I was reading Catspaw's blog today, and she was talking about how they take notes in class - pretty damn cool. Back in the day (8 years ago) when I went to school, we didn't have these new-fangled devices like laptops. Actually, I had a 486 laptop for a while, but vi doesn't exactly equate.

And she turned me on to this new tool: SubEthaEdit.

I'll let her describe the scene:

If you're standing in the front of a classroom, you're likely to notice that the Mac users are all doing the one-mind borgish thing. They all grin, then they all type, then they all listen. Chances are very high that they're all using SubEthaEdit to collaboratively take notes. One student types in the main content of what is being said. Another follows behind and corrects spelling mistakes while a third adds a few extra points. Perhaps another is ahead of the rest, creating structure for the rest of the document -- preparing HTML lists and section headings. Collaborative note taking doesn't just happen in the classroom. It's become a new fad for everything from conferences to meeting minutes to collaborative email composition and more.

Man, I wish we could have done that when I was in school. I may have actually gone to class in that case.

This got me thinking about the pair-writing that Johanna and Esther did last year. This is incredibly cool stuff - collaborative writing.

It also got me thinking that it would be REALLY cool to do over bluetooth - that's the next killer app in my opinion: sitting in a room, collaborating on a document via Bluetooth.

SubEthaEdit is now my default text editor on my Mac. Now, if only I can get someone to do some collaborative blogging with me.