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Re:TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix prot... by agustif on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:07PM (#28020343)
Im looking into building a research collaboration platform, would like it to be like a google drive with markdown/latex.

Does that sound something appealing to work in a web document, instead of white boarding?

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Re:TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix prot... by abdullahkhalids on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:32PM (#28020940)
There are plenty of text based collaboration platforms, like Overleaf or Google/Microsoft docs etc, and they work well.

They do not replicate how scientists actually work in person. Text is often the last step, after much free form work on whiteboards and paper. That is what is missing from the market right now.

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Re:TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix prot... by asix66 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @02:53PM (#28020686)
Overleaf provides collaborative LaTeX [0]

[0] https://www.overleaf.com/

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Re:TheBoard: Collaborative Whiteboard powered by matrix prot... by sdfzug on Saturday July 31, 2021 @04:25PM (#28021280)
last time I used it, it didn't play well with simultaneous editing
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