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[users] Noob-friendly solutions for co-writing a gemini site?

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Tue Apr 20 17:27:55 BST 2021

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Unicorn <unicorn at disroot.org> writes:

Hello,

my partner wants to write a site with me. She likes the idea of Gemini

and the simplicity of its syntax, but is not the kind of person to run

cli applications like vim and rsync all the time. Which is how I have

been doing it. She told me she would prefer to use something like the

Nextcloud inbuilt text editor, though that one uses Markdown

unfortunately and seems too complex for me to just modify it to work

with gemtext right now.

So I was wondering, did any of you have similar challenges? What

solution did you ultimately go with? There are a few pieces to this

puzzle, so I will just list them individually:

* Easy writing of the text itself with Linux or web-based GUI (syntax

highlighting is a big plus, fancy rendering of headers or lists etc

is not necessary because it's already so simple)

* The text should be structured in directories in the exact same way

that the site ultimately will be

* The whole structure of files should be accessible to both of us,

either with some server-based solution or with eg. Syncthing keeping

the state of our computers in sync

* The whole structure of files needs to be regularly uploaded to the

server that is hosting our site

I would be thankful for any suggestions! I believe finding a practical

solution for this type of user would be important for more people to

access gemini as writers. So even if you want to suggest a community

effort for modifying an existing tool or creating a new one, I am open

to working on it and hearing your ideas :)

Best,

Unicorn

I never did something like this (I usually just use git or rsync topublish) but maybe syncthing[0] is an option too. If you don't know it,it like dropbox, you can share directories across various devices, it'sdecentralized, free and available for (almost?) all operating systems.

It can sync the files between your and her laptop, and if you don't wantto insta-publish the changes to your server, you can turn off syncthingon your server and turn it on only when you're ready to publish. Forediting you can use whatever text-editor you like.

Nextcloud could be an option too, but it seems to require more effort.IIRC you can edit also plain text files with the built-in editor, butit won't do syntax highlighting and you have to find a solution for thepublishing part.

Cheers,

Omar Polo

[0]: https://syncthing.net/