Writano is built for co-authorship. You can share a whole project with a collaborator, decide whether they can edit or only view, and then write together with live cursors, comments, and chat.
Send an invite
Open the Share dialog from the editor. As the project owner, enter your collaborator’s email and choose their access level:
- Can edit — full editing of the document and its files.
- Can view — read-only access, with copy and scroll but no changes.
The invitee receives a link. Access is granted only once they accept — a pending invite holds a seat but does not open the document, so nobody sees your work before they have agreed to collaborate. When they accept, you get a live notification and the share list updates.
Work together in real time
Once a collaborator is in, editing is live:
- Every person has a colored cursor and a name pill; you can follow someone or jump to where they are.
- Comments attach to a selection and thread with replies;
@mentionsnotify a specific person. - Chat is available per project for discussion that isn’t tied to a spot in the text.
Presence is mode-aware — a co-author’s badge shows whether they are in the visual, LaTeX, or Markdown surface.
Change or revoke access
The owner controls permissions at any time:
Flipping someone from edit to view takes effect immediately, and removing a collaborator revokes their access to the project, its figures, and its references.
Note: Shared access covers the project’s figures and reference library too, so a collaborator can see the charts and cite the sources that belong to the shared project — but a view-only collaborator cannot overwrite a figure.
Teams
For a group that collaborates regularly, a Team plan adds per-seat billing and a roster, so entitlements follow the team rather than being managed one share at a time.