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| ryan | technology | Creating meaningful, long #hastags can be a pain in the butt. There you are, writing up a witty tweet or making that perfect caption for your instagram pic and you realize that you have a fantastic idea for a hash tag that is more of a sentence than a single word. You proceed to write it out and unleash your masterpiece to the world and just as you hit the submit button you notice that you have a typo, or the wrong spelling of a word and #ohcrap you need to delete and retweet! That lead me to write a [Drafts](https://getdrafts.com) Action to take care of that. I’ll leave [others to write about the virtues of Drafts](https://www.macstories.net/reviews/drafts-5-the-macstories-review/), but it’s fantastic. The Action I created has two steps: (1) to run some JavaScript and (2) to copy the contents of the draft to the Clipboard. You can get my action [here](https://actions.getdrafts.com/a/1Uo). Here’s the JavaScript that I used to take a big long sentence and turn it into a social media worthy hashtag var contents = draft.content; var newContents = "#"; editor.setText(newContents+contents.replace(/ /g, "").toLowerCase()); Super simple, but holy crap does it help! | 2019-03-30 | creating-hastags-for-social-media-with-a-drafts-action | Creating meaningful, long #hastags can be a pain in the butt. There you are, writing up a witty tweet or making that perfect caption for your instagram pic and you realize that you have a fantastic idea for a hash tag that is more of a sentence than a single … | Creating Hastags for Social Media with a Drafts Action | https://www.ryancheley.com/2019/03/30/creating-hastags-for-social-media-with-a-drafts-action/ |