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by dash2 1857 days ago
This looks really interesting. I'm always happy to see new collaboration tools. Also, anything that moves us away from TeX is a win.

I think Word export will be a big deal in many scientific fields.

I've certainly found it hard to spread git to people who don't really need it's quite "heavy" workflow. Yet, Dropbox results in lots of files named "foo-Daves-version" or "paper-Jane-edit-21011201".

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I have also seen a lot of that sort of file-naming-version-control still in use. Git is really far out of reach for most people, and IMO not always the most appropriate for writing workflows where the version control sort of lives at the paragraph/figure/equation level.

Word export (and hopefully good import as well) is certainly on our roadmap. :)