by Tim Owensby | Jul 17, 2023 | Competition, Curation, Feature
One of my earliest conversations with Jan DeSalvo about FastDraft was about competition. She talked about the applications she thought FastDraft directly competed with and why. She was very passionate about how FastDraft was better than any known competition in every...
by Tim Owensby | Jul 17, 2023 | Curation, Feature
From the very start RediDraft, like FastDraft before it, helps you organize your content to maximize reuse and ease of maintenance over time. There aren’t any templates like you find in other systems. The highest level of organization is the library. The...
by Tim Owensby | Jul 16, 2023 | Technology Stack
When I started to research available options for this next release decided to go with NodeJS on the server side over the Microsoft .NET stack and PHP. There are always tradeoffs with any technology choice and while I had some valid concerns about the security and...
by Tim Owensby | Jul 15, 2023 | Curation, Drafting, Feature
The basic premise behind all document assembly of any kind is you have some combination of boiler plate content and some combination of variable data that customizes that boiler plate content. Even in their earliest days almost all word processors supported some form...
by Tim Owensby | Jul 10, 2023 | Curation, Feature, Workflow
FastDraft and RediDraft supported the following variable types: Text (could be a gender variable) Multiple Choice (could be a gender variable) Numeric Calculation Date With the 2024 release of RediDraft a new variable type is introduced. Aggregate Think of an...