Online Document Collaboration Tool – 37Signals’ Writeboard
37Signals has released new new online software called Writeboard. It is simple text editing tool with a twist of storing each of your each edit save into different versions – you can edit, roll back to any version you want, or compare changes between versions. It is sort of like version control system such as SVN, but it is way simpler, online & web based, and focus on one document only:
Writeboard makes editing easy and safe. Every time you save an edit a new version is created and linked in the sidebar. This allows you to write without fear of deleting something, overwriting something, or losing a better version of the document from last week.
Writeboard encourages you to explore ideas wherever they may lead. Don’t like what you wrote? Just click a previous version and you’re back to the way you had it before.
It can be treated as a quick scribble place for different people do edit document online. It is not feature rich but it does the job of collaborating and editing a text document.
Writeboard – Write, share, revise, compare – [37Signals]




Comments
Kyle says on October 4th, 2005 at 5:20 am
While Writeboard is cool for its simplicity, it’s really not all that different from a hosted wiki with only one page. If the idea of Writeboard appeals to you and seems like something that would be useful to you for multiple documents, look into a wiki as well (along with considering Writeboard).
Jaco says on October 4th, 2005 at 6:20 am
Which other tools do you know?.
I know there is a similar to this one but I can“t remember the name. Anyone?.
Also you can upload an html document (converted from Word or whatever) and comment it here:
http://www.quicktopic.com/docreview
and the freeware (and very small) soft
Synchronous Collaborative Text Document Editing Online: MoonEdit
Wikis are good but for many people wysiwyg is a must
pbwiki.com is an easy and free wiki tool/host
Christopher Michael says on October 6th, 2005 at 5:33 am
Not news, more for the archive – JotLive lets you even lock and edit _parts_ of documents – http://www.jotlive.com