Review of ZOHO Personal

I tried out the app Zoho today. This is a very useful application with several different options all in one place.
You can set up this site to get mail from all your different email address. (I did have a problem getting the site to accept my passwords but I did have success with a few different emails).





More options include Calender, Desktop, Writer (documents aka word), Sheet (spreadsheets aka excel), Show (slide show aka PowerPoint), Meeting, Wiki, Task, Notes, Links, Notebook.

Below is a screen shot from Sheet it was very easy to use and anyone who has ever used Excel will have no problem adjusting to the difference.



I also really like the notebook feature. It kind of like a personal notebook. On one page you can put music and add text telling why you put that music or whatever you wish. You then click add new page and its like you just turned a page in your notebook and you can add anything else you would like from text, pictures, music, videos.



The last thing I would like to review is Writer. Writer is very simple to use as shown in the directions below. All the features that you normally get in a Office format are available.

Welcome to Zoho Writer

Your Word Processor on the Web

Zoho Writer is the word processor designed for you, the next generation web citizen. Built using AJAX technology, it's fast and revolutionizes the way you work with documents. Having all your documents online (and offline too! we'll get back to that later!!), you have access to them from any computer, at home or at work. And no more emailing them back-and-forth to your colleagues, clients or friends for review, thanks to its instant collaboration, inline commenting and chat facilities.

Zoho Writer's functionalities below :

Formatting Options:

Bold, italicize, underline, set back ground color & color your words, link to a web page, set margins, use cool smileys and do much more. Use the same keyboard shortcuts as with any other word processing application for accessing these functions.

Spell Check

What's a word processor without a spell checker? Zoho Writer's does all the dirty spell checking work for you so that you needn't worry about whether it's receive or recieve

Pictures

Want to decorate your document with pictures & images? Insert pictures and images in your Zoho Writer documents as you would in a normal word processor. Pull and place pictures both from your desktop as well as from the web. See how the image/picture looks like using 'Image Preview'. Shrink to fit in case the image/pic is of larger size. And set properties for the inserted pic/image like border, spacing as well.

Tags as Folders
	Get the best of both worlds. Tags are the new folders. Not sure whether you want to put a document in the Sales or Marketing folder? That's where tags-as-folders come in. Make the document available in both the folders! Now, isn't that cool?

Post to your blog

Being on the web, you can post to your blog from within Zoho Writer. As you have seen above, Zoho Writer's WYSIWYG editor is more feature-rich than a typical blog editor's. Be it Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, LiveJournal, TypePad or any blog that supports metaWeblog API, you can make the post from Zoho Writer. You can add tags and make the post optionally as a draft as well!

Comments Add inline comments to particular paragraphs/sentences of a document. You & your friends (or your team members & your boss) can add comments in a document you are collaborating on. Adding contextual comments is very useful for reviewing purposes. And this comes in handy for journalists/editors & teachers/students, in particular.

Bulleted Lists
Zoho Writer makes it easy

1. to have
2. numbered or
   
   • bulleted lists.
   • And there is support for
     
3. multiple levels as well
4. 
   

Insert Tables Make tables and adjust the cell properties with ease. Pick easily the number of rows/columns.

Column Header1	Column Header2	Column Header3
Table Cell 11	Table Cell 12	Table Cell 13
Table Cell 21	Table Cell 22	Table Cell 23
Table Cell 31	Table Cell 32	Table Cell 33

Share your documents
Instead of mailing your documents to everyone, share them. And Zoho Writer makes it more than just sharing. You can give Read or Write permissions for each sharing participant. Collaborate real-time on the document and there's the added chat functionality as well!

Go Offline

Not sure you'll have internet access all the time? Zoho Writer allows you to take your documents offline. You can view as well as edit your latest 25 documents offline. Changes made during offline editing will be synced with the online version once you switch.

Integration With Other Zoho Apps

Zoho Writer comes from the widely diversified stable of Zoho. Signing up with Zoho Writer allows you to access a plethora of Zoho apps - be it our web based spreadsheet tool, Zoho Sheet, the online presentation creator, Zoho Show or the net meeting enabler, Zoho Meeting. The integration doesn't stop with just single sign-on. You can embed sheets and slideshows. And here's more - any change done to the sheet/slideshow gets automatically reflected in your Zoho Writer document! Those are just a few things that can be done with Zoho Writer. You will get to discover more as you work with it.