Hi titus -
Thanks for the rec! That's a neat tool -- and I really like the thought
of making a "notes" page on the workshop GitHub site afterwards.
I'm curious about three things -
- Do you find that the impulse to make things "pretty" slows down your
learners?
- One of the things about Etherpad that I have mixed feelings about is
attribution -- the fact that each person's contributions have a
different color lets you see at a glance who's contributing. Do you
think that not having that in a hackmd.io document is a good thing or a
bad thing?
- One of the things I always promise my learners is that the Etherpad
will be around essentially forever (ie, as long as SWC exists.) Do you
expect the same with a hackmd document? Or is that why you transfer to
a GitHub page afterwards?
(I'm putting together a new workshop site today, so these things are on
my mind. (-; )
Regards,
Brian
On 07/01/2017 11:12 AM, C. Titus Brown 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
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