cctext

The Fastest Enterprise Wiki You've Ever Seen

Today, we have released a CCText Small Team plan, which is free for the teams having no more than 3 users in cctext.  As always, this free plan users will have the ability to create Unlimited Workspaces in their accounts, and Unlimited Topics/Pages in every workspace.

Give it a try and begin your free travel in cctext:

1. Visit  create account page,  name your account, and click “Next” button.
2. Add a few necessary information to your account.
3. Click the button, “I accept. Create the account for my team.”, at bottom to create your account.
4. CCText will send an email to you, including your Account URL, screen name, temporary password.
5. Now, please visit that account URL, sign in.

Now, you are in your account home page. There are a few basic things to do:

• Add other users. This work begins on the home page too. Click “Add new person” on the side bar and go into the add person page. Here, fill in the necessary information of this person, such as screen name(can not be modified in future), full name and email.
• Create your workspace. Click the “Create workspace” button on the sidebar,  then fill the name, and select members(you can do this in future).
• Create the Topics. Topic belongs to Workspace. One topic is one page. Main page can be the navigation page in current account.
• Add and Manage members in workspace. The Members button on the sidebar can bring us to member list page. Here, click “People access& permission” button, then you can change all members’ access easily.

Here are screenshots for understanding CCText better:

Home Page of your account

Main Page of a Workspace

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CCText calls itself an enterprise wiki tool. The point is the advantages on collaboration and usability. This post will share some experiences to manage projects in CCText.

The first thing we do is to go to the Home page, and create a workspace for new project. For example, a new workspace named XMind for our another product, XMind. This is simple. Click “Create Workspace” button and enter into creation page.

After naming the workspace and setting the member permission, we will be on the Main Page of XMind workspace.

Main page is like the dashboard in some other tools.  We will type some basic information about the project, and list Recent Work, Versions, Marketing things, and other important things.
Now, the main page is the menu of this workspace, the framework of this project.

The follow important thing is to create Templates from different tasks. For XMind, we need the Version Template, Meeting Template, Marketing Template, Customer support Template, and etc.
Template is a topic too. What we should do is just create a topic, add some basic info, and click “Mark as Template” button.
Below is the Version Template:

Here, on the topic toolbar, “Mark as Template” button has become “Don’t mark as Template”.
While create a new topic for XMind V3.1.1, we can directly select “Version” in template field.
The next is to prepare other templates.

Now, here, Keep our ideas, feature requests, prototypes, and tasks in one page. It’s a better way for collaboration.

BTW, on the sidebar, there are many useful tools. Maybe, CCText offers us a Transformers.

As a collaborative wiki, CCText could help you understand and control all the changes in your account, workspace, even topics faster, better and easier.

Real-time Activities
Every account has a Home page, which is a little like a dashboard of your account. The major content here is the latest activities in this account. They are real-time.

The activities are listed by time order. The latest one is on the top. CCText labels the workspace with different colors. Then we can distinguish them and find the important things easily.

Watch your Topic/Task

Click the Star icon(Watch) on any a topic page, CCText will list all changes happened on this topic in “My Watchlist”, where we can easily switch to.

This page is a little bit like the home page. CCText still uses the different color to label workspaces. Every change has the workspace, topic name, modifier, time.

Email Notification
Some time, the watch is not good enough. We can not go to the account in time. But we open our email every day. So, cctext will Send us a message when my watched topics have been modified, Or Send us the daily activity of our watchlist. (One message per day.)

More important, while receiving an email which tell us the changes in our watched topics, we can reply that email to add more information.

These designs are good at helping us to monitor or trace the tasks, project process, and more.
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On the Christmas day, cctext brought us the brand-new home page and some new features. Now, while you are first time on cctext.net, you can understand easily What is CCText and What CCText can help you.

At this section, we can see four key features (Collaboration, Rich Content Sharing, Access Control, and Friendly to Google Apps users), and the references from WebAppStorm.  If you are still hesitating to enhance your work with CCText, a brand-new wiki tool, please read the article below and watch Video to understand wiki deeply.

At this part, CCText shows us how it helps us, such as Event Planning, Project Management, Knowledge Base, even CRM.

Want to know more? Sign Up your own account NOW.
Note that, Every new account can let 10 people collaborate with each other ONE month free, or 2 people FIVE months, or 1 person TEN months.

Christmas and New year is coming.

It’s a time to celebrate, celebrate for what we have gained in 2009.
It’s a time to expect, expect a promising future.
This colorful season, we are honored to have all your support.
This gorgeous year, we step together all the way.

At present, the whole CCText team is working hard every day for next big release. Soon, we will see a more powerful cctext.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

At last, on this Thanksgiving Day, we also would like to take the opportunity to thank you, our friends, thanks for all your support, thanks for being with cctext. We believe that with your support, your understanding, your patience, CCText will get better and better.

Recently, we have received many great suggestions, and we are working hard to let cctext better too.

We are so deeply grateful to all of these, and we will take this as our forward momentum!

Wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Chris Bowler, the editor of web.appstorm.net, recently wrote a Roundup about the web wiki applications, and picked out 10 Top Web Wiki Applications. Besides this, he has done another very important thing: Bring us back to the core of Wiki.

