Matteo Cantiello edited We_are_scientist_We_are__.tex  about 9 years ago

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The idea for Authorea came because we were writing scientific papers and we wanted to improve the way it is done. While Authorea has big plans for the paper of the future, in this post I want to focus on the here and now. When I talk about the platform to my colleagues, by far the most common question I get is "Why should I use Authorea to write my paper?" Here's why.  Let me start by saying that, as chief scientist at Authorea, I am obviously a biased party. This said I am an active researcher and I've been writing papers for several years. I've done it in many different ways: \latex with and without bibtex, sending n-tarballs via email (sic), paper version controlled with cvs or svn, and more recently with Authorea. I have written papers with 2 or 42 collaborators. I know from first hand experience that the pain can be real and I am truly interested in describing to colleagues what are the pros and cons of the different approaches.  they've been writing papers for years, sometimes decades. They've done good, they have their setup and somehow it works. Why changing?