My hatred for Confluence, Notion et al. has motivated me to explore prototyping a seedling for a collaboration tool that is plaintext-friendly, built on top of Org and is still friendly for non-techies who are familiar with Notion, Google Docs and the likes in terms of usability.<p>The page currently just renders <a href="https://gitlab.com/formation.tools/eng/engineering/-/raw/main/README.org" rel="nofollow">https://gitlab.com/formation.tools/eng/engineering/-/raw/mai...</a> which is effectively the file we use to align on work internally, so we're dogfooding this. Eventually, I would like to be able to just show any git repo and offer collaborative editing that effects a git commit at the end. For the WYSIWYG bit, I'll be meeting with the author of ProseMirror and CodeMirror over coffee next week (hopefully) to spar on good ways to implement this.<p>Roast away, good folks! I can use the feedback especially since I don't know if I'm the only idiot who wants to collab just in plaintext (without forcing my colleagues to Emacs).
Damn, I typed a comment yesterday when I saw this and then got distracted by work and closed my browser without submitting it.<p>Trying to summarize what I wrote then:<p>- This looks pretty cool and it's awesome that you launched it early for public reception - I tend to keep working on things forever and never launch, so good on you!
- Styling is a bit wonky in places and I was surprised that the anchors didn't work - maybe remove the anchor links until the targets are there?
- I'm a fan of Trello and an "accepter" of Notion
- Huge fan of structured plaintext formats
- Never got into org-mode, but if this gets visual editing, it might be my gateway
- Love how it's a text file but casually also Trello and a Calendar and ... maybe other things?
- Looking forward to the next iteration that can open external files, and to collaboration features! Is the idea to keep using Git as a backend?