[vanderZwan]

> [It is ironic indeed, that a text about text rendering, is presented in such an inaccessible and badly-typed environment. This is a Google Docs Preview page. I am still yet to find a solution that provides the same features (collaboration, commenting, live edits) and is presented better. Suggestions are appreciated.]

Have you tried Observable? Their online notebook has live team editing built in, and the option to comment on cells, as well as fork and merge notebooks with suggested edits. However, it uses markdown instead of a WYSIWYG editor (although I did create some tagged template wrappers for djot and markdeep as possible alternatives). On the plus side it's really easy to write interactive demos!

They're kind of pivoting their product at the moment though, so I'm not sure how easy it is to get into the notebook part these days.

[0] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/djot

[1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/wrapping-markdeep-into-...

[bbkane]

Tangent, but I just found Observable. How are they pivoting their product?

[vanderZwan]

Before they tried to build a business with their notebooks alone, but they recently released Observable Framework[0], which is "a static site generator for data apps, dashboards, reports, and more" that you can install and run offline via npm[1]. IIUC the business plan is to make money by hosting the generated sites on their website, and offering tight integration with their existing notebook tech to continue to let people edit those cooperatively.

I really hope they succeed because I'm a big fan of both Observable notebooks and the new Observable Framework (and their Observable Plot library is pretty good too. Really, they have tons of good stuff).

But basically, they now have two products, as mentioned in the "overview" section of their docs[2].

[0] https://observablehq.com/framework/

[1] https://github.com/observablehq/framework

[2] https://observablehq.com/documentation/learn/overview