Great to see another product in this space (https://www.scigit.com/ launched not too long ago). As far as writing papers, my old-fashioned P.I. will probably never budge from Microsoft Word, so Google Docs is the best solution at the moment. The fact that they have "Google Scholar" integration for inserting citations into the editor makes it pretty much a no brainer for writing a draft.
Yikes! What field are you in? For most STEM folks, TeX seems to be pretty standard. I'd really love to see a collaborative TeX editor (web based?). Better yet... a collaborative emacs!
I'm in biology. The journals Nature and Science both specify that Microsoft Word is their preferred format for submissions and I'd be surprised if lots of others still do. Collaborative online TeX editors have been featured on HN before (https://www.writelatex.com/, https://www.sharelatex.com/).
TeX is what we are supporting currently, and should be launching shortly. If you drop me an email at toni (at) banyan.co, I will get you beta access in the next few days to our git powered, collaborative latex editor.
Thanks for pointing out scigit, Im a big fan of what they are doing. We dont support Word yet, but I do recognize that older P.I. / professors wont leave Word easily/ever. We have some solutions on the way for that.
