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1. blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 06:58:36 JST blaine

   It was an immense privilege to work with the very fine folks at Ink & Switch on Upwelling, an exploration of writer-focused collaboration tools: https://www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/

   Collaboration tools for software developers (git, etc) have been deeply explored and are rich in diversity and features. Writers' tools: not so much. With Upwelling, we leaned into recent advances in CRDTs to experiment with possible UX patterns for collaboration on prose.

   • Adrian Cochrane repeated this.
   • blaine (blaine@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Mar-2023 06:58:39 JST blaine

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     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.