My goal was to figure out how I can use StackEdit as an editor for blogs that are built by Jekyll and hosted on Github Pages.

Next Steps:

• Create a workspace that encapsulates _drafts and _posts and all the other folders in the jekyll folder structure.
• Figure out how to move or publish the posts that are sitting as drafts.

Progress thus far:

1. Created a new account on GitHub to circumvent the scary/annoying fact that StackEdit requires complete access to all private repos in a GitHub account before they can be used together.
2. Created a repo named <username>.github.io because that is the de-facto standard for the project that automatically becomes hosted as a GitHub Page website.
3. Selected the Theme Chooser’s hack theme and it automatically generated the first two jekyll-oriented files in the project for me.
4. Created a new workspace in StackEdit:
   • Workspaces > Add a GitHub backed workspace
     • Repo URL: https://github.com/<username>/<username>.github.io
     • Folder Path: _drafts
     • Branch: master
5. Renamed the welcome file to: using-stackedit-with-jekyll-and-github-pages
6. Switched over to my github repo and confirmed that the file had been created inside the appropriate directory, with the appropriate file extension: _drafts/using-stackedit-with-jekyll-and-github-pages.md

Written with StackEdit.