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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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tokio
A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...
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Outline
The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.
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gutenberg
A fast static site generator in a single binary with everything built-in. https://www.getzola.org
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KeenWrite
Discontinued Free, open-source, cross-platform desktop Markdown text editor with live preview, string interpolation, and math.
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comprehensive-rust
This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach Rust.
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mdBook discussion
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Why I Built RDX: Bringing Modern "Docs-as-Code" to the Rust Ecosystem
You usually end up using mdBook, which is great but visually basic. If you want a modern, interactive documentation site that rivals Stripe or Vercel, you are forced to leave Rust and go back to Python (MkDocs) or the Node.js ecosystem (Docusaurus, Mintlify, Nextra).
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Plugins case study: mdBook preprocessors
Biggest problem of mdBook is the lack of the good PDF and ePub export[1]. This is why Quarto[2] (based on pandoc) is a better choice if you need both online and offline rendered documentation/text. And Typst (or LaTeX for more conservative folks) for the offline documentation/articles/books.
[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/issues/815
[2] https://quarto.org/
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Linux Kernel Explorer
I really like this reactive guide style interface, which maybe could be quite a good project idea like mdBook[1] but also you to insert quizzes/examples alongside static notes
[1]: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook
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Markdown Is Holding You Back
I'd rather use Markdown for writing and even user submitted content whenever possible instead of gag HTML or some other overcomplicated markup language. Sure, there's various different flavors of Markdown, but on average it's better than overcomplicated attribute ridden XML or even XSS prone HTML (where nobody even knows what section is and everything ends up being a div).
Just give me a good enough baseline, that's it. Markdown is close enough to that for now. I don't need that much semantic meaning in the text. Something like mdbook (https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook) is more than enough for my needs, compared to shipping docs in once again, gag DOCX files and PDFs.
Good that there are solutions for more advanced use cases, though, but be careful with that complexity where you don't need it.
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Customizing mdBook for Branding, Analytics, and CTAs (with a Live Example 🚀)
mdBook is fantastic for writing docs and handbooks in Markdown. Out of the box, it’s clean and functional—but also a bit… generic.
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Do you need to be a programmer to contribute to open source projects?
A common misconception is that only programmers can contribute to open source project. Being a programmer of course make it possible for you to make changes to the source code of the application, but there are tons of other things that need to be done in a project. Especially if it is a large, end-user facing project such as Firefox, VLC, Moodle, or mdbook.
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Publishing in Arabic, Hebrew, or Persian?
I personally use mdbook (and another home-made system) to build my own sites/books. here you can see examples of public mdbooks in various languages. You can also see them grouped by language.
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Hacking with mdBook
mdBook is a Rust-based tool to create Web-based books from vanilla Markdown files. Although it is quite minimalistic, you will bump into it quite often in the wild. Most notably, the Rust Book uses it. I see it quite often in the Nix ecosystem, too.
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Why I am Migrating From Zola Back to Hugo
I have a local site I use as a knowledge base, journal and scratchpad. I recently migrated it from mdBook to Hugo, using the Hextra theme. The result was so good that I started questioning my use of Zola as my primary static site generator.
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The primary programming language of mdBook is Rust.
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