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Creative writing is not an easy task, but the web gives us great opportunities to collaborate and get some help. For our own book, my friend and I set up a custom DokuWiki which does the trick quite nicely. But not everyone likes to tinker; some people simply want to get down to business and start telling their story while getting feedback from their writing buddies.
This is the purported target audience for ScribbleSquid. The site claims to be friendly to the average user and even "introduce non-techies to the power of version control". Excited, I went ahead and registered and then started fiddling with it and figuring things out.
Despite their claims, the site is complex. I had a hard time figuring things out even after looking at the docs and watching the videos. But that's okay -- not all sites have to be dead-simple. Yet imagine my amazement when after searching and searching, I came to realize the website is missing one key feature:
This is the purported target audience for ScribbleSquid. The site claims to be friendly to the average user and even "introduce non-techies to the power of version control". Excited, I went ahead and registered and then started fiddling with it and figuring things out.
Despite their claims, the site is complex. I had a hard time figuring things out even after looking at the docs and watching the videos. But that's okay -- not all sites have to be dead-simple. Yet imagine my amazement when after searching and searching, I came to realize the website is missing one key feature:
Continue reading ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission
ScribbleSquid tries to help new writers -- with one glaring omission originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:10:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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