How does everyone use Messages vs. Writeboard? I am using the writeboard for almost everything – can’t see what the use for messages would be?

How about for posting messages? Its not meant to be complicated.

I agree there are some overlap, but messages are vital for sending messages. I use Writeboards for putting up briefs.

We use writeboards very often!
Before an important mail is sent, everyone gets to read it, and we can very easily track the changes that are made.
We can work together on content of websites, we can have a list of all the people we are in touch with, ...

We use both of these features, the way they were designed to be used: Messages to communicate information about projects, and Writeboards for collaborating on copy. Often, the first draft of a piece of copy is written in a desktop app — I like WriteRoom — and then the text is dropped into a Writeboard where everyone can work on it together…

They’re totally different things, and both indispensible.

Writeboards are an amazing collective writing tool. What is especially good is the compare versions feature.

If only we could put them into groups and/or order them by date. I might start sticking the date in the title so they order themselves automatically.

A bit of a Soviet approach to fixing functionality but it will put the man on the moon too.

Remember also that messages have the ability to email those involved to give them a heads-up, whereas Whiteboards do not. Sometimes I will put something we need to collaborate on in a message for that very reason. Or I will put a link to the whiteboard in the message, so everyone gets notified when there’s collaborating to be done…