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Authorea - online collaborative editor for academic writing with LaTeX or Markdown
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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 19, 2014 at 10:37 PM
Looks good, though it seems to be geared towards the natural sciences. It couldn’t find the social science books I wanted to insert as references. It returned mostly journal articles.
Unfortunately the free account only gives you one private article to try.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 20, 2014 at 01:13 AM
Editorially seems to be a more generic option (not just for academic writing) with similar features to Authorea:
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 20, 2014 at 02:01 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
Editorially seems to be a more generic option (not just for academic
>writing) with similar features to Authorea:
>
>https://editorially.com/
Having taken it out for a quick test drive, Editorially turns out to be one of the nicest online writing apps with Markdown support I’ve tried so far. The editor does apply the styling but still shows the Markdown code (which is nice), it doesn’t force upon you a split screen type preview window, it saves every keystroke, and it allows you to publish directly to Wordpress or sync with Dropbox. It has a good set of export options. It looks very polished to me, even though it’s still in beta. I’m not so interested in the collaboration options, but it’s one of their central selling points. It’s a lot more “distraction-free” writing environment than Authorea.
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 14, 2014 at 10:11 AM
Editorially is closing. It’s a pity. It was the nicest collaborative online Markdown editor I’ve tried. I wish some of the big players could have recognised its potential and bought it. What other hope is there for small niche players like this one?
“Today brings some sad news: Editorially is closing its doors. The application will remain available until May 30, at which point the site will go offline. (...) Editorially has failed to attract enough users to be sustainable, and we cannot honestly say we have reason to expect that to change.”
Dr Andus wrote:
>Editorially seems to be a more generic option (not just for academic
>>writing) with similar features to Authorea:
>>
>>https://editorially.com/
>
>Editorially turns out to be
>one of the nicest online writing apps with Markdown support I’ve tried
>so far. The editor does apply the styling but still shows the Markdown
>code (which is nice), it doesn’t force upon you a split screen type
>preview window, it saves every keystroke, and it allows you to publish
>directly to Wordpress or sync with Dropbox. It has a good set of export
>options. It looks very polished to me, even though it’s still in beta.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 14, 2014 at 12:47 PM
I think there’s just too much competition in the online authoring space. Without a mobile app (that supports offline editing), such entrepreneurial efforts are almost guaranteed to fail. Which is why I watch Gingko with concern. Quip is a good example of the cross-platform approach - and it’s not bad. It’s not great, either; Gingko is much more exciting!
It’s difficult for software developers! If they’re ambitious, that means producing apps for Android, iOS and Windows Phone (possibly also for Amazon Fire and Blackberry), optimised for both mobile phones and tablets. And if they’re seriously ambitious, it also means producing desktop apps for Windows and Mac at the very least, and ideally also for Linux (which implies multiple distributions by definition). 6Wunderkinder (developers of Wunderlist) have been wrestling with this quandary for a while.