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I've been using this for some things recently, and it's quite nice, but I still prefer Google Docs. As Ericson2314 noted in another comment, it's missing a good

I've been using this for some things recently, and it's quite nice, but I still prefer Google Docs. As Ericson2314 noted in another comment, it's missing a good permissions models. It's also lacking a robust suggestions and commenting system, which makes using it to collaborate much harder than I'd like.

HankB99 6y ago
I've used Google Docs a lot for taking notes on managing my "home computer lab." It fell down when I tried to copy commands I typed into a command shell and then copied/pasted into a Google document and then pasted back into the command shell. There was invisible reformatting that broke this in non-obvious ways. .Two consecutive spaces were converted to something that looked like spaces in the terminal but were not interpreted as such by the shell I've been using Mkdocs since which uses Markdown and that preserves text perfectly. The formatting is lacking a bit but I can put up with that for the benefit of knowing when I copy a command from a document to a command shell (and often running as root) it is going to be exactly the same as what I originally typed. The major downside to me is lack of standardization. Things don;t always look the same depending on which Markdown renderer I'm using (editor built in, Github, Makocs etc.)
- autarch 6y ago
  Yeah, Google Docs is not great for documents with lots of code in them. There's an add-on called Code Blocks which helps a bit, but it's still nowhere near as simple as Markdown.
solidasparagus 6y ago
I hate suggesting competitors in the comments, but I have had good success using Quip for collaborative markdown editing, commenting, etc.
- frank2 6y ago
  Quip is not open source whereas CodiMD is.
nicpottier 6y ago
Ya, I feel like the commenting system in Google docs is the main killer feature for collaboration. I would love to use Markdown for everything (can we just make it a standard email format already?) but the commenting system in Google docs is keeping us there for the time being.

HankB99 6y ago

I've used Google Docs a lot for taking notes on managing my "home computer lab." It fell down when I tried to copy commands I typed into a command shell and then copied/pasted into a Google document and then pasted back into the command shell. There was invisible reformatting that broke this in non-obvious ways. .Two consecutive spaces were converted to something that looked like spaces in the terminal but were not interpreted as such by the shell I've been using Mkdocs since which uses Markdown and that preserves text perfectly. The formatting is lacking a bit but I can put up with that for the benefit of knowing when I copy a command from a document to a command shell (and often running as root) it is going to be exactly the same as what I originally typed. The major downside to me is lack of standardization. Things don;t always look the same depending on which Markdown renderer I'm using (editor built in, Github, Makocs etc.)

autarch 6y ago
Yeah, Google Docs is not great for documents with lots of code in them. There's an add-on called Code Blocks which helps a bit, but it's still nowhere near as simple as Markdown.

solidasparagus 6y ago

I hate suggesting competitors in the comments, but I have had good success using Quip for collaborative markdown editing, commenting, etc.

frank2 6y ago
Quip is not open source whereas CodiMD is.

nicpottier 6y ago

Ya, I feel like the commenting system in Google docs is the main killer feature for collaboration. I would love to use Markdown for everything (can we just make it a standard email format already?) but the commenting system in Google docs is keeping us there for the time being.