: Software for collaborative writing for a small team I'm working on a writing project with a friend, and we're looking for some kind of (preferably cloud-based) project management and version control

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Hackpad is nice. CGScholar can be interesting to look at. I bookmarked a few others as well, maybe worth checking out.

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Check out booktype. You can read the review on forbes.com.

Booktype, according to the article, is an open source software designed for the purpose of collaborative book writing with features like native formatting, social capabilities (you can interact with other collaborators including chat for real time conversation) and other cool features.

Even though this is not as mature as version control systems used in software development, I think this is very promising.

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For me, as somebody said already, simple text files with markup languages (AKA Latex) with Github or Bitbucket is the best option not only because it will allow you to share your work with the people you need (editors and co-authors) but also because it will help you to safely backup your files and control every change.

Btw, both - Github and Bitbucket - are free for personal using.
The second one allows private repositories

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I would recommend giving Google Docs a try. It's free, and allows each of you to see eachothers changes as they happen in realtime.

Quite useful. Allows commenting and reviewing too, and there's inbuilt revision control so that you can go back and see who did what, and when.

Using version control systems might be too complex. I suggest this simplified solution.

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I use git for version control, and it's terrific for writing projects.

I've used GitHub to share work in progress while collaborating with a friend. We wrote plain text files in markdown format.

GitHub also has an Issues tracker that can easily be used to assign, accept, and track individual tasks. My friend and I didn't need that to collaborate, but I've used it for some of my open source software projects, and it can easily adapt to a writing project.

There is a small fee to use GitHub for private projects. Perhaps there are other open source hosting sites that offer free private projects or lower fees, and support other version control systems. BitBucket, for example, offers a free account with private projects and support for git and mercurial. I don't know whether they have a built-in issues tracker. You could always use a hosting site for versioning and sharing, and something like PivotalTracker for managing the work.

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You may try a google drive shared folder, which can contain both text, which you can co-edit, even simultaneously, and other genre files. And for tasks you can use a spreadsheet with the discussion system...

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If you are programmers, then why not use the same tools you use in your day job?

Trello may meet your needs.

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