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# real-time collaborative editing software
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Re-turning to this real-time collaborative editing dive, visiting different softwares, histories and environments.
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# Desktop based & peer-to-peer
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## Hyperpad-desktop
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Using Electron, which makes it cross-platform accessible.
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>>> p2p ??
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## Gobby (!)
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https://gobby.github.io/
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"Gobby is a collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat."
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https://www.infinote.org/ (infinote protocol)
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https://github.com/gobby/libinfinity (infinotes, a stand-alone infinote server)
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https://pypi.org/project/Py-Infinote/ (python library speaking infinote)
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https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote (javascript implementation of infinote)
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gobby/testing,now 0.6.0~20170204~e5c2d1-3 amd64 [installed]
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infinote-based collaborative text editor
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infinoted/testing 0.7.1-1 amd64
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dedicated server for infinote-based collaborative editing
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tiny note: tried to install it on a mac os (failed eventually after 30 min install time) and brew overwrote my prev python + other installations. :| luckily nothing broke! but it was a tiny moment of suprise... yes.... shit! my mistake for not installing it in a venv :S hope everything is oke again now! yep all good :] not sure though if you can install it in a venv, as it is an apt package. ah ok, i installed it through brew, so it's very possible that brew messed up. but very curious to try on a linux machine! haha, great merge of sentences ;). :P git merge, real-time syncing! ;) great document mb btw! i love the insertion of chatty notes :D ahah that's definitely something i can help with :O hehe ! We have a great color match as well atm. ;) so 90s, i use to love pink and purple combinations. hahaha yes all we need is another light green shade and a Patagonia logo in a top right corner
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Using infinoted
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https://github.com/gobby/gobby/wiki/Dedicated%20Server download links and plugins
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https://www.mankier.com/1/infinoted-0.7 man page
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http://techmonks.net/working-together-on-text-and-source-code-with-gobby-and-infinoted/ tutorial
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Setup a Gobby server
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1. install infinoted
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2. create the file /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf and add the following settings:
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[infinoted]
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security-policy=require-tls
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certificate-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.cert
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key-file=/etc/xdg/infinoted.key
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password=YOURPASSWORDHERE
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autosave-interval=5
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root-directory=/var/data/gobby/data
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sync-directory=/var/data/gobby/export
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sync-interval=120
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3. run infinoted with --create-certificate --create-key to generate the certificate and key ($ infinoted --create-certificate --create-key)
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4. start infinoted on every restart of the server. Edit the file /etc/rc.local and add this:
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# starts up infinoted (gobby server)
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# configuration file is in /etc/xdg/infinoted.conf
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infinoted &
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5. restart the server
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# Browser based & peer-to-peer
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## Conclave
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https://conclave-team.github.io/conclave-site/
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"A private and secure real-time collaborative text editor"
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"a peer-to-peer, real-time, collaborative text editor built from scratch in JavaScript."
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Great documentation about Conflict-Free Replicated Data Type (CRDT) and their peer-to-peer architecture!
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>>> not maintained anymore
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## IPFS & pubsub
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Pubsub is a decentralized "pattern" (this is how they call it) that can be used for
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collaborative writing
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chat
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multiplayer games
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constantly evolving datasets
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webservice workers passing around messages
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> from https://blog.ipfs.io/25-pubsub/
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>>> tiny note: have tried it and it is not ideal, but it is interesting in terms of streaming text without any authorship indication
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Their next blogpost: "Decentralized Real-Time Collaborative Documents - Conflict-free editing in the browser using js-ipfs and CRDTs"
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https://blog.ipfs.io/30-js-ipfs-crdts.md
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"In this 10-minute video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kdx8rJd8rQ] I show you how we can use the js-ipfs library and conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs) to build a simple text editor that allows several peers to collaborate in real-time. The resulting interactions between the nodes are conflict-free, support offline use, and allow nodes to come in and out of the network while continuously converging data to a single state in all the nodes."
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PubSub
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pubsub = publish & subscribe pattern
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern
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"This pattern provides greater network scalabilityanda more dynamic network topology, with a resulting decreased flexibility to modify the publisher and the structure of the published data."
