Post #751127
2023-03-09 21:53 UTC
Replies (11)
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@blaine@mastodon.social 2023-03-09 21:53
The project opened up so many questions, which I think is critical. The prose collaboration space – currently dominated by Google Docs and MS Word – should be a whole industry. I hope that Upwelling can serve as a first step towards many new tools and approaches to serve writers.
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@awaterma@ioc.exchange 2023-03-09 21:57
@blaine Can you also please post a video of the version control working? e.g., history?
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@rysiek@mstdn.social 2023-03-09 21:58
@blaine oooh, @smari look it's Weaving! :blobcatpeek:
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@coldclimate@hachyderm.io 2023-03-09 22:11
@blaine did your involvement in this stem from Poetica?
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@lcannell@hachyderm.io 2023-03-09 23:32
@blaine great stuff! I assume you used Upwelling to co-author this?
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@jcfischer@social.invisible.ch 2023-03-10 06:47
@blaine just yesterday two folks in my team were looking for this exact solution. They had to co-write a report and were deeply unhappy with the tools at their disposal
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@tomlowenthal@mastodon.social 2023-03-12 17:55
@blaine Gosh, this is such an exciting post. Good collaboration tools for writing have been a bugbear for me on so many occasions! And exploring CRDTs for half-offline work? 😍 I’m excited to read the whole thing.
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@trochee@dair-community.social 2023-03-12 18:20
@blaine this is really cool, and i think it even opens the door for _software_ people to think about their collaboration styles further, too. Not all the good ideas go in one direction here
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@joshua@pigeons.club 2023-03-12 18:24
@blaine this is fantastic work! it addresses problems i really wanted to think about while building privacy preserving / offline collaboration tools for journalists some years ago. exciting stuff, i’ll be really interested to see where it goes!
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@Ryanbigg@ruby.social 2023-03-12 19:47
@blaine this is absolutely incredible! I’ve thought about this sort of thing for a while but ended up going down the Git route, allowing reviewers to leave comments on “elements” within a particular Git revision (paragraphs, images, code blocks are all elements). I love the idea of your stack and drafts, and not using Git at all as the foundation of everything. Very much agree that it’s incredibly difficult to learn / teach.
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@Carwil@mastodon.online 2023-03-14 13:31
@blaine This project looks fascinating. I would add citations to the content types if this project is to be of use to academic writers. By which I mostly mean, plays well with Zotero. Zotero has a Markdown integration (as well as Word etc.), so this should be doable.