Overleaf vs. TextPad

Overleaf is good to use in a lot of scenarios where something is to be written as a group. However, I believe that it is only good up to a certain amount of people working on the document at once. While I am unsure when it becomes too much, I got no doubt that there is a limit for when it is that good. Though normally, our group size of up to six people has been fine to work with in Overleaf.

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I like the macro feature for transforming text. For example, taking a CSV file of data and quickly turning it into a set of SQL "insert" statements. Also, useful for this is the find/replace feature using regular expressions such as taking a URL QueryString and breaking all the parameters into separate lines and perhaps sorting them for review.

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• Easy to get started and compile documents
• Collaborative scientific writing
• Latex documentation
• Built in templates
• Comments and chat features

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• Quick to load.
• Very fast searching algorithm for finding and replacing text.
• Macros are very useful.

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• New user friendliness
• More concise error messages
• Layout

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• I would like a "delete non-bookmarked lines" so I can skip the "invert bookmarks" step.
• The "Compare Text Files" could be streamlined to compare text in 2 tabs without going through the save steps.

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I never had to use support, so I can't answer this. I would hope that it is good though.

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Overleaf promotes collaboration and has much better scientific formatting, which makes it great for research papers. It allows for much smoother and more professional looking documents, with easy to change and configure formatting. It is very difficult to insert mathematical formulas and long complex derivations in Microsoft Word, and formatting in Microsoft Word is also very finicky.

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When you want to quickly edit a file, TextPad starts up quickly and has many features over Microsoft Notepad. Visual Studio Code is an alternative in that it is full-featured and will edit text files but is slower at startup. I prefer the macro feature in TextPad due to its simplicity.

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• Easier teamwork
• Better looking reports
• Better overview over document

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• Made my job easier, so I would say it had a positive return on investment. Especially for it's overall low cost.

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