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Thanks! Well so the inspiration for this came from just trying to get my wife to proof read my blog posts. Even a 600 word post ends up becoming a pain. I'd end up sending her a google doc, or email or whatever. She would end up copying and pasting it into a word doc and then resending to me so I could review her changes and only manually try to merge in the things I wanted.

I've found that even a couple friends can get a whole lot of use from Draft to edit something simple. I hear you though, and am definitely paying attention to the use cases. We'll see how it shakes out.

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I've been running into this problem while working through marketing docs/accelerator apps/etc. with a new startup. There's still a huge hole in collaborative document editing. Tools are either too simple to do this well (thinking of hackpad) or too complicated for quick uses (editing mode in word/comments in google docs).

An elegant solution for this kind of back-and-forth editing dialog on short-form copy would be huge. Surprised it doesn't exist already. And the concept of one-click "commits" is a powerful one for versioning -- makes it much easier to find things than google's atomic "save everything" version control.

Nice work. Look forward to giving this a try.

Why didn't she highlight the change she wanted to make in google docs and make a comment on it? That would have been easier for both of you, I think.

(Not the OP) Because that takes too much effort. For big pieces of general criticism maybe, but for rearranging a sentence or fixing a typo adding comments in the margins has too much overhead.

as a potential user, I was wondering if you have anything planned for offline use. Many times writers / blog drafters will take themselves offline to jam out some drafts.

If there's a local store that can keep version control distributed it would be great.