New Themes & Reading Experience

Personalize your reading experience on HackMD by effortlessly switching between Light and Dark mode. Simply toggle the setting and we’ll remember your preference the next time you sign in, so you can jump right back into distraction-free reading.

We’re thrilled to introduce two brand new color themes for the editor: NeoLight and NeoDark. You can access them from the Brush icon at the bottom of the editor.

In Both mode, a click of the brush icon lets you preview exactly how your notes will appear to readers and collaborate with confidence. Give it a try and create notes that look as great as they read!

Learn more →

More Flexible Comment Panel

It can be annoying when trying to cross-reference the comments and rendered notes in Both mode, and even worse when the screen size is limited. Now you can pin and unpin the right panel and resize it to your liking.

Thanks to Robert Chen for helping us improve this experience.

Improvements and Fixes

• Fix: Resolve incorrect last edit time display on view page.
• Fix: Reconnection issues whenever user is active on page.

PDF Export is in limited trial

We have improved the PDF export. All Markdown elements, diagrams, of course, are rendered correctly and perfectly on paper.

This feature is currently available on a limited trial basis. After the trial period expires, only users who have subscribed to the paid Prime plan will be able to access and use this feature.

Improvements and Fixes

• Users who have been blocked by reCAPTCHA can now receive a one-time password (OTP) via email. Entering the correct OTP will allow them to log in even after they are initially blocked. If you haven’t already done so, Set up an email and password in case you get locked out by the reCAPTCHA.
• Many improvements to offline detection and handling when coming back online.
• Fix: Avoid triggering keyboard shortcut when editing comment.
• Fix: Line numbers in pseudocode block were not rendered correctly. Thanks to @patrickogrady for reporting this.

Offline Access

Keep writing even if your connection goes down. Your work is saved in the browser and automagically synchronized when you get back online. If other people have made changes that cause conflicts, you can review them and decide whether to keep or discard them. Work in any weather with HackMD.

Learn more about offline access→

Thanks to Lion, Jose, WildfootW, Zoe and Rachel for their help with usability testing.

Improvements and Fixes

• Code block now supports Pseudocode. Kudos to @patrickogrady for bringing this up.
• Supports GitHub Alert.
• Show possible causes when images are not available.
• Fix: An issue with showing suggested edits on published pages with a permalink.
• Fix: Suggest edit notifications to include the title of the note.

Suggest Edit

If you spot a typo while reading a note, want to suggest a more appropriate phrase, or want to bring a different perspective to rearrange a paragraph, you can now leave a suggested edit.

Many users have been using Resolve and Hide comments to address these use cases. While they have been added back, we strongly recommend using Suggest Edit for proofreading, reviewing, and any edits to a draft.

Learn more about Suggest Edit →

Thanks to @到處青苔 mossew, Eli Lin, and Michael Katz for their help with usability testing.

Hide and Resolve Comments

Hide a comment if it is spam, off-topic, abusive, or has been resolved. This will minimize the comment and mark it with the selected reason, if there is one. You can always unhide hidden comments and revert resolved comments, so feel free to tidy up the comments panel.

Learn more about Hide and Resolve comments →

Thanks to The Lido Team for their help with usability testing.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Dealing with Comments

We’ve added these keyboard shortcuts for dealing with comments:

Improvements and Fixes

• When people Like your note, you receive a notification. Try to Like them back :)
• Press Cmd(Mac)/Ctrl(Windows) + s to use the value of the title key in the YAML frontmatter as the title of the note. If there is no such key in the YAML frontmatter, HackMD will use the first H1 as title.
• Now you can pin as many comments as you like.
• Fix: a bug where the footnote backlink did not work with multiple references. Kudos to 竹子熊.