{"id":8403,"date":"2019-01-21T00:52:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T00:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2019-03-09T04:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T04:20:30","slug":"get-started-with-cryptpad-an-open-source-collaborative-document-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/get-started-with-cryptpad-an-open-source-collaborative-document-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Get started with CryptPad, an open source collaborative document editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"os-article__top\">\n<div class=\"os-article__top-inner\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-article-subhead\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-article-subhead field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<h2>Securely share your notes, documents, kanban boards, and more with CryptPad, the fifth in our series on open source tools that will make you more productive in 2019.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-os-content-article-byline\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"os-article__image\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-lead-image\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-lead-image field-type-image field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full-size\" title=\"web development and design, desktop and browser\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/image-full-size\/public\/lead-images\/web_browser_desktop_devlopment_design_system_computer.jpg?itok=pfqRrJgh\" alt=\"web development and design, desktop and browser\" width=\"520\" height=\"292\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"os-article__middle\">\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-body\">\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<h2 id=\"cryptpad\">CryptPad<\/h2>\n<p>We already talked about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/1\/productivity-tool-joplin\">Joplin<\/a>, which is good for keeping your own notes but\u2014as you may have noticed\u2014doesn&#8217;t have any sharing or collaboration features.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptpad.fr\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CryptPad<\/a>\u00a0is a secure, shareable note-taking app and document editor that allows for secure, collaborative editing. Unlike Joplin, it is a NodeJS app, which means you can run it on your desktop or a server elsewhere and access it with any modern web browser. Out of the box, it supports rich text, Markdown, polls, whiteboards, kanban, and presentations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default media-wysiwyg-align-center\">\n<div id=\"file-420126\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png\">\n<div class=\"content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default\" title=\"Main CryptPad screen\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/cryptpad-1.png\" alt=\"Main CryptPad screen\" width=\"650\" height=\"298\" data-delta=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The different document types are robust and fully featured. The rich text editor covers all the bases you&#8217;d expect from a good editor and allows you to export files to HTML. The Markdown editor is on par with Joplin, and the kanban board, though not as full-featured as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/19\/1\/productivity-tool-wekan\">Wekan<\/a>, is really well done. The rest of the supported document types and editors are also very polished and have the features you&#8217;d expect\u00a0from similar apps, although polls feel\u00a0a little clunky.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default media-wysiwyg-align-center\">\n<div id=\"file-420131\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png\">\n<div class=\"content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default\" title=\"CryptPad's rich text editor\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/cryptpad-2.png\" alt=\"CryptPad's rich text editor\" width=\"650\" height=\"323\" data-delta=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>CryptPad&#8217;s real power, though, comes in its sharing and collaboration features. Sharing a document is as simple as getting the sharable URL from the &#8220;share&#8221; option, and CryptPad supports embedding documents in iFrame tags on other websites. Documents can be shared in Edit or View mode with a password and with links that expire. The built-in chat allows editors to talk to each other (note that people with View\u00a0access can also see the chat but\u00a0can&#8217;t comment).<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default media-wysiwyg-align-center\">\n<div id=\"file-420136\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png\">\n<div class=\"content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default\" title=\"Shared kanban board with chat\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/sites\/default\/files\/pictures\/cryptpad-3.png\" alt=\"Shared kanban board with chat\" width=\"650\" height=\"298\" data-delta=\"3\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>All files are stored encrypted with the user&#8217;s password. Server administrators can&#8217;t read the documents, which also means if you forget or lose your password, the files are unrecoverable. So make sure you keep the password in a secure place, like a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/article\/18\/4\/3-password-managers-linux-command-line\">password vault<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default media-wysiwyg-align-center\">\n<div id=\"file-420141\" class=\"file file-image file-image-png\">\n<div class=\"content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-default\" title=\"Shared whiteboard in CryptPad\" src=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/sites\/default\/files\/uploads\/cryptpad-4.png\" alt=\"Shared whiteboard in CryptPad\" width=\"600\" height=\"619\" data-delta=\"4\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When it&#8217;s\u00a0run locally, CryptPad is a robust app for creating and editing documents. When run on a server, it becomes an excellent collaboration platform for multi-user document creation and editing. Installation took less than five minutes on my laptop, and it just worked out of the box. The developers also include instructions for running CryptPad in Docker, and there is a community-maintained Ansible role for ease of deployment. CryptPad does not support any third-party authentication methods, so users must create their own accounts. CryptPad also has a community-supported hosted version if you don&#8217;t want to run your own server.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtoday.com\/it_management\/get-started-with-cryptpad-an-open-source-collaborative-document-editor-190117050053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Securely share your notes, documents, kanban boards, and more with CryptPad, the fifth in our series on open source tools that will make you more productive in 2019. CryptPad We already talked about\u00a0Joplin, which is good for keeping your own notes but\u2014as you may have noticed\u2014doesn&#8217;t have any sharing or collaboration features. CryptPad\u00a0is a secure, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2019\/01\/21\/get-started-with-cryptpad-an-open-source-collaborative-document-editor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Get started with CryptPad, an open source collaborative document editor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10914,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/10914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}