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Overleaf

Posted Jun 9, 2025 20:58 UTC (Mon) by Klaasjan (subscriber, #4951)
In reply to: Overleaf by leephillips
Parent article: The importance of free software to science

I’m sorry to hear Overleaf left such a bad impression. I should say I do find it useful, though.
And I do agree having local backups is important and that working locally in one’s preferred editor can be more pleasant.
Perhaps the Wikipedia entry is overly positive about the free nature of the software?


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Overleaf

Posted Jun 10, 2025 1:33 UTC (Tue) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

My bad, they do seem to have an open source version that you can run locally. I don't know how popular that is.

I don't think it is as bad as Lee says. Both overleaf and GitHub have their places. But not really relevant to this article -- overleaf is widely used by scientists, as is MacOS, but as a proprietary tool for creating open science.


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