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HackMD is an excellent tool to write down and share your notes or posts in markdown. I have written and shared some HackMD note and posts here.

Create your HackMD notes (.md file)

Create new HackMD notes from the chrome extension

Create a new HackMD note from the chrome extension by clicking the HackMD chrome extension and the “New note” button.

Create new HackMD note from chrome extension

Create new HackMD notes from the website

Hackmd Overview page

There are 3 ways to create a new note from the website.

  1. Empty a new note by clicking the “New note” button.
  2. A new note from a template.
  3. Import a file from Github.

create new note options

Create new HackMD notes from a template

By clicking “New note from template”, the following window will select an existing template or create a new template.

Create a new HackMD note from the template

Import a file from Github to edit in HackMD

By clicking “import file from Github,” it will show the following window to select the Github repository, branch, and file that you want to import; if your Github account is not linked, then another window would pop up asking to connect with Github account.

Import Github file to HackMD to edit
Connect Github to HackMD to import a file directly
Window asking permission to install and Authorize HackMD Hub to Github account

And then you can Pull from Github or Push to Github easily.

Pull from Github or Push to Githubon HackMD

Publish your HackMD notes

Publish your HackMD note by clicking the share icon on the top right corner of your screen, selecting the view mode, writing the link name (Optional), setting the note permission to read, comment, and edit. And finally, click the Publish button.

Window to publish hackmd note
Select view mode to publish note

Share your HackMD notes live

To share the live note (mostly the scrolling on a long note) controlled by 1 viewer, click the “n ONLINE” button on the top right corner of your screen and select the host you want to give controls to.

share live note; online

HackMD note creator’s screen when the host is selected.

Note creator's screen when host is selected

HackMD Guest’s screen when the host is selected.

Non-hosts have the option to follow or unfollow the host’s live note.

hackmd note viewer's screen when host is selected

Example posts

Check out 1 of the blog posts I wrote in HackMD style and this blog style to compare the visuals.

HackMD post on UE4 tutorial


HackMD UE4

Blog post on UE4 tutorial


Blog UE4

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