Newest Distraction

This post i'm going to type my take on an online word processing program. The program is called Writely and can be found at Generic Link! . Now with what little i use word processors, a lot of the extras in most word processor software just gets in the way. i do some writing but it mostly consists of ... File Open New Document ... start typing. i have figured out Boarders and Headings, Line Space, Tables and such in the past but i use them so rarely that each time is like my 2nd. Basicly other then the spell check button i don't do much else. So, you ask, what makes me think im qualified to give my opinion on a word processor program? well im not, but ill give it anyway in case any of you are like me and just want to write without hassles. You may also wonder "Why on line? why not just use a normal program on your computer?" Cause its new and keen and different and...im a nerd who likes to try new things. Then i use my time figuring out how its useful later.

How this is useful to me:

1. Its lets you upload a document from your present processor program and keep it up on line so you can access it from work or a friends.
2. You can email or post to a blog right from the program. (and yes i wrote this post using it)
3. You can set up to share the creation and editing of a document so my plan to write a book with two other friends can happen this way.

You can save your documents from Writely to your desk top and convert it to some standard file types like Word, OpenOffice, RTF and HTML. also looks like you can get a PDF format but it might be with a pay version of Writely. Insert pictures, Tables and Links. You can even set Tags for your documents (now i don't know what the program does with those tags and after i post this it might be clear. but even if it doesn't do anything, its smart to add a button for Tags cause between putting the word Tag and Web2.0 on your product you're sure to have every techy trying to get your product)

Other ways it's useful, just not to me:

1. You can set up to share Writely with group so you can do things like a sign up list for your club of choice or meeting notes for the fantasy football draft.
   

2. And i'm sure an endless amount of other things i'd best leave to your imaginations and expertnesses.

my over all take on this is good. i haven't had any odd glitches and its been easy to set up and use. The spell check works well and as i have said that's very important for me. i'll most likely add a 2nd post after this is up to say how the post to Blog function worked. i'm guessing if it goes smooth i'll be writing a lot more posts this way. it really looks like it's more then your average home user would need, And maybe enough for the office. So if you're a more demanding word processor user i would love to hear your take on this. Laters all, g