Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

Being writerly.

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It's not new by any means, but I finally got around to trying it.

One of the challenges of computers is moving documents from a home computer to a work computer to a flash drive to a friend's computer to finding a way to work on documents on a computer somewhere on the road.

I have to say, Writerly is turning out to be a lot of fun so far.

Yet another online product bought up by Google, Writerly lets you do your word processing through their web site instead of through software on your hard drive. This means that as long as you can get on a computer with an internet connection, you can work on your documents. You don't have to save documents to discs or portrable drives and move them to the computer you're working on. You don't have to worry about finding a Mac or a PC or finding the same software you've been using on the next computer. The talk has been that the next focus of the internet will be to have sits, such as Writerly, which do what regular software does. That is, have online methods of doing word processing and spreadsheets instead of using software off of your hard drive. Probably not exciting news for software developers, like Microsoft, but great news for people who want the convenience of portability and don't want the hassle and expense of constant software updates and other purchases.

Writerly lets you type, save, edit, download, and more. You can blog directly from Writerly. You can even invite other people to collaborate on specific documents.

I'm still experimenting with Writerly, but so far, I'm liking it. I'd encourage you to give it a try, at least, especially if you are a person who works on writing or other word processing from both home and work computers.