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Discontinued Editorially was discontinued in May 2014. The alternatives below are active products you can switch to. All discontinued →
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Alternatives to Editorially

Collaborative markdown writing

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Collaborative markdown writing. Editorially has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

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Who it's for

Writers, editors, and small editorial teams who drafted long-form articles or documents together and needed a shared space for review and revision rather than emailing files back and forth.

What you get

A browser-based Markdown editor with real-time collaborative editing, inline commenting tied to specific passages, a review/suggestion mode for proposing edits, and version history that let users compare and revert to earlier drafts.

How it works

A writer created a document in Markdown and invited collaborators, who could edit or leave comments directly in the browser; the team tracked draft revisions over time and exported the finished text when done.

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