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  • So there are engineers building component CMSs for Markdown to help engineers edit product docs, and there are product people building component CMSs for DITA XML to help product people edit customer docs, and never the twain shall meet because an engineer would rather jump into a burning building than share a repo with DITA XML. Even when there's an interface layer on top of it with features that are fully indistinguishable from this product.

    The future is batshit. I hate DITA and I still think this is deeply funny, in the same way as falling into my own grave and realizing they're throwing dirt on me would be funny.

    by starkparker
  • Currently, teams work with MD files more and more, as do I, simply because AI is good at it. The problem I encountered is when I need to share with non-engineers and collaborate with teammates: mention them, leave comments, reply to them, and get notifications when someone mentions me. I won't even mention that I miss the opportunity to easily edit MD files without touching pure MD syntax.

    Frankly speaking, before creating my own tool, for many months I tried different approaches: continuing to work with MD, pushing MD to Notion and Google Docs, getting from Google Docs, and indexing with AI. All of them had drawbacks, especially when we needed to sync documents—eventually, everyone gave up doing it.

    Moved by the idea to keep everything simple, and understanding that in the AI era we generate MD files, I decided to create a tool that allows us to work with MD files in Git but provides the power of Google Docs collaboration features on top of it and hides all Git complexity.

    You can share a link to a document from Notula with your colleague, and it will automatically download, open, and set up Notula on your colleague's computer (like Zoom). Your colleague can edit, leave comments, and Notula automatically pushes it back to the repository. No Git knowledge, no instructions for colleagues—just share the link and they are in.

    Please try it out, and let me know if it's really easy to use, especially if you are not an engineer. If it's not, I look forward to your feedback.

    by anetrebskii

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