Writely’s not a good blog editor (at least not yet)
Writely’s a pretty cool Web-based word processor, but at this point it’s largely useless for blogging.
The editing features and general user experience are much better than the WordPress editor’s, though that’s a pretty low bar. Where Writely fails as a blogging tool is its inability to assign categories and the fact it can’t open and modify previous posts.
I’m writing this post in Writely and I’ll assign categories after-the-fact using Ecto. After this post I’ll begrudgingly continue using Ecto on the Mac and Windows Live Writer on Windows. Sigh.
The rest of the experience is solid. Writely is feature-rich enough that I don’t feel compelled to install Word on my PowerBook, though I would if I needed to write even moderately complex documents. Writely reminds me a lot of Google Spreadsheets, which probably shouldn’t surprise me.
One irony: Writely’s spell checker doesn’t recognize the name “Writely” and flags it as a misspelling.
Writely’s still in beta, so it will be interesting to see how it evolves over time.