SavvyDox | Blog

14 Jul Simplifying the Confusion

Posted at 13:31h in Uncategorized by Dan Lesage

Managing documents, especially using collaboration, can be a very complex, confusing and frustrating process. Let’s take a look at some key issues that may be encountered. Almost everyone bumps into version control issues. If you are distributing a Word document via email, version control becomes a huge…

27 Mar Enhanced Review for Scrivener Authoring

Posted at 14:44h in Uncategorized by Dan Lesage

One of our developers came to me recently, excited about how much SavvyDox was helping him in the review cycle for a novel he’s writing. The authoring software he’s using is called Scrivener, which is popular with writers who are attempting to produce a large work. What…

24 Mar SavvyDox in Contract Reviews

Posted at 12:23h in Uncategorized by Hans Downer

Think of today’s process that is involved in negotiating a contract or an M&A transaction. The document goes from Lawyer A (Alice) to Lawyer B (Bob) for comments. Bob marks up the document and sends it back to Alice. If Bob makes any significant changes…

03 Mar Mac OS Reader Beta 2 Now Available

Posted at 14:09h in Uncategorized by Dan Lesage

Our second (and final) beta of our Mac OS reader is now available from the downloads page. The reader is now fully functional although there remain some UI improvements, particularly in the areas of Notes that we’d like to complete before declaring it ready for…

04 Feb Safety in the workplace

Posted at 18:57h in Uncategorized by Hans Downer

All employers are worried about the safety of their assets, whether they are computers, oil refineries, chemical plants, nuclear refineries, Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) refineries, or hundreds of other things. However, even more important is the safety of your employees within those environments. OSHA standards dictate…

27 Jan Relieving the stress of Collaborative and Contract Reviews

Posted at 17:30h in Uncategorized by Hans Downer

If you’re the author of a document that is being reviewed by multiple people in parallel, what is the biggest single problem that you face in the review process? If it’s a contract, what is your biggest concern? We’ve done some research on these two…

13 Jan Aligning Document Collaboration with Collaboration in a Face to Face Meeting

Posted at 21:34h in Uncategorized by Hans Downer

Freedictionary.com provides the following definition of collaboration – to work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort. There are multiple types of collaboration, so let’s compare and contrast two of the most common forms – collaboration in a face to face meeting and document collaboration. During collaboration…

09 Jan Review Inertia – Overcoming the Dread of Catching Up on Document Updates

Posted at 20:02h in Uncategorized by Dan Lesage

Enjoying getting back to work after the holidays? As you look through your prioritized list of tasks, they will inevitably include the dreaded “Please review changes to my document and provide feedback”. You consider the number of pages in that doc when you last saw…

17 Dec SavvyDox Improves the MS Word Experience

Posted at 13:00h in Uncategorized by Hans Downer

Can you read it? As we progressed through the design of SavvyDox, it became very clear that we were coming up with a solution that went way beyond version control – it was a whole new paradigm surrounding change tracking and collaboration. The final piece of…

12 Dec Document Review for Pages Users

Posted at 22:25h in Uncategorized by Steve Tibbet

Apple’s Pages word processor is an excellent word processor. And, with iOS 7 and Mavericks, they’ve made it free. That’s a hard price to beat. Although Pages can’t do everything that Microsoft Word can do, this is often more of a feature than a limitation. Pages…