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 >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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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