写作方法2013writeboxapps.com
Writebox：与 Dropbox 同步的写作应用，支持 Chrome、iOS 与网页
Writebox – Syncs with Dropbox. Chrome, iOS, Web
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这篇介绍了一款与 Dropbox、Google Drive 同步的极简写作工具 Writebox，但评论区最有价值的讨论几乎都与产品文案有关：多位用户主动帮作者挑出落地页的拼写和语法错误，并指出英文错误会让用户不信任网站。对写作者来说，这是一次关于“校对就是可信度”的现场教学，也顺带提醒我们警惕“distraction-free”这类营销词的含水量。
可以直接用的写作要点
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发布任何面向公众的文字前，务必逐句校对拼写与语法——用户会据此判断你是否可靠。
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专有名词和技术词最容易出错，比如把 cache 写成 cash，这类低级错误会削弱整篇文案的专业感。
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改稿时可以直接给出“原句→改后句”的对照，让修改意见更具体、更易被接受。
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警惕“distraction-free”这类流行标签，它往往只是“featureless（功能贫乏）”的委婉说法，写产品文案时别用空词掩盖实质。
HN 评论精选
英文文案的错误会直接损害用户信任，作者应主动校对。
看起来不错。我顺手改掉了你文案里的一些拼写和语法错误。很多美国用户不信任英文写得差的网站，希望这些修改有帮助。
Kluny查看英文原文
Looks cool. I corrected some of your spelling and grammar errors. Many US customers distrust sites that have poor English in their copy. Hope it helps. ID and Password We don't store your Dropbox and Google Drive passwords. (We cannot access this information.) We store your OAuth token for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server. We store a cookie in your browser. We store your e-mail address for Dropbox and Google Drive in our server. This is for you to identify what account you use on Writebox. File Contents We don't store your file contents in our server, but save in your local cache. We don't read your file contents, we just convert file encoding to show characters correctly. We store the filepath of the thing you last opened in Writebox in our server. This is for syncing the last edit of the file across devices. Logging We collect analytics data through Google Analytics when you using Writebox. This is for the purpose of service improvement. We don't track individual users.
用“原句→改后句”的对照给出修改，是最有效的文案反馈方式。
很棒的产品。我同意第一条评论：建议把首页第二句从“Writebox helps you to concentrate to writing and seamlessly sync your wiring text accross all your devices.”改成“Writebox helps you concentrate on writing and seamlessly syncs your text writings across all your devices.”
cannonjunior查看英文原文
This looks brilliant. I agree with Kluny's first comment; if someone has an email for @kazuhiroshibuya, please tell him there is currently a spelling and grammatical error on the landing page. Suggest the second sentence be changed from: "Writebox helps you to concentrate to writing and seamlessly sync your wiring text accross all your devices." To: "Writebox helps you concentrate on writing and seamlessly syncs your text writings across all your devices."
cache 误写成 cash 这类技术词错误，既好笑又暴露校对不严。
大概是拼错了……但挺好笑：“我们不会把文件内容存在服务器，而是存进你的本地现金（cash）。”是不是该把 cash 改成 cache？……也可能不用改，好商业模式嘛。
tonetheman查看英文原文
Probably not spelled right... but funny. We don't store your file contents in our server, but save on your local for cash. Need to change cash to cache maybe?... or maybe not. Nice biz model. :)
“distraction-free”常是“featureless”的代名词，营销词要经得起推敲。
Chromebook 出厂时缺少能编辑本地文件和 Google Drive 文件的顺手的文本编辑器，Writebox 看起来能填补这个空缺，因为它能在 Google Drive 上打开和保存文件——尽管“免打扰”往往是“功能贫乏”的委婉说法。可惜它有个严重 bug：在 Google Drive 上编辑并保存 .html 文件后，Chrome OS 不再把该文件识别为网页，只当成文本文件。
prairiedock查看英文原文
Chromebooks out of the box lack any kind of straightforward text editor which will edit local files and/or files on Google Drive. (Google Drive is much more convenient to use on chromebooks than Dropbox.) Writebox looks as if it might be a candidate to fill this void, for it loads and saves files on Google Drive, even though 'distraction-free' tends to be code for 'featureless'. Unfortunately, it's got a serious bug, fatal for my usage, which the developer promised to fix over a month ago but which has not been fixed yet. If you edit and save a web page (i.e. an .html file) on Google Drive, Chrome OS no longer recognizes the file as a web page to be viewed in the browser, but only as a text file, to be viewed as text or edited. Eventually, this might be a good app. In the meantime, if you need a text editor for a chromebook, put it in developer mode, install Ubuntu 'cli-extras' with the Crouton script, and 'sudo apt-get install nano'. (Vim is also automatically installed by Crouton.)
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