Documents aren’t built for discussion. | by Ayesha Bose | Medium

Today’s document tools aren’t built for discussion. We’ve seen so many improvements in how you can write docs like collaborative editing, relational tables, fancy blocks, and more. These features are powerful but they incentivize us to polish and present our ideas. We should spend less time writing documents and more time discussing the ideas. Writing documents is a standard part of most work today. You have context to share, a proposal that you want feedback on, notes from a meeting, etc. I’ve used so many different document editors from Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, Dropbox Paper, Notion, Coda — it kind of feels like there’s a new document editor every month to try out. We’ve seen so many improvements in the way you can write a document to communicate your ideas that it’s almost hard to tell the difference between a document and a website now. To be clear, I think these improvements are great! Just this week, I used Notion to build a 13 x 10 table with complex formulas to prior

Today’s document tools aren’t built for discussion. We’ve seen so many improvements in how you can write docs like collaborative editing, relational tables, fancy blocks, and more. These features are powerful but they incentivize us to polish and present our ideas. We should spend less time writing documents and more time discussing the ideas. Writing documents is a standard part of most work today. You have context to share, a proposal that you want feedback on, notes from a meeting, etc. I’ve used so many different document editors from Microsoft Word, Pages, Google Docs, Dropbox Paper, Noti