I understand the premise behind something like Zoho Writer. It allows people to collaborate on a document, not dependent on a particular type of word processing software or a particular computer, access anywhere, anytime. That the history of a document (edits) can also be tracked is beneficial.
I did get to have a quick play with the tool, but now it appears to be “freeze-happy” when I attempt to login at the sign-on page, so who knows? It reminded of a Word document template, with all the key shortcuts on a toolbar. I can choose the type of font I want, if I want to bold important text, create HTML links, cut and paste, anything I would expect to be able to do with Microsoft Word. I can export a document originally created in Word to Zoho Writer to work on it here. Two things that I can’t do with Word are adding emoticons to a document, and tags as a way to organise my documents on Zoho.
I’m not sure whether I would regularly use a tool like this in my work, because most of my colleagues use the same applications as I do, so there are no problems with compatibility, (although it might save track changes) people may find it a trial to go and the web and sign in to edit a document, when they could just as easily do it from a program on their desktop, and having just learnt about wikis, couldn’t a wiki be used to collaborate, create, edit, express ideas with others, just as well?
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Thanks for the nice post on Zoho Writer!
The biggest advantage of Zoho Writer over existing desktop tools is the far easier collaboration that's possible. You need not mail the documents around for your colleagues to edit them, just share them in Zoho Writer and they can view/edit online over a browser/internet connection for free.
And yes Wikis are useful as well when a lot of documents are to be collaborated upon. Try Zoho Wiki as well.
Arvind
http://zoho.com
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