If you’ve had to collaborate with a group of people on a document via email, you know how difficult and cumbersome this task can be. Edits tend to come in from a variety of people at once making the reconciliation process between different document versions complex and error prone. WriteWith is a webapp that offers a central location for your working team to review the latest drafts, make real-time edits, see past revisions, and save a local copy in a variety of formats. The interface is simple, sign-up takes under a minute, and there is no cost to use WriteWith.
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Practical Uses:
- Share your latest contract with legal, marketing, and sales at the same time
- Create a to-do list for your project team and ask each member to make real-time updates
- Solicit input on your resume from friends and family
- Save $100 on Microsoft Word by using an online word processor such as WriteWith
Insider Tips:
- When adding reviewers to your document, be sure to let them know to watch for an email from WriteWith – sometimes the invites are sent to the spam folders
- You can use the Print Doc button to print a physical copy or create a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro or similar PDF creation software
What we liked:
- Fast, lightweight application
- Includes spell check and auto-save
- Integrated chat log for posting messages to other people
- Provides alerts when other users are working on the same document
- Ability to assign tasks to other users
- Free service
What we didn’t like:
- Compatible with Internet Explorer and Firefox only
- Text formatting options are somewhat limited
- Encountered some issues with sending registration invites to other users
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Company Info:
- Launched in: April, 2007
- Privately Held
- Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA
- Founders: Martin Goldman, Eric Eldon, Phillip Kast, Jessica Wolfe
- Web site: http://www.writewith.com
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