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 >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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