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If it has real, proper, version control with named checkpoints then I'll check it out. I still struggle to believe that Google Docs doesn't have the ability to
by scrumper 13y ago
If it has real, proper, version control with named checkpoints then I'll check it out. I still struggle to believe that Google Docs doesn't have the ability to create a named version alongside its version-for-every-change tracking.
- toomuchtodo 13y agoSo lets bolt a fancy document editor on top of Github and call it a day.
- rposborne 13y agoHonestly... This could be a very useful product. We just rarely need "branching"
- zefi 13y agoWe're Kivo (YC S13) building Git for documents. www.kivo.com - would love to chat more.
- scrumper 13y agoThis is extremely interesting and directly solves a major pain point for me. I've registered and I am going to give this a try once your Mac beta is out. Curious why PPT first? I'd have thought a bigger issue was with Word docs. I guess that has its own track changes thing, but it's still not got anything approaching version control.
- gknoy 13y agoI imagine that one of their main target use cases is collaboratively editing slide decks, or something similar. I recall when our company had some major event last year, our exec team had over a hundred iterations of their slide deck. edit: Their blog [1] notes that the reason is to let them focus on executing one well-defined thing WELL. Seems like a good idea. If we’re going to achieve these goals, we need to be super focused. Which is why our first version is specific in its scope: Kivo 1.0 is an Office plugin which works with PowerPoint on Windows. Kivo guys: what a great presentation, and clear explanation of what you feel is lacking in the space. 1: http://kivo.com/blog/ http://kivo.com/blog/
- scrumper 13y agoI figured there was a narrow focus at this point: it makes perfect sense. I was just wondering why that particular focus. Having thought on it some more, it looks like a clever strategy: the Word case has a half-solution already, with Track Changes and numbered file versions. In Powerpoint, there's simply no such thing. I wish the Kivo team every success.
- zefi 13y agoThanks guys for your very kind words. Feel free to reach out to me on zefi[at]kivo.com with any questions or comments.
- gknoy 13y agoSomeone mentioned a project like this on HN several weeks ago. Someone other than me will get good karma for linking to it. (: More importantly, it seemed like something that the Github team is very interested in as well. In the past, such as when they introduced showing maps and other data on Github, they have expressed interest in making Github a more universally useful tool.
- scrumper 13y agoThat'll be a fancy MS Word-compatible editor with integrated diffing. The problem with using Git(hub) is that line delta change model - perfect for code - doesn't make much sense in the context of freeform English. I care about changes to words, sentences, and paragraphs. I need to see changes in-line, most of the time. Draft (draft.io) has the right model, but I need a native app with local storage and, again, MS Word compatibility.