Collabwriting

Save, annotate, and collaborate on PDFs and web pages with your team using one browser extension

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Keeping your research scattered across multiple tabs isn’t any more convenient than digging through an actual pile of papers. (“You see a mess, I see...hours of my workday.”)

Between open tabs, busy Google Docs, and random emails, you’re spending more time organizing your research than actually getting it done.

You need a browser extension that lets you store and annotate web pages and PDFs, so you can collaborate with your team in real time.

Check out Collabwriting.

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Highlight and leave notes on web pages or PDFs, and save them to a virtual workspace
Share your research with collaborators and set permissions to control who can edit, comment, or view documents

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Overview

Collabwriting is a browser extension that helps you collect research online, share notes, and collaborate with your team in real time.

Collabwriting helps you collect info from direct sources without jumping to other programs and interrupting your research flow.

You’ll be able to collaborate on any web page or PDF—and it’s just as easy as working together in Google Docs.

That’s because this browser extension lets you highlight and leave notes on digital content for your team to review.

Besides plain text, you can also add links and screenshots to your comments to visualize your ideas.

Note Taking

Leave notes on web pages and PDFs using Collabwriting’s browser extension.

Collabwriting lets you save highlighted excerpts in a virtual workspace, where you can keep them organized by topics.

Whenever you’re ready to hand everything over to your team, you can share your research via link or by adding a specific user to the project.

Plus, you’ll be able to set different access permissions to control which collaborators can edit, comment, or view your documents.

Collaboration

Easily collaborate on web pages and share your research with others.

Collabwriting lets you export your highlights and notes, so you can compile them for the projects you’re working on.

You’ll be able to export your research as a PDF that’s ready to print or as editable text in Google Docs, Notion, Craft, and Word.

Best of all, this platform will keep links to highlighted sources intact, along with any comments left by collaborators.

Notes export

Export your notes to Google Docs, Notion, Craft, and Word.

With everything organized on a unified platform, you’ll always be able to find your research in context whenever you need it.

Even if the original source changes, Collabwriting will save your original highlights while letting you track changes made by your collaborators in the app’s activity tab.

And you can even cluster topics and search through the app to make sure your information is well-structured and ready to go.

Collaborative features

It’s a cinch to access previous highlights on the original source document.

Finally, there’s a simple way to wrangle all the information you need from anywhere on the web (without overheating your laptop).

Thanks to Collabwriting, you can collect and annotate web pages and PDFs to share your research directly with your team.

Simplify your research process.

Get lifetime access to Collabwriting today!

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Posted May 17, 2023

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Q: I need help.

I purchased this product twice in error. The first time in July 2023. Then again in Sept 2023. I want to request a refund on the second purchase. Will there be a problem that will affect my July purchase?

bigsby1PLUSOct 7, 2023
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Sandra_Collabwriting

May 15, 2024

A: Hi there,

I don't belive that it'll have any affect, but I'll reach out to the AppSumo team to confirm.

I'll get back to you as soon as I get input form them, but, in the meantime, you can also send us an email to support@collabwriting.com so we can have a more direct way of reaching out to you.

I'm sure we can get this sorted 😄

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Q: Is this Coming back or is there an alternative way to still buy LTD ?

UXnerdPLUSOct 10, 2023
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Sandra_Collabwriting

May 15, 2024

A: Hi UXnerd,

We don't really have plans for coming back as of now, but we're yet to see what products will be chosen for AppSumo's Black Friday promo. 😄

There isn't an active LTD for Collabwriting right now, but we have the Personal PRO as a monthly/yearly subscription. There is also a free version available and you'll get a 2 two-week trial period for PRO to test it out 😄

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Q: Do you have any plans to integrate with Activepieces, Make, or Albato?

I upgraded to Tier two love what you have created.

pintofoptimismPLUSSep 21, 2023
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Ivan_Collabwriting

Ivan_Collabwriting

May 15, 2024

A: Awesome! I've just looked into them all and Activepieces for now looks very promising.

I've written them down on our "Zapier Integration" feature request:
https://collabwriting.sleekplan.app/feedback/86219/

We'll look more into it. I assume that when we figure out everything around integrating with Zapier we'll be able to develop an alternative pretty fast 😄

What I like about Activepieces is that it's open source so it can be easily maintainable by us in the future. Thanks for sharing, and we'll keep you posted 😄

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Q: Tried to search for this but couldn’t find it: does this tool synchronize data with OneDrive, Sharepoint, Google Drive, and/or Evernote?

Thank you!

mpowerhacksPLUSSep 20, 2023
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Ivan_Collabwriting

Ivan_Collabwriting

May 15, 2024

A: Hi there 👋

Super glad to hear that!

We currently do not have integrations with them, but Collabwriting is a cloud-based product, so all your data is always saved and backed up for you to use on any device 😄

Nevertheless we plan on integrating it with Zapier so then you'll be able to sync it with everything mentioned 😊

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Q: Products can't get better and companies can't grow, unless the developers are open minded.

Since collabwriting is a research and knowledge management tool, if a collaborator want to share a critical piece of content that he got from some other source (may be he got it from a book or an offline journal, etc) why not allow him to share that? Instead of adding to comment, why not allow saving clip board content in the same way as you save highlighted excerpts? Since it is not a comment but a piece of content. This way we can share content not just from a webpage or pdf but also from other sources as well because you can't always expect all pieces of content from either a webpage or a pdf. If you have any valid reason for not allowing this, please enlighten us. Thanks.

salproPLUSSep 20, 2023
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Ivan_Collabwriting

Ivan_Collabwriting

May 15, 2024

A: Hey there 👋

You are totally right 😄

Our idea is to build Collabwriting in a way to enable our users to highlight any kind of information they find and this includes Photos (Books, Journals, Printed Reports), Audio and Video as well.

When it comes to books we currently support imports from Kindle. And we have a plan in the next 6 months to start working on our mobile app that will enable users to collect physical snippets through camera as well 😄

When it comes to clipboard, again, great observation. We've actually already partially developed this feature, but not to bug you with technical details, we hit a wall with browser's permissions to read user's clipboard.

So we paused a little bit on it to rethink the UX. Our biggest UX obstacle is that we would like to have at least some kind of warranty that copied snippet is somehow tied to the source. Nevertheless we have some ideas and we're working on it 😊

We're still a small team, yet we manage to push new features every 2 weeks and we'll continue doing so until Collabwriting is the go-to tool for doing any kind of research 😄

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