIR/$FILE_NAME"
---
title: '$TITLE'
date: '$DATE'
tags: []
draft: true
summary: 'This is a placeholder summary.'
---
Write your post content here.
EOF

# Open the new post file with Typora
open -a Typora "$BLOG_DIR/$FILE_NAME"

echo "New blog post created and opened with Typora: $BLOG_DIR/$FILE_NAME"

Didn't feel this was closely enough to the project for a PR, so thought I would share it here instead.