Last updated on 24 June 2023
How to write and edit a text online? What free tool to use for remote real-time group writing? Collaborative writing lends itself to many uses in the field of education. Here are three online tools, three pads, for write a text to several to be used or advised without fear. All three are free and free.
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Framapad
To any lord, any honour, Framapad is arguably the best-known tool on this small list. Very simple to use, Framapad is an online collaborative text editor offered by the irreducible Defenders of the Free by Framasoft. No need to register. On the homepage. You create a one-click pad and start writing your text. You will then or at the same time invite the other authors to join you via a unique URL. Everyone will then be able to participate in writing in real time. Each author will be identified by a different color. Practical. Framapad also offers a chat system to exchange with the group. Once finished, all you have to do is export your text.
Link: Framapad
PublishWithMe
Here's another one. tool to write a text to several which deserves a small test to give you an idea. For occasional use in the context of collaborative writing it can provide great services. In addition to the virtual white sheet, PublishWithMe also offers an integrated chat system to facilitate exchanges between authors. Very convenient, a regular backup system allows you to go back to previous versions of your text. Finally, when saving and exporting your finalised document, you can choose between several formats: HTML, Word, TXT, PDF or .odt.
In the end, PublishWithMe suffers only from a small flaw. The interface of the service is in English.
Link: PublishWithMe
CryptPad
Back to a French interface and a more modern ergonomics with CryptPad. This collaborative writing tool makes it possible to edit texts together, but also to work on computer code or on a presentation. Practical. Associated with a kind of encrypted and confidential online hard drive, you will be able to store your documents there after registration. But you can also use the text editor freely without prior registration. Just remember to download your production, the site will automatically delete it from its servers after three months.
Link: CryptPad
English
Hello Fidel,
Thank you for all these nuggets that make up your articles.
However, a difficulty has been added in recent months, that related to the GDPR.
A small systematic line on the GDPR compatibility of the proposed online apps would be top! 😉
***To any lord, any honour, Framapad is arguably the best known tool on this small list.***
What a surprise to learn that this tool is more famous than Google Drive which allows simultaneous writing in text, a … spreadsheet
When several people are on the same document in Google's drive, everyone sees live what others are doing. At the top right, we see the list of people connected (having opened) the document at that time.
Yves,
You're right Google Drive works great. But it cannot be described as a solution of the free domain.
Thank you in any case for your return.