Medium has its fair share of the user base. Many bloggers choose it as one of the platforms to increase their brand awareness and drive more traffic to their sites.

That being said, it’s still hard to imagine that Medium doesn’t support the table feature, which is very common and basic in HTML, and also enjoys a wider user base.

For instance, a table like this can’t be easily added to Medium:

ID Name Age
1 Mike 19
2 Annie 17
3 Tom 18

Which is why so many writers choose to replace the tables in their writing with more creative ways of expression. For instance:

Some may use a list instead of a table:

  • Mike, 19
  • Annie, 17
  • Tom, 18

Some would choose to use an image like this:

A table image

But the downside with the image is, if you don’t make it search engine friendly enough, it’s very likely that Google won’t be able to ‘find’ it, which could cost you potential clients or users.

But that’s the history now.

If you write on Inspire Writer, publish your work containing tables in it to Medium won’t be a problem anymore. This is because Inspire allows you to create a table with the (table) markdown syntax. In this case, when you publish your writing to Medium, the table will show automatically, without you having to adjust its presentation or capture a screenshot of the table.

This is a post on how  the table on Medium will look like.

Of course, Inspire Writer is not without its restriction: it now can handle a table whose width is less than 68 characters, but we do believe that it can be improved in future versions.

Over to you

So what do you think? Do you want to keep your writing well-organized and make a good impression for your readers? If so, would you have a go at Inspire Writer, the markdown editor? Why and why not? Please feel free to let us know your thoughts in the comment section, or what more you’d like to hear from us.

Happy writing!