HedgeDoc
Real-time collaborative Markdown behind your own firewall: HedgeDoc (formerly CodiMD,
descended from HackMD's open-source edition) keeps team notes on team infrastructure. Share a
note's URL and collaborators are editing together instantly - live cursors, changes appearing
keystroke by keystroke - in a three-mode interface that toggles between raw Markdown, rendered
preview, and side-by-side split. The Markdown dialect is extended where engineers need it:
Mermaid, Graphviz, and Vega-Lite diagrams, MathJax for equations, syntax-highlighted code
blocks, embedded content, and a presentation mode that turns a note into reveal.js slides with
a single YAML header. A dropdown permission system controls each note - freely editable,
limited to signed-in users, or locked read-only - and published notes become clean read-only
pages for wider distribution. Revisions track every change with the ability to revert to any
earlier version. The AGPL-3.0 codebase is light enough to run on a Raspberry Pi and deploys
via Docker with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or SQLite. Authentication covers LDAP, SAML, OAuth2, and
email. It deliberately stays a focused document editor - no page trees or kanban - and does
that one job with excellent keyboard-first ergonomics for meeting notes, RFCs, runbooks, and
shared scratchpads.
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