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## Dat multiwriter
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https://blog.datproject.org/2018/05/14/dat-shopping-list/
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a first step, but in order to sync with other writers through the browser, the application needs to connect to a node.js server elsewhere (called the gateway).
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https://ar.al/2018/08/04/multiwriter-dat-could-power-the-next-web/
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>>> in development
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# Browser based & single server
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## Etherpad lite
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"In 2009, Google started beta testing Google Wave, a real-time collaboration environment which Google hoped would eventually displace email and instant messaging.[citation needed] EtherPad was acquired by Google, which allocated the EtherPad team to work within the Wave project. However, Google announced in August 2010 on its blog[7] that it had decided to stop developing Wave as a standalone project, due to insufficient user adoption. After Google released the abandoned EtherPad source code as open source in December 2009, the community took over its development and produced a complete rewrite named Etherpad lite, which is written entirely in JavaScript and built on top of node.js." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
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A list of active public SSL secured pad servers: <https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Sites-that-run-Etherpad-Lite>
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## CodiMD
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<https://demo.codimd.org/> demo server
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<https://hackmd.io/> CodiMD is a (recent -- March 2019) fork of HackMD, <https://github.com/codimd/server/blob/master/docs/history.md> documentation of the history of this project
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<https://github.com/codimd/cli> a CLI tool for CodiMD, with options to export to html/pdf/slides/md
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## textb
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<https://textb.org/t/ymh6lj10lo/>
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* markdown support
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* python/django based
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by <https://r-w-x.org/>
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## hackmd
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https://hackmd.io/
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## PeerPad
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https://peerpad.net
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https://github.com/peer-base/peer-pad
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"PeerPad is a decentralized editor that allows concurrent writing of text. Besides making live changes to a given document, it allows read-only nodes to follow the changes in real-time. It also allows you to publish a self-contained snapshot of the document to IPFS."
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## ShareDB
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https://github.com/dennisdebel/artce
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nodejs try out, using operational transforms for conflict free collaborative editing. (Not production ready).
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## CKEditor 5
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https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-rich-text-editor-with-real-time-collaboration/
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* WYSIWYG rich text collaborative editor
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* backend as a SaaS solution
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## Convergence
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https://convergence.io/
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* collaborative editing framework, providing a server and database with javascript API
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* try before you buy
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# Document-based collaborative editing?
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The examples are pretty interesting. Specially the offline writing and online syncing combination is a promising feature...
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But all the text stays in the browser? It would be great to store local copies of the text directly, preferrably as files.
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Plus, the NodeJS javascript heaviness is not so attractive.
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Is there software that works p2p, allows for discovery in your current local network, and saves local copies of the document as (plain) text documents?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=13&v=qI8r8D46JOY - Doug Engelbart "Mother of All Demos" (1968) presenting collaborative editing
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http://www.realjabber.org/ - real time editing over XMPP
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https://linux.die.net/man/1/ytalk - ytalk real-time & multi-user chat version of talk
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http://www.realtimetext.org/ - RealTimeText.org is a website to stimulate knowledge in the field of Real-Time Text (RTT)
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http://www.realtimetext.org/sites/default/files/images/FastText-logo_outline_300.png Fast Text logo ;)
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# Links
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* <https://juretriglav.si/open-source-collaborative-text-editors/> review article mainly about CKEditor 5 & Atlaskit Editor (by Jure Triglav, May 2019)
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* <https://github.com/JefMari/awesome-wysiwyg> listings of web real-time collaborative rich text editing software (same author as article above)
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* <https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html> an article on local-first software, mostly covering collaborative editing tools, but also others (such as pixelpusher)
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* <https://diversions.constantvzw.org/wiki/index.php?title=Eventual_Consistency> article by Michael Murtaugh in the DiVersions publication, on the underlying algorithms/mechanisms of Etherpad and "diffractive technotexts"
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Technotexts: When a literary work interrogates the inscription technology that produces it, it mobilizes relexive loops between its imaginative world and the material apparatus embodying that creation as a physical presence. - N. Katherine Hayles, Writing Machines (MIT press, 2002), 25.
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