Collaboration tools

Microsoft Office on OneDrive

The probably most known collaboration tool out there is Word combined with OneDrive. In fact it's possible to do this with all Microsoft Office products. For all of those it's as simple as storing the Document, you are currently working on, on OneDrive.

For those who don't know OneDrive:
OneDrive is a cloud storage provider from Microsoft. It's part of Microsoft 365 Ecosystem and therefore plays very nice with all the Microsoft 365 Products like Word, Powerpoint and Excel.

Code With Me and Live Share

For programmers there are also two very common tools you can use to collaborate with your team in real time. On the one hand there is Code With Me developed by JetBrains: This tool is integrated in nearly all JetBrains IDEs. Code With Me relies on one collaborator to be a host and all other collaborators use their IDE to connect to the host. On the other hand there is Live Share: Similar to Code With Me this is a real time collaboration tool. It works in a similar way, but is only available for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.

Git

Git is another collaboration tool for programmers. It's probably the most common used collaboration tool in the world. Git is a very popular Version Control tool which offers many handy features like Branches, Commits and Merges. Moreover there are many custom implementations which offer even more features. A good example would be GitHub. It offers Issues, Forks and easy permission management.

Audio collaboration

In most cases only one collaboration tool isn't enough. Often you also need a way of communication for successful collaboration. There are many applications which offer exactly that. The most common one for personal use is Discord because it's very flexible, lightweight and offers many neat features. The majority of companies use Slack combined with a video conference software (e.g. Around, Zoom, Teams) for this purpose. This package offers similar features, but is far more optimized to meet the companies needs.