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Substance

Substance.io is an amazing web-based document authoring and publishing platform. It basically allows anyone who fancies themselves a writer to use an open platform to collectively write or share some articles. Some prevailing platforms such as Google Docs presents the more traditional word- processing to the web, Substance’s emphasis lies on the content, by means of making the layout a segment of the layout.

Substance boasts itself with its “structured content- oriented” writing which leaves behind formatting utilities by the wayside. To allow anyone Cross Media Publish to subjective recipients, it utilizes a uniform data format.  In this regard,
it is able to publish to different media such as Print, E-book, or integration with a website. Hence, it differs a lot from the conventional Wiki Systems. What is more remarkable about this is that it doesn’t introduce any vendor lock-ins nor does it charges anything.

To get started, you need to make a free Substance account. Once you have one, you can now create a new document, just click the “New Document” icon and you will be taken to a page that shows an empty sheet of paper where you can compose. When you’re done with your document, you can publish it and share with the public. Just hit on the “Publish” icon and you’re content will be finally alive on the web.

Not only can you write your own content but Substance also allows you to search for documents. A search box is provided at the inside of the browser tab. You just need to key in a term and a list of documents will be presented. And in order to efficiently help you find content, Substance has provided navigation for filtering matched documents. What’s more is that it target open collaboration where readers can take part in by commenting on certain passages.