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sergiortellez
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 Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject: Team Work |
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I'm happy and exited about Curio 8, but I was really disappointed about the obvious lack of collaborative capabilities. Nobody works alone, or nobody should. It's a nightmare to work on a same curio document with a team. Changes are constantly lose, ore someone has to end copy/pasting the changes. But if a team member needs to comment on others work they have to get out of the application. This is very frustrating, because curio is meant to be the binder where brainstorming and organization of a project happens. Really? brainstorming alone? As a veteran curio user I strongly believe collaborative Curio should be the very next step for Zengobi.
Repositories syncing in dropbox is cool. But not even close to really useful. Right now I'm building a company, and I'm the solitary (and lonely) Curio user of the company just because when we try to use it as a company the result was just frustrating.
What do you think about this? |
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george
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Curio 8's new file format is a first step in that direction. We've moved away from the monolithic asset library to individual asset files which will make it much easier to support multi-user functionality down the road. |
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jjweimer
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Location: UAHuntsville, Huntsville, AL
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| Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2012 6:49 pm Post subject: Re: Team Work |
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| sergiortellez wrote: | | I'm happy and exited about Curio 8, but I was really disappointed about the obvious lack of collaborative capabilities. Nobody works alone, or nobody should. It's a nightmare to work on a same curio document with a team..... |
Just a counter response in support of Zengobi here ...
George made a huge step forward with Curio on this release. The groundwork is there to go in many different directions. He seems receptive to the ideas you have put forward. Also, my read across a spectrum of forums is that Zengobi is not alone in being asked (respectfully) to support collaborative work methods. Curio and many of the other apps started as a tool for one person to do his/her work effectively. They now have to expand to met the new calling. This expansion is a far bigger step to take than starting with a collaborative-based tool and building back the privacy tools required for individuals to be efficient.
So ... in the meantime, without being disrespectful to what you are trying to do otherwise, I might suggest that you consider investing in a central server with SVN or GIT capabilities. You might also develop your own internal ISO-XXX certifiable methods to develop and use cross-shared documents, be they from Curio or Word or Keynote or LaTeX or ... The effort will do much good in setting a solid groundwork for future expansion as the tools you want become available. Certainly, what you do not want is to use an application with full collaborative capabilities and, even so, loose your way because you apply ambiguous, unclear, and ultimately unreliable methods to share and sustain the collaborative content among your employees. IMO, that seems to be the path you might be taking now, with frustration then being expressed in part as a vent at Curio for not being able right now to do the effortless type of collaborative work that you want.
In summary ... Curio is really not that bad ... in fact ... it is awfully darn good by many standards. Understanding the limitations that it has for you to collaborate, I believe that taking a few reasonable steps on your own could actually make Curio work for what you want even without it having collaborative tools formally built-in. Those steps might then help also tame the nightmares that you are having.
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Tylast
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| Posted: Sat Apr 20, 2013 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| george wrote: | | will make it much easier to support multi-user functionality down the road. |
How long down the road? |
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george
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| Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Collaboration functionality is a major release not a minor release. |
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