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HackMD vs Skiff
- Both use Markdown which have more functionality than doc based files.
- Skiff has better security
- Multi-factor authentication
- End-to-end encryption
- Skiff can import multiple files from the local computer.
- Skiff has a better UX
- Skiff has a GUI to handle Markdown.
- Auto-light/dark modes based on settings.
- Skiff has more investment and resources to build from $14.2mm of fundraising.
- HackMD has better publishing tools.
- Custom urls
- Upload to Arweave
- HackMD has better version control with GitHub.
- HackMD has better export all files feature.
HackMD vs Google Docs
- HackMD is more decentralized
- HackMD allows for an easy download of all notes in .md file format.
- The .md file format is preserved when downloaded and can be hosted publicly easier than Google's downloaded universal .docx files.
- HackMD .md files have more native functionality
- Code blocks
- Embed
- GitHub Gists
- Figmas
- PDFs
- Mathematical equations
- Quoted text sections
- Set browser behavior: Supported YAML metadata
- HackMD has better version control with GitHub integrations
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