Thanks Thorsten for your reply! it is not about programming and it is not about plain text files, but MS Office (Word) files..
Dropbox is not an option, maybe a document management system (DMS) with versioning, but it is not in place yet. And even if there is, how could I then track my workflow with Emacs? Kind regards Martin > Von: Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@googlemail.com> > Datum: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:14:42 +0100 > An: <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org> > Betreff: Re: [O] How to deal with small projects which are often changing > their status/ person > > M <elwood...@web.de> writes: > > Hi, > >> At the moment there are many little projects where I >> >> * get a text from someone (or write it myself) >> * have to read and edit it >> * send it oer email to 1 or 2 other colleagues which have to read / edit it >> * get it back and check the changes >> * maybe send the text again to the original author >> * then finally release the text for publication >> >> ... and you imagine, there is not only 1 such text at once but several of >> them. >> >> I wonder what is an approriate way to keep track of such workflows with >> org-mode.. > > this doesn't sound so different from several programmers working on the > same source code file, so I suspect that GIT is the best and the most > popular solution for collaborative work on plain text files. > > If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still > dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share > them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by > Dropbox. > > Or you wait for colorg to be released, that would probably fit your > needs exactly > > -- > cheers, > Thorsten > >
