[OSX-Users] OSX upgrade warning

[Tim Chown]

> On 21 Sep 2016, at 16:41, Vladimiro Sassone <vsassone at soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> On 21 Sep 2016, at 16:11, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Concurrent joint editing of documents isn’t really one,
> 
> well, whatever you’re trying to do but the simplest task, it would be nice to have concurrent editing model better “make your own version of the document by adding your initials to the filename, and attach it to an email or add it to dropbox”. GoogleDocs and iCloud allow editing, of decent quality, OneDrive too, but not nearly as good, don’t think dropbox allows that, does it?, just comments.

Well, with Google docs and Etherpad you don’t generally hold a local copy of the document., though you can export one. 

Etherpad is great for editing notes during a meeting, where plain text is all you need; the IETF use it for producing WG notes/minutes for example, and I use it for the UKNOF programme committee meetings and meeting arrangements.

Google docs is a little fancier.

DropBox is more about managing your own archive of files, photos, whatever, and accessing them on any device, easily.

Tim