Hi all, in recent workshops, we’ve switched to using hackmd.io for collaborative note taking, and a couple times Carpentry instructors have gone “oh no, another tool… HOLY COW THIS IS AMAZING”
So I wanted to introduce it to the list! Briefly, hackmd.io is an open source [0] collaborative Markdown editing tool that (I think) Luiz Irber introduced me to. It is quite pretty, supports interactive collaborative editing and rendering, and seems to scale quite well (at least we have been using it with 30+ people in a classroom). It seems like a 90% replacement for Etherpad, with the two caveats that (1) it doesn’t have a live chat. (2) to avoid login requirements, you need to explicitly set the permissions after creation to allow “guest editing” by anyone who has the URL - the default permissions restrict editing. But if you are logged in, you get a list of notepads that you touched recently, so that’s actually quite nice. I have to say that I really like being able to interactively write nice looking notes in Markdown and then transfer them to GitHub for later reference. Anyway, this has been a really robust and friendly tool for us so I thought I’d share! best, —titus [0] https://github.com/hackmdio/hackmd _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
