codimd

This site is built on CodiMD, which seems like a really cool platform for editing and publishing markdown: https://github.com/hackmdio/CodiMD

I guess this is a competitor to services such as overleaf [1] and codimd [2]. Although this is yet another syntax, it seems to be supported by pandoc [3]. Lately, I have been using Quarto [4] more and more as I program in R, which also produces very nice outputs, especially HTML. But none of these solve the academic usage problems of (1) producing nice diffs for reviewers, and (2) can easily be shared with, and commented by, non-technical collaborators. Thus, I fear Word will be difficult to replace for many years, at least in my field, for scientific writing [1] https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf [2] https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd [3] https://pandoc.org/typst-property-output.html [4] https://quarto.org/

Honestly, it might be better to use a realtime collaboration service. If you need to you could automatically sync this with the GitHub version by pulling updates on a schedule. I've used hackmd.io for real-time collaboration in Markdown. They even offer an open-source self-hosted version, https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd. There may be other services as well.

For small collaborative work CodiMD is great https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd

The HackMD version of CodiMD[1] also supports this, letting you collaboratively edit a PlantUML diagram embedded in a Markdown document. [1]: https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd Some improvement suggestions: * Implement shareable URLs (the session name should be in the URL). * Don't immediately prompt a session name but explain the purpose of the website. * Link the PlantUML documentation.

I use a self-hosted HackMD (now CodiMD) [1] instance for this. The hosted version pushes more and more towards account creation but you can start without account by visiting [2] directly. They have real time collaboration and a long list of additional plugins [3] that allow all kinds of nice collaboration use cases. For example it is possible to convert some bullet points into a presentation with minimal effort. What does Write.md provide compared to HackMD? Not affiliated with HackMD, just a happy user and always curious about alternatives. [1] https://github.com/hackmdio/codimd [2] https://hackmd.io/new [3] https://hackmd.io/features