Draftback Draftback

Productivity
Version: 0.0.15
Last Update: 2022-02-13

Overview

Draftback is a Chrome extension developed by jsomers. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Draftback is 0.0.15, updated on 2022-02-13.
0 users have installed this extension. 106 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .
developer website: jsomers.net

The archaeology of great writing

Draftback lets you play back the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. It's like going back in time to look over your own shoulder as you write.

PRIVACY POLICY

I designed the extension to be as careful as possible about user privacy. No data is collected by me, except in one unusual case: if a user explicitly decides to publish an excerpt of their playback to draftback.com, that excerpt will (obviously) be available on the public web at an obscure URL. This feature is hard to find, little-used, and after a recent update may in fact not work anymore.

It's possible that Google itself collects some user data on every one of its extensions, in which case Draftback wouldn't be an exception.

But, to reiterate, user data is stored locally on the user's computer and it is only stored/collected there so that future replays of an already-replayed document will go faster.

OTHER NOTES

- With Draftback, your data is kept entirely private. Draftback was purposely designed so that you could play back your own docs without having to share them with a third party. This is -your- data; Draftback just lets you see it in a new way.

- Draftback only needs access to docs.google.com to get the revision data for playback—but that data never leaves your own browser.

- New!: It's now possible to extract any part of a doc's playback and embed it on the web. (This, of course, makes that extract accessible to the public.)

- Draftback has been tested with large documents, but you may run into trouble with REALLY large docs. If that happens, shoot me a note ([email protected]) and I'll try to get to the bottom of it.

Rating

106 ratings

Total Installs

0

Information

Last Update

2022-02-13

Current Version

0.0.15

Size

932KiB

Author

jsomers

Website

jsomers.net

Category

Productivity

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avatar Luis A. Socías Contreras
2021-04-06

EXCELENT I COULD RECOVER LOST WORK THANK YOU!!!!

avatar JORDI BARDAJI CUSO
2021-01-29

It is a very useful extension. It is very convenient for teachers to discover plagiarism. I would love the same extension for sheets.google.
Thank you so much, it’s wonderful.

avatar Yuna K
2020-09-02

Helpful for a writer hoping to analyze their own writing habit and style

It'd be nice if we can manage the Extraction for Embed, such as deleting them at will whenever we want, or the ability to maintain a list of where the embedded pieces are shared.

avatar Zachary Matthews
2020-04-12

I decided to test this with a paper I wrote awhile back, and while it do show the typing and edit history, it struggled to keep track of everything. At times it would put words places that they are not in reality, miss some deletes, and not put in all of the paragraph enters. As a result, the end result according to the program is a mess from what it was originally. And an additional problem is that it doesn't capture any of the formatting. This is a cool product, I just wish it better matched the original document in the end.

avatar Boris Verkhovskiy
2019-08-15

It doesn't actually work, the text is very mangled, and at the end of the replay the doc is missing parts and doesn't look anything what the real doc does (although in the little preview window it looks much better) but still very cool