I like markdown a lot, and especially in combination of jekyll. The pipe goes like this:
- Co-draft in open-edit hackmd using markdown, make a newline per sentence
- Copy and paste the plaintext into jekyll repo, now under source control and every future change is diff’d
I don’t use hackmd’s navigation thing, it’s hacky af and prone to mistakes. It’s a throwaway pad that holds in-progress content that will make its way into jekyll. That’s why I am pushing for jekyll in the Meet.coop website thread, it makes the pipeline and division of labour a lot smoother (marketers author content, designers control layout).
Where hackmd fails in drafting is a doc that needs extensive review and wordsmithing. In a grant proposal we’d have 10 ppl each making 10 suggestions, hackmd has no way of coordinating that.