
I’ve been thinking of writing several books lately and I came by this great guide on making a book using Google Docs over at Hackszine.
base document, bookmark properties, brian jepson, browser address bar, Consumer, Cool, docs, Documents, DoItYourself!, DoItYourself!, firefox, Google, hacks, hackszine, HOWTO, o reilly, Projects, shape, table of contentsCurrently, my editor Brian Jepson and I are collaboratively writing the book (tentatively titled) Google Office Hacks by O’Reilly using Google Docs. I wanted to outline the process we came up with, and maybe it’s helpful for you too for certain needs.
The base document we’re working on is the outline. It’s a linked table of contents which helps us to organize the broad shape of the book, and also see the status of progress. I’ve bookmarked the outline in Firefox and added a keyword shortcut within the bookmark properties, so to open it I just need to type “gohacks” into the browser address bar.