holdenweb
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3 years ago Since the introduction of the database it's easier to get to the document content that's locally stored. but the experience is still far from satisfactory. We are now starting to have enough critical mass in the software to improve things, however. An ideal document selection tool would show the available templates and allow the user to select one, for example. This is now a fairly easily reachable goal, though any collaborators will still have to wade through mountains of irrelevancy for which I can only apologise.
At the moment the software is driven by copying and pasting document Ids, which is acceptable for a proof of concept but absolutely useless for any other kind of productive work.
Given that the system already integrates a web server one possibility is to build a page within it that allows the user to create a new document in Google Docs, registering it in the local database at the same time and thereby making each document a manageable document. It would also be convenient to be able to register existing documents easily through a web interface of some kind.