Hi Abhijit, Use a service like bitly.com to shorten the URL. With a free Bitly account, you can customise any link to bit.ly/my-preferred-url (as long as that suffix hasn’t been used before).
Juan. On 5 Jul 2017, 5:24 AM +1000, Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected]>, wrote: > Is there any way to make the URL more "English" than the random one I'm > seeing? At least something more typable? > > > On Sat, Jul 1, 2017, 1:57 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 > > > > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
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