HedgeDoc is an open-source collaborative markdown writing platform

What is HedgeDoc?

HedgeDoc is a self-hosted, web-based collaborative markdown editor for teams and enterprise.  It is an ideal solution for students, researchers, and writers.

Formally it was called CodiMD, but changed its name in order to overcome a similar name conflict for another Markdown app.

Users can install HedgeDoc easily on their remote servers using Docker and Docker Compose.

Features

1. Free and open-source software
2. It comes with a full responsive user-friendly interface
3. HedgeDoc offers a seamless real-time experience
4. It has a useful presentation mode
5. It supports many type of Markdown diagrams and graphs
6. It also offers a built-in split viewer
7. Shows who's online
8. HedgeDoc comes with WYSIWYG editor
9. Review in real-time
10. One click publish document
11. Documentation statistics that include words, lines, characters, spaces and more
12. It offers a full support for the slide mode
13. Import documents from Gist, and clipboard
14. Download documents as Markdown, HTML, and Raw HTML.
15. HedgeDoc comes with extensive revision options
16. Supports photo attachments and uploading
17. It supports tables, comments, checklists and more
18. Built-in dark mode
19. Auto line detection
20. Supports third-party authentication

Install HedgeDoc

Docker and Docker Compose

Installing it using Docker and Docker Compose is the easiest way to get it up and running. All is required is getting your docker-compose.yml ready then run it.

version: '3'
services:
  database:
    image: postgres:13.4-alpine
    environment:
      - POSTGRES_USER=hedgedoc
      - POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password
      - POSTGRES_DB=hedgedoc
    volumes:
      - database:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    restart: always
  app:
    # Make sure to use the latest release from https://hedgedoc.org/latest-release
    image: quay.io/hedgedoc/hedgedoc:1.9.3
    environment:
      - CMD_DB_URL=postgres://hedgedoc:password@database:5432/hedgedoc
      - CMD_DOMAIN=localhost
      - CMD_URL_ADDPORT=true
    volumes:
      - uploads:/hedgedoc/public/uploads
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    restart: always
    depends_on:
      - database
volumes:
  database:
  uploads:

Manual installation

The project is built on top of Node.js and uses any popular SQL database like MySQL, SQLite, and PostgreSQL. For more instructions, head for the official documentation.

Platforms

Can be installed on Windows, Linux, or macOS.

License

HedgeDoc is an open-source project released under AGPL-3.0 License.

Resources

• https://hedgedoc.org/
• https://github.com/hedgedoc/hedgedoc