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What is Overleaf?

Overleaf is a collaborative writing and publishing system designed to make the process of producing academic papers much quicker for both authors and publishers, from Writelatex Limited in London.

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Victor PhilippeView profile
Graduate Research Assistant in Research & Development at University of Georgia (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Overleaf to write research papers in latex with collaboration in real time. It's one of the only products that allows for this and offers adequate storage and usage for students. There are many templates to get started for the various journals that you may want to submit to

Pros

  • Real time collaboration
  • Cloud storage
  • Keeping track of changes

Cons

  • IEEE benefits were removed
  • Commenting system could be better
  • Project organization could be better

Return on Investment

  • Improved collaboration speed
  • Seamless transition from various computers and platforms
  • Improved learning how to use LaTeX

Usability

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

Other Software Used

Grammarly

Overleaf for student reports

Incentivized
Jeanette Ærengren
Student at Aalborg University (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As students working in groups, we like to use Overleaf to write our project reports. The fact that you can work with several people on the same document at the same time just works really well for us. Together with the fact that you can see the changes right away is just really useful for our group work.

Pros

  • Teamwork
  • Organizing
  • Reliable

Cons

  • New user friendliness
  • More concise error messages
  • Layout

Most Important Features

  • Live updating document
  • Being able to have several people writing at once in the same document
  • Being in full control of the layout of the document

Return on Investment

  • Easier teamwork
  • Better looking reports
  • Better overview over document

Other Software Used

Miro, MATLAB, Maple

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Basheq TarifiView profile
Biomedical and Electrical Engineer in Engineering at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Overleaf for writing purposes, both scientific and collaborative. It functions well as an easy to use, easy to start up with, Latex editor without having to install additional software and compilers. One of my main use cases for Overleaf is as a tool for writing scientific and research papers with partners. I also use the documentation for Latex whenever I am lost with syntax.

Pros

  • Easy to get started and compile documents
  • Collaborative scientific writing
  • Latex documentation
  • Built in templates
  • Comments and chat features

Cons

  • Version history is a great feature but only available in the paid version

Most Important Features

  • Scientific Writing Collaboration
  • LaTeX Document Writing
  • Formatting of documents for different articles

Return on Investment

  • Easier to collaborate with team members
  • Easy reviewing of papers by colleagues
  • Simple to use latex publishing which promotes the use of it

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Other Software Used

Miro