Wednesday, August 26, 2015

soft question - Online physics collaboration tools


I.e. online discussion with your friends. A forum is probably too overkill in this case.


Yet so far nothing can beat direct communication. Important feature: the ability to archive discussions. We don't want to retell our story to people who just missed the "conference" (let the newcomers dig through the archives by themselves).



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I should mention the wonderful userscripts written by Valery Alexeev which utilize mathjax and allow you to render latex on any webpage, even if it does not support such rendering internally. Currently supported webpages include arXiv and gmail, though it should be easy to add your own to the list.


Used in combination with mathim.com and Tiddlywiki we have a powerful platform for online tex-enabled collaborations.


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