Thanks, I'll check it out.

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017, 8:59 PM Juan Nunez-Iglesias <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
>> >
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