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Not 100% sure I understand, but, if you opt into sharing a doc, we do spin up a collaboration server on your behalf, and editors do not have to set anything up to use it. The bulk of the work we've had to do is to make this seamless and good.

For the other points: yes, we aspire to do all of those things. :)

Are those other points, something you can do in Markdown? DB in markdown?

Our approach, which is behind a feature flag right now, is to allow users to attach "assets" to jj change IDs (these are sort of like stable git commit SHAs). This is how we will power inline comments, and it's how we'll power Notion-style SQLite-based databases. We already have, checked in, an implementation of IVM built on top of SQLite, specifically for this purpose. I don't see how we could be a Notion competitor without them.

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