What other Etherpad-type tools would you recommend?
For dealing with less-tech-literate people, Google Docs is nice because they instantly recognize and understand it (and they can see me collaborating at the same time and I don't need to explain anything).
If you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io
It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.
Re:Hackpad
by ingrownpsyche on Monday November 04, 2013 @06:30PM
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Titanpad.
Google Docs has never felt webby to me. It feels like a big Flash or ActiveX component, as it's mostly aiming to emulate 1990s desktop software, with menu-bar and all. So it carries considerable UI baggage and is not a clean web app with a DOM that could be effectively inspected or manipulated.
For real-time collaboration, I much prefer Etherpad-type tools as they're lightweight. For private one-off docs, I find secret Gists much simpler to deal with.