You can also set "allowfreeurl" to true in config.json.  Then you can go to
any free URL and create a new document.

Here's an instance of hackmd where allowfreeurl=true:
https://hack.allmende.io/asdfasdfasdf

Great tool!  Thanks for the heads-up!

* -- Brandon*

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 6:02 PM, Abhijit Dasgupta <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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