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Ah, writely, I love thee
Aug. 23rd, 2006 01:36 pmI've spent the last half-hour writing scholarship award letters using Writely the newly revised writing/collaboration program that Google's been fine-tuning.
Writing is nice on it, the collaboration option is cool, but what I was most thrilled by was the ability to save as a PDF with two clicks - and it's so speedy compared to how slowly MS Word generates a PDF with the converter I've downloaded. YMMV, but it's definitely, IMHO, worth a try.
I can also see merits for it in RPGs. Even though I don't RP these days, even though this works differently from chatrooms, blogging or IMing, there is, I think, merit for it as something to try.
I also wonder if this might not also be a way for people to write and distribute fics to controlled audiences, without worrying about creating additional filters of one's flist. If you have someone's email, you can invite them to read your work - and you can easily include images, too. The issue would be the inability to review on the page or on a linked-to page - you'd have to manually create a review thread with something else, or as a separate writerly-document-that-the-public-can-edit. But it might be something to consider for things that you don't want to have in the public sphere, or that y ou want separate from your blog or LJ.
Writing is nice on it, the collaboration option is cool, but what I was most thrilled by was the ability to save as a PDF with two clicks - and it's so speedy compared to how slowly MS Word generates a PDF with the converter I've downloaded. YMMV, but it's definitely, IMHO, worth a try.
I can also see merits for it in RPGs. Even though I don't RP these days, even though this works differently from chatrooms, blogging or IMing, there is, I think, merit for it as something to try.
I also wonder if this might not also be a way for people to write and distribute fics to controlled audiences, without worrying about creating additional filters of one's flist. If you have someone's email, you can invite them to read your work - and you can easily include images, too. The issue would be the inability to review on the page or on a linked-to page - you'd have to manually create a review thread with something else, or as a separate writerly-document-that-the-public-can-edit. But it might be something to consider for things that you don't want to have in the public sphere, or that y ou want separate from your blog or LJ.
