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For anyone else trying to move off Medium - it's more complicated than it sounds (there is no single chronological index of your content, for example) - we wrote up some tips and tools we used recently: https://www.reifyworks.com/writing/2019-02-27-some-tips-on-m...

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Seems like a good idea to check for and try any export tools before adding content to a system. Furthermore if the site provides the export tool there's no guarantee they wont take it away or modify it.

The best approach is to keep your source of truth out of the Medium platform from the start. You can use the "import post" functionality to tag your original off-Medium post as the canonical one, which gives you the best of both worlds: Medium discoverability plus full control over your content. https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214550207-Import-a...

I think we can be sure they won't do it because of GDPR.

Buried in the settings somewhere is a zipball of all of your content you can download. I wrote a tool you can feed it to which generates a Jekyll blog for you:

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/unmediumify

Note: don't do what briandoll did and skip the Google Analytics, please.

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