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Advice for a collaborative text editor (mander.xyz)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Hello, I'm looking for a simple collaborative text editor. We do have an office 365 subscription and it works, but the 10 minutes loading time every time you open a document are taking a strain on my mental sanity.

We don't need nothing too fancy, markdown support would be a plus, especially with embedded latex formulas and possibly bibfile references.

The things I really need are a simple ways to add comments to text and a changes view to immediately see what a collaborator modified.

I've been taking a look at hackmd, it kind of fulfills the role, but the pricing is a bit high for the features available.

Could be self hosted too, but to be fair I'd rather not have to maintain it.

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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (1 child)

HedgeDoc also seems like an option that could do some of this. Self-hostable and open source (last I checked).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    I tried the hedgedoc demo.

    As far as I can see it supports latex and has some change revision mechanism. Unfortunately no bib file support, but I guess that's ok.

    However, I can not find a way to add comments to the rendered text. Is that possible on the self hosted version?

    That would be a deal breaker, most of what I need is actually reading documents written by other people and ask for clarifications or improvements.

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