The beginning of a fantastic writing tool.
Rating: 9 out of 10
IncentivizedUse Cases and Deployment Scope
We're incorporating it into our product development process to provide our content designers with the ability to control and produce UI material. We had developers produce stuff on the fly all the time, and they frequently misspelled our product name (among other things!). Or we had out-of-date stuff that would require engineers to change, which would take forever. Writer solves this problem by providing a single, simple interface to our Git repositories.
Pros
- My favorite aspect is how clear and accurate the sections for the many components of style are.
- They are thought-provoking in the sense that you don't always analyze the significance of where a comma is used or the capitalization of a word - until it becomes a problem.
- Creating our own language, typical blunders, and prohibited phrases.
Cons
- There is some setup required to get your word lists in there, adjust your editing style, and set up typical errors, but otherwise it works similarly to other programs (but worth it in my opinion).
- Their web editor loses formatting, which several team members have complained about. However, formatting is properly retained in GDocs, Word, and the Chrome extension. There is some setup required to get your word lists in there, adjust your editing style, and set up typical errors, but otherwise it works similarly to other programs (but worth it in my opinion).
- I wish it were easy to provide solutions to complex problems rather than simply highlighting them.
Likelihood to Recommend
We have many employees that write across the organization, from proposals in business development to marketing to the communications team, and the team members come from a diverse spectrum of cultural and professional backgrounds. It's useful to have a distinct voice in the market and to clean up items that don't sound as fluent or clear.
Martin Lee
Ingeniero de software in Engineering at OutSystems (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
3 years of experience