Comments on: Collaborative Editing

By: Shirley

Shirley — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:36:48 +0000

Subethaedit was great and Etherpad has the same feel. Google Docs is comparatively clumsy, though I agree about the advantages in organisation, especially as I have about 200 current Google docs.

I like linoit.com for a different type of collaboration – more visual, probably good for planning.

And my favourite for (collaborative) concept mapping is CMAP tools – am I going off-topic?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:21:23 +0000

Yes, SubEthaEdit plain text but with differnt colours to indicate who contributed.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:18:23 +0000

If I remember rightly, wasn’t SubEthaEdit just plain text?

I think web2.0 tools are now getting close to being as good Desktop applications. https://squadedit.com/ is almost as good as I remember SubEthaEdit.

By: tom

tom — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:13:58 +0000

I just found this collection on Delicious too collaborative writing which has thrown up some interesting tools.

By: Stephen Powell

Stephen Powell — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:44:45 +0000

Hi Tom. The big advantage with GoogleDocs is the straight forward document management functionality, folders, sharing and permissions…

I also remember back around 2005 having a lot of fun with SubEthaedit – a peer to peer solution that was very quick and responsive, showed easily who had contributed what, but was far less flexible document management.

SubEthaedit meets Google docs would be interesting….