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> On Jul 1, 2017, at 08:12, C. Titus Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
