Steem tips and tools

I'm starting a series of useful tips and tricks I found for Steem. Feel free to complete the list in the comments.

How to create several accounts

Account creation on Steem blockchain isn't free as witnesses spend resources for that. When you register on Steemit, Steemit Inc is paying this fee for you. However, if you need more accounts, use Anon Steem service made by Hive account@someguy123.

How to search on Steemit

Google search offered by default isn't always helpful. There's a nicer way to find posts with asksteem.com by Hive account@thekyle. It also provides advanced user search and lots of details for posts:

How to see the edit history of a Steemit post

The Steem blockchain is immutable, so you can see any revision and there's no way to delete a post (you can just change it). To see all the revisions, add phist.steemdata.com/history?identifier= before steemit.com for any post's url. Or open https://phist.steemdata.com and add the url there. Thanks to Hive account@furion for building it and to Hive account@cass for funding the project.

How to insert an image in the post or comment

If you want to insert an image from other site, just replace the url in ![](url) (you can also add a description inside []). Also you can just copy the image (not the image link) and paste directly into the post field, steemit will upload it.

How to format the text

You should use Markdown Syntax. To make things simpler there's a great visual editor by Hive account@newandold: http://www.steemstyle.com.

How to add a media

To add a video, just paste youtube or vimeo url into the post. To add a soundcloud track, click there on Share/Embeded and copy the iframe code into the post. Other providers aren't available for now.

You might want your videos to be decentralized, it could be available in future. Also Hive account@furion is developing Viewly.

How to add a nice short link

Use steem.link by Hive account@cryptotony. It offers a detailed analytics and geotargeting.

How to analyze your followers

To see who follows, unfollows and mutes you, use Steem Followers analytics service created by Hive account@shaunmza.

To find dead followers (users that didn't post for a specific time), use Dead Followers service by Hive account@mynameisbrian.

Just type your username.

What's the user's upvote worth

There's a great tool by Hive account@penguinpablo where you can check user's voting power, upvotes and rewards: steemnow.com. Just type the username. It will remember the last introduced one, so you can anytime see what's you power.

How to predict which post will be trending for specific tags

Use steem-ganymede from Hive account@inertia, which is based on AI to find articles.

How to protect and monitor your account

Use SteemData Notify by Hive account@furion, which is a free blockchain monitoring service, that sends you (the account owner) Email and Telegram notifications when Payments and critical Account Changes occur. Find more details here.