Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
Synchronized editing: the future of collaborative writing
A growing suite of tools allows teams of researchers to work collectively to edit scientific documents.
Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs / Moment devlog
In part 1 of this series, we found that users generally view the most popular collaborative text editing algorithms (including the most popular library, Yjs) as silently corrupting their documents when the algorithms resolve direct editing conflicts. We argued that, while this is potentially ok for live collaborative editing (since presence cursors help users to avoid direct editing conflicts), this property makes them generally wholly inappropriate for the offline case, as users will have no ability to avoid such conflicts.
Universal Version Control
Building tools to help people explore alternatives, keep track of history, and collaborate better, across all kinds of media.
Collaborative Text Editing without CRDTs or OT - Matthew Weidner
Matthew Weidner | May 21st, 2025 Home | RSS Feed Keywords: text editing, server reconciliation, Articulated
FOSDEM 2026 - Teamtype: multiplayer mode for your text editor – towards a Collaborative Editing Protocol
Files on your hard drive are the ultimate local-first storage. But to allow real-time collaboration from within text editors, developers currently have to reinvent the wheel each time: Figure out how to hook into buffer changes correctly, implement displaying remote cursors, finding a way to get the required events in and out of the editor.
v2 Editor Manifesto
The manifesto for our brand new rich text editor with version control capabilities, v2. In this post, we describe the basic principles, design decisions and our vision for v2, alongside reflecting on the current state and potential future of knowledge production in society.
Collaborative Editor Demo App
01 · Universal version control
We believe that simple, powerful, universal version control tools could help all kinds of creators produce better work.
Docs — Turn your team's content into knowledge
Docs is the open-source document editor that turns your team's content into knowledge: real-time collaboration, structured knowledge, and full data ownership. Self-host it anywhere, or try a public instance in seconds.
Fine-grained provenance, Automerge updates, LIVE workshop
Some explorations of new editor interactions for writing science papers, and a trio of projects advancing the future of Automerge.
Augmented Text Tools. Minimalist writing, powerful tools
Augmented Text tools offer a new ecosystem for writing, reading and interacting with text. Author is a writing app for Mac which makes citations and concept mapping easier than ever before. Reader is a free minimalist PDF viewer with powerful interactions.
Your decentralised & privacy enhancing alternative to google docs
Decentralised Docs: peer-to-peer document editor that keeps your data secure with end-to-end encryption. Real-time collaboration, onchain.
Linus on Twitter / X
Notion serves millions of very dynamic, heavily modified interactive collaborative documents to users every day. At some point the line between documents and apps blur sufficiently.— Linus (@thesephist) August 15, 2025
