Quick pop quiz:
Is there an easy to use web-based solution for collaborative document editing?
Example: Author puts up document. Team members download, check, look, make suggestions and re-upload. Author can then merge suggestions or edit to an updated document based on the content of what the team sent back?
A bit like Github for writing stuff, but not code.
Google documents.
Doesn't really help if I say I fucking hate google docs, does it?
Quote from: BarefootGaijin;720459Doesn't really help if I say I fucking hate google docs, does it?
Then just use Github? Or perhaps a wiki? LordVreeg could perhaps say a few words how PBworks works out for him.
I've just discovered Scrivener (http://www.literatureandlatte.com/). It is a thing of beauty.
Not only is is good for writing, but organising campaigns! Lordy.
Sharepoint works well, or if everyone involved has it, you can have others make all their edits and then update a central document with Microsoft Office (2010 or later) and reissue the updated document.
edit: wow, scrivener looks pretty neat though.
edit2: Oh look, the Linux version is in free beta. /download
Quote from: Panzerkraken;721193Sharepoint works well, or if everyone involved has it, you can have others make all their edits and then update a central document with Microsoft Office (2010 or later) and reissue the updated document.
edit: wow, scrivener looks pretty neat though.
edit2: Oh look, the Linux version is in free beta. /download
Apparently the Linux beta isn't as "feature-rich" as the other versions, BUT the windows version apparently plays well with Wine.
I went through a lot of the tutorial for it today. So many times I just stopped and went "THAT IS SO HANDY!" and imagined using it for RPG purposes as well as writing.
Quote from: BarefootGaijin;721201Apparently the Linux beta isn't as "feature-rich" as the other versions, BUT the windows version apparently plays well with Wine.
I went through a lot of the tutorial for it today. So many times I just stopped and went "THAT IS SO HANDY!" and imagined using it for RPG purposes as well as writing.
Last time I tried the Linux version it was the same as the Windows version. Both were Scrivener 1.0 "plus features" whereas the Mac version is 2.0.
I have tried to love Scrivener and I don't. I prefer seeing my outline seperate from my writing content. It's not so good for tracking document versions, either. But my wife likes it for her thesis; it is good for gathering non-fiction projects.