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Jake, thanks a ton for your comment. I absolutely love that Hacker News is a place where users and engineers can talk openly and comfortably. It's been a while
by quizbiz 15y ago
Jake, thanks a ton for your comment. I absolutely love that Hacker News is a place where users and engineers can talk openly and comfortably.
It's been a while but if I remember correctly, there was a slider on the top right with a play button. It allowed me to scroll through the history of the doc akin to Time Machine. That visual playful approach is much more engaging than a drop down list of versions. Titles and dates really tell you nothing about the nature of the document.
Watching an essay evolve with a click of a button was awesome and uniquely informative. A killer feature that should not be sacrificed. It was certainly a feature that could help Google Docs position itself above native applications.
- jmcqk6 15y agoI'm an instructor for a university course that is taught in a computer lab, so that every student has a computer in front of them. Each week, I setup two "community notes" pages using some etherpad clone and let them write their notes for the day in that fashion. I have to setup two, because apparently there is a hard limit of 12 users per etherpad, but it's completely changed my students' view of notes. There's no more clamoring each week for the powerpoint that I refuse to make. They're now using each other to build notes that are better than anything they could build individually. When we get this technology into everything, the world will be a much better place.