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.