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I'd really like to see a prominently linked privacy policy. Not that I'm particularly concerned with you stealing my work-in-progress, but just as an easy-to-see assurance that such things won't happen.

A really sweet potential feature request: dropbox integration. Then I could work on my dissertation from anywhere, and always have a few extra backups.

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Good point, security is vital to this (hence everything is https). I will be looking into this.

I actually ended up writing my thesis using Eclipse with two plugins, one to support latex and one to support git, and that worked surprisingly well.

Git is the best if you are working on LaTeX by yourself, I wrote my dissertation last summer using it extensively. However writing LaTeX is different from code for many reasons, for one if you write a new class in e.g. c# all other classes do not care about the implementation, just what can the put in and what do they get out. With LaTeX that doesn't work, you duplicate yourself and get the narrative in the wrong order, they are very different paradigms. I am planning on writing a blog post on this soon.

yeah I just use vim/git for everything.

I did write a makefile to do the monotonous stuff for me (create pdf, generate figures with graphviz, fetch bibtex from zotero, etc). one of those instances of procrastination instead of writing which i can at least justify.

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