What is Wiki, and Why we need a wiki? Chris answered these two questions clearly at the beginning. Wiki is designed for collaboration, which is also the reason we use it. What coincidence is, CCText is also devoted itself to be The Best Collaborative Wiki.  Basing on this mind, cctext has a friendly look,  and some well-designed features. Maybe this is why CCText was chose as the best one by Web App Storm. (cctext looks extremely promising and I think it can be the leader in this space. – Chris)

In cctext, we can create unlimited numbers of Workspace. In every workspace, there is no number limitation for creating topics, and adding members, no space limitation for uploading  files.  Obviously, Workspace == Wiki. And one CCText account is a group of Wikis.
To raise the efficiency, cctext designs multiple ways for communication and tracing. For example, entering into our workspace, cctext lists all activities in chronological order. And when we are reading a topic, clicking “Watch” button, cctext will lists all change of this topic in our Watchlist page.

Although Chris Bowler evaluated cctext as “A clean design is a great start, but it also has all the features you’d want.”, CCText is still in Beta We are still developing and improving it. . We are learning the advantages of others.  And all features and designs have one prime rule: benefiting to collaboration.

Maybe this is the real wiki, and this is cctext.

P.S.  The original post is 10 Top Web Wiki Applications by Chris Bowler.

CCText has been in public beta for a month. We are very appreciating all enthusiastic people. Your suggestions are quite to the point, which help cctext to improve itself.
Here, let’s list something special in cctext:
1. One plan, but Flexible and Powerful. cctext only offers one plan, $4 per user per month.  No matter how many departments/groups/teams in your company,  do not worry. In our account, we can create unlimited workspaces. In each workspace, we can also create as many Topics as required.  Of course, we can share as many files as we want.

2. Workspace-level Access Control:  CCText account is made up of many workspaces. Every member has four status in a workspace: No Access, Viewer, Collaborator,  and Manager. Viewer can just read all topics and files. Collaborators can creates/modifies topics, upload/download/delete files. Manager has duty to manage members/topics/files in his workspace.

3. Unlimited Resource: Benefit of cloud computing, cctext is able to offer you unlimited resources. There is no amount limitation on workspace. Now any small group, even one person, in company can have their own collaboration area. Topic has no limitation as well. So  A workspace == A Wiki.  Here, knowledge has no boundary. You can also store as many files as you want in cctext.*

4. Improvement on Speed: We often hear complaint about spending much time on writing, editing and saving information. CCText does much work to improve the speed. Now, cctext is the fastest enterprise wiki.

5. Simple Markup editor without remembering markup:  Although cctext designs its own and simple markup editor, we have not to remember any markups while editing topic. In fact, till now, I only remember a few. Most time, I just use the plain text. Because the default theme has been beautiful enough. Sometimes, I have to add format, Toolbar can help me out.

6. Real-time Preview:  This is a very close design in cctext. While you are editing a topic, or a section, there is a preview below the editor. This preview shows the real result simultaneously.

7. Friendly to Google Apps users: If your company is using google apps, you are lucky. You can create your cctext account less than 10 seconds. Without no more work, all members in Google Apps can sign into cctext with Google Apps account directly.

It would be our pleasure to hear your voice about cctext in your eyes.

* File upload limits: 100M per file, 1G per user per month.

This weekend, cctext released the latest version(Milestone 8, AKA M8) with some exciting new features and improvements. Below are most new features, and improvements.

Translation
You can easily to translate every topic into your own language in current cctext. Scroll down at any a topic page, click “translate Article” at the right sidebar, and select the language you want. Now there are 13 options for you.

Multiple admin and admin announcement
We can choose multiple members as admin in the account. Admin is very important and has many special responsibilities, such as member management, invoice management and etc. So multi-admin could enhance the flexibility for some companies.
Now, admin has another special right, Announcement. Once there are some very important news, announcement will help admin to notice every member.
Member Access Control
Workspace in cctext is a very important access control tool. we create different workspace for every group/small team/subject. And now, to let access control better, every member in a workspace could be “Viewer”, “Collaborator”, or “Manager”.
Shortcut to save and close
With Ctrl-Shift-S (Shift-Cmd-S on Mac), we can quickly save and close current editor.

Some improvements
This update also has some other improvements on usability. For example,

1. admin can upload a CSV file with certain format to add many members one time.
2. Google Apps user will have a better experience while signing in.
3. Discussion (at the bottom of every topic) has a improved design
4. and more

Of course, we fix many bugs. So with this blog, we also want to express our appreciation to all users. Your suggestions, bug reports and criticism are very important while we updating cctext.

Thank you all again! Hope to hear more from you.

P.S. Now your cost to use cctext is just US$4.00 per user per month.

Recently, I read a conversation with a friend talking about the wiki editor, who think WYSIWYM is not good enough now. It lets users have to learn and remember many things and can not enhance work efficiency. After I showed her how cctext editor work, which is a WYSIWYM editor too. She believed me that WYSIWYM is not a barrier.

Although we said cctext is WYSIWYM editor, and even we design our own markup system, but you have not to know anything about it when you first time use it. Because cctext editor has beautiful toolbar. So while working in cctext, we can just focus on the content, which should be the center in our work. And before ending the work, toolbar could help us to format the content. Here, while she was formatting the content, she found that the real-time preview is really useful. She can see the real result.
For some people who do not like the formatting, they can even not use any markup in your content. The default UI is clean and friendly too.

Content should always be at the first place in our communication and collaboration. This is what cctext believe in.