Research collaboration has not advanced much in the last few decades. Researchers, as a whole, still write their manuscripts in Microsoft Word \cite{Pepe_2016}, emailing different versions back and forth amongst each other. This workflow predates online text editors. As a result, collaboration is slower and more tedious than what is technically possible today in 2017. This is why we built Authorea. It's a modern, collaborative online text editor for researchers that makes the process seamless. Below we highlight the pro's of preparing research with an online text editor like Authorea.

# Why should researchers write their papers with an online text editor?

## 1. Save your inbox from a deluge of unnecessary emails.

On average people receive 121 emails per day. Collaboration across labs, continents, and markup languages can lead to a messy inbox like below. In contrast, researchers who write online save time and their inbox.