Unleashing the Power of Collaboration: Transform Your Online Research and Sharing with Collabwriting

It is an incredibly exciting moment: to find something that has captured your attention and means so much you are compelled to share it with colleagues, friends or family. Whether it’s an opinion piece from a respected website, cutting-edge academic research or a meme that makes you laugh, the ability to share and discuss the content often makes the experience of being online worthwhile; indeed, the sharing aspect is one reason why the web has created a level of collaboration and conversation never before seen. Now imagine applying that ‘send’ button to the content of almost any website. That’s the essence of a browser extension called Collabwriting.

What Is Collabwriting?

Collabwriting is a Chrome-based web browser annotation tool, which can be used to take your online research and collaboration to the next level. This extension works across all Chromium browsers like Google Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi, Microsoft Edge, and a new challenger, the Brave browser – special shout-out to Arc – that have revolutionised and empowered web users in recent years. Firefox users will probably have to sit this one out – so far, there’s no support.

Choosing Your Plan: OPEN Doors to Enhanced Collaboration

1. Personal Plan: OPEN Your World for Free

If you want to get started with working together, the Personal plan is free, and it includes unlimited shareable/collaborative topics, highlights, comments, and topic-level access roles, as well as community support.

2. Personal Pro Plan: OPEN Up Unlimited Possibilities

For the ultimate in collaboration, the Personal Pro plan (starting at $10/month) opens the floodgates to unlimited contributors, an archive of topics, and the ability to export a workspace to PDF/print, in addition to contributor-level access and basic support.

3. Team Plan: OPEN New Horizons for Your Team

For a mere $15/month you’ll get access to the Team plan, secure yourself the opportunity to share the open collaboration field with three other people with workspace-level access; advanced search, so you can find all the information you need in an instant; and priority support: everything you need to facilitate your team’s collaborative effort.

Getting Started with Collabwriting

Step 1: Installation

You can expand your collaborative possibilities by first installing Collabwriting on your preferred Chromium-based web browser; next, log in with your Google, Microsoft or GitHub credentials, or a classic email/password combo.

Step 2: Dive into the Dashboard

Open the Collabwriting sidebar and behold your destiny! This is the Dashboard. Now it’s time to create your first topic, start to compose snippets, and let the magic happen.

Step 3: Share and Collaborate

Once pieces are in place, invite peers in by sharing links. The discussion and location-sharing sections are open with a free account: paid plans offer that extra distance.

Why Collabwriting?

In a digital era where collaboration and sharing is arguably more important than ever, Collabwriting offers an outlet that expands the pool of new research and dialogue, yet does so in such a manner that also extends elegance and efficiency of your daily online behaviour – now available when you want it and where you want it next. For self, school or a startup – Collabwriting offers a new world of possibilities.

OPEN Your Mind to Enhanced Collaboration with Collabwriting

Through Collabwriting, you could enter – willingly or not – a world where commenting on, annotating directly on the web page and discussing things online isn’t a far-fetched idea but is actually an invitation; where you could be invited to read, comment on, annotate, share, and collaborate on things online with your colleagues, friends and family. Instead of being a mere tool, Collabwriting could be the beginning of a different web, one where the experience of reading, commenting on, annotating and discussing the web is done together.

Opening Thoughts on Collabwriting

In its purest form, Collabwriting is the manifestation of the spirit of the times: ‘Open, collaborative and sharing’ as we often hear described the Web. It brings content and commentary side by side, eliminating their separation and leading to a more engaged, active and enriched expression of the web. If for some it can help investigate and research one or several topics more extensively, for the others it’s a way to share content and stories that they want to share. It’s about a universe where any web page, any article and any snippet can become a document on which you can collaborate, explore, annotate and expand.

Simple, elegant, user-friendly and firmly grounded on a belief that we could create something much more than just a bot that writes papers, Collabwriting is very much a witness to the hidden value of sharing, of open scholarship, where sparks of ideas land on unknown soil to bloom into new perspectives. As the world becomes more connected, it’s nifty tools such as Collabwriting that herald the future of interconnected scholarship.