Another perfect reporters tool
Last week I wrote about my new tablet pc. I just had another great day on the road with it, and this time I tested a new type editor Google presented a couple of days ago: Google Docs. It is an easy to use web based word editor with all the functions you need to write and format an article. Features I like are:
- Auto save
- Wordcount (never seen that in web based editors before)
- HTML editor
- Post to blog (works on WordPress and a range of other systems)
- Save and open as word, pdf, Open Office, HTML etc.
- Easy sharing, up- download of documents.
- Starts faster than both Word XP and latest Open Office aps
- Hotkeys - like ctrl+s for bold, ctrl+s for save. Overrides browser defined hotkeys (in firefox)
Click to view a screenshot of google docs
To this comes a more advanced revisions feature, that lets you share the document with reviewers. Finaly you can publish the document by direct print, email or to an unique URL created by the editor. See my example here: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgt9dxxw_3f43fnx. Changes in document can be subscribed to via RSS :-)
Dispite the simple userinterface I can´t find anything missing exept from maybe danish spell checking (the English sucks byt the way, it won’t reconize the words: Google, pdf and blog) and a system for mass handling of docs. Would be cool if I could upload and publish 50 docs at the same time. Google Docs has been integrated in the Google Spreadsheet, released in 2005, so you handle both types of documents from the same interface and with the same tools.
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