How to Make Custom GPTs — AI Writing Assistants for Medium

Make GPTs to Improve Your Writing Productivity on Medium

4 min readJun 12, 2024

I love the idea of custom GPTs to improve productivity. But up until yesterday, I couldn’t figure out how to make anything that improved anything — let alone improve my productivity.

I couldn’t figure out how to speed up my productivity because I was using ChatGPT and GPT’s totally wrong — especially for writing articles.

I’m sure everyone has tried using ChatGPT to write an entire article — Then threw it in the trash 🗑️

I realized it should be a helper — not a writer. This idea changed everything for me.

I finally made a GPT I will actually use for writing on Medium. The cool thing is, I’m giving it to you for free. You can completely customize it with no coding. 😎

I also made a video that shows you exactly how I did it:

Custom GPT that Posts on Medium — Personal Writing Assistant

I do put a code snippet in the video — But you can get it below

Put your email in here

In the welcome email, you will get the code to cut and paste. You can find it in the Google Doc link. Search for “GPT Medium Draft Robot Schema”

You can watch the video or get the full instructions here

Here’s What I Made: My Article Writing Assistant GPT

If you’re a content creator, this is for you. This GPT helps you draft and publish articles on Medium.

What does My GPT Medium Poster do?

Choose a Topic: It picks a topic for you.
Create an Outline: It generates a detailed outline.
Make a Catchy Title: It comes up with an engaging title.
Include Relevant Links: It finds relevant links to include in your article.
Publish to Medium: It can even post your draft directly to Medium.

The awesome part is that you can change any of the above in the instructions of the GPT.

You write what you want it to do — no coding

How to Set It Up

Connect to Medium:

Log in to your Medium account.
Click on your profile icon at the top right.
Go to Settings > Security and Apps > Integration Tokens.
Generate an API key and copy it.

Integrate with GPT:

Open your GPT interface.
Enter the Medium API key.
Save the settings.

In the “Configure” tab of your GPT, scroll to the bottom and click “Create New Action” This is the part that connects with Medium through their API.

Save the settings exactly like it is in the screenshot above. Put your actual Medium API key in the above API Key box highlighted in blue and save.

In the Schema part you need to paste some code as well.

Put your email in here

In the Welcome Email, you will get the code to cut and paste. You can find it in the Google Doc link. Search for “GPT Medium Draft Robot Schema”

Click “Update” in the top right of the GPT.

Your GPT is ready to go and post to Medium once you give it a few writing instructions.

My instructions for the current GPT settings are there also if you want to use that as a start.

Using the GPT: Example from Video

You can choose any topic. After the GPT makes the draft, you can talk with it until you are ready to post your draft to Medium.

Choose a Topic: “AI and How to Make Money Online.”
GPT Creates Content: It generates an outline, title, and relevant links.
Approve or Edit: Review the content and make adjustments if needed.
Publish: The GPT posts the draft to Medium. You can review and publish it directly from Medium.

Customize the GPT — Your Writing Assistant

In the instructions, you can tell the assistant whatever you want.

You can also give the GPT sample articles of your writing style to make it sound more like you — even for summaries and headlines.

You can also extend the GPT to do more and add more APIs.

I’ve been experimenting with other ideas such as a news researcher GPT. It will give you any of the latest news and articles and post in my Medium draft.

This is a huge time saver when you want more sources for your articles.

I will be publishing more about GPT’s so please clap and follow me on Medium and my other channels below.

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