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

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]

  • http://kylem.xwell.org Kyle

    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).

  • http://community.lifehack.org/blog/69 Jaco

    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

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  • Christopher Michael

    Not news, more for the archive – JotLive lets you even lock and edit _parts_ of documents – http://www.jotlive.com