Yeah, as a supervisor for bachelor, master and PhD students there are some benefits; like I can go in and comment on their thesis report directly.
However, I feel it comes short is when there are several people working on a paper; at least I haven’t found a way to easily see my co-authors changes/diff. Hence, when I write papers with my students I prefer that we use GitHub directly. This makes it easy to split specific changes into commits and even use pull requests for larger edits. Of course, it requires some knowledge of git, but my students (should) have this knowledge being CS students :-)
I’m also not a fan of browser-based editors, but Overleaf’s editor has gotten a bit better since I first used it.
However, I feel it comes short is when there are several people working on a paper; at least I haven’t found a way to easily see my co-authors changes/diff. Hence, when I write papers with my students I prefer that we use GitHub directly. This makes it easy to split specific changes into commits and even use pull requests for larger edits. Of course, it requires some knowledge of git, but my students (should) have this knowledge being CS students :-)
I’m also not a fan of browser-based editors, but Overleaf’s editor has gotten a bit better since I first used it.