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Writely will update to use Google Account for a user to  sign in,  if  he/she registered the Writely account with a gmail address.

It’s fantastic! It would be even better if the Google guys put a writely shortcut to Writely on the top left bar of Gmail just like Spreadsheets.

Writely nicely supports E-mailing documents. To use it, click E-mail In, on the opened page you will see an e-mail address which is unique to you.

Now write and send something to this address using your favorite mail tool(for me it is surely Gmail). The mail subject will be the title of the document and the body will be the content of the document.

You can also attach any supported documents to the email, which will be converted to separate Writely documents.

One thing you should notice is that if you add the unique address as a contact of your Gmail account, when you send anything to it use the “nickname”, you will receive an error message from Gmail’s delivery system:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
youruniqueaddresshere@prod.writely.com

Upset huh? Why can’t I send to Writely using my Gmail. Google has purchased Writely!

Don’t worry. It seems to be odd but you have to put the pure address into the “To” filed, not the friendly Writely yournuiqueaddreesshere@prod.writely.com form. Now try again and you will receive the Writely confirmation mail before long.