Unleash Your Potential, Working with Powerful Features.

Story and Content First.

Livingdocs has been developed with the main focus on allowing an editor to create content from within the article view. No need for tab hopping or switching to other programs - just undisturbed creation.

Style and edit your content directly in-line while seeing the results

Build your pages and articles from a large set of elements via drag and drop

Link to internal and external content with two clicks

Access and browse assets such as images and video directly while writing

Crop and resize images as you like or work with predefined aspect ratios for a consistent design

Manage poster image including frame selection for videos

Test your content for different devices (incl. print) via the preview feature

Embed Tweets, videos, Instagram posts and more easily inline and arrange them on your documents

Configure your desired metadata for search engine optimization

Create, edit and preview teasers for your content for internal or external use (i.e. Social Media)

Schedule content publication dates as well as automation rules to manage your page

Our headless approach allows you to define every possible combination of structured data, stand-alone or assigned to documents.

Collaboration at the Core.

Livingdocs makes collaboration easy with Google Docs-like comments, real-time collaboration, track changes and more. So that you as a team can work together seamlessly from anywhere.

Create and edit content on the go on your mobile phone or tablet

Always see who is writing with and editing the same document as you just like Google Docs

Easily cover events with live-blogging

Discuss with fellow editors how to best come up with the content you need, write comments, build discussion threads and resolve conversations as you go

The lock plugin allows you to set time-limited locks on a document where only you can edit

Visually keep track of every change in your documents and easily go back and forth in your editing history

Organize workflows from proofreading to translations in kanban boards and always see what needs to be done next

All our Features

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  Editing

  Intuitively create elaborated content in a disturbance-free environment, yet with access to all the relevant functions and assets.

  

  1. Advanced inline editing with WYSIWYG functionality

  2. Component-based content creation

  3. Creation and editing of content via mobile phone or tablet

  4. Freely configurable formatting (bold, etc.)

  5. Quick and easy hyperlinking

  6. Image editing (cropping, resizing, predefined ratios)

  7. Video management

  8. Preview function for all devices and sizes in real-time

  9. Real-time collaboration (like Google Docs)

  10. Lock functionality (for use cases like proofreading)

  11. Comments and discussion threads

  12. Track changes and history

  13. Undo / Redo and restore function via history

  14. Configurable character count

  15. Spell checking (also external service integrable)

  16. Configurable tasks and workflows

  17. Creation of image and video galleries

  18. Integration of external content (Twitter, Youtube, Instagram etc.)

  19. Cross-linking (incl. internal links via Link Tool)

  20. Configurable Metadata, i.e. for Search Engine Optimization

  21. Teaser creation, editing and preview

  22. Scheduling and creation of rules for publishing content

  23. Compiling of push notifications (via Airship, Google Firebase, Urban Airship and E-thinking)

  24. Clipboard functionality to copy components (also from article to article)

  25. Copying and transforming of articles

  26. Defining of positioning rules (e.g.. pinning of article header)

  27. Configurable character limitation for text components

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  Page Management

  Effortlessly layout your pages with drag and drop.

  

  1. Management of manual lists

  2. Management of automated lists with configurable automation rules

  3. Teaser Elements (galleries, articles, videos, etc.)

  4. Menu tool to build site navigations using drag and drop

  5. Multi-language support to offer content in multiple languages

  6. Translation workflows to make translations efficient and fast

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  Asset Management

  Livingdocs contains a full DAM allowing you to stay in control of your assets (images and video).

  

  1. References of pictures visible in article view

  2. Configurable metadata

  3. IPTC/Exif extraction

  4. Transfer of caption, source and alt text on drop of pictures into article

  5. Assessing of copyright validity ranges and visibility of status of copyright with an icon in article view

  6. Crop options based on named crops (e.g. A4, A5, Letter, Legal)

  7. Bulk upload support, incl. editing of metadata for multiple pictures at once

  8. Connection to external image databases

  9. Image auto tagging and recommendations via Google Vision plug-in

  10. Natural Language Processing module to automatically tag all articles & pages

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  Research

  Use the power of customizable dashboards and present content on your dashboards in lists, visual layouts or kanban boards.

  

  1. Configurable dashboards (lists or kanban style)

  2. Configurable entry page

  3. Configurable filters per dashboard (i.e. time, category, etc.)

  4. Powerful ElasticSearch based search engine to find content

  5. Configurable view of search results

  6. Creation of bookmarks (quick filters) for filter combinations for faster access

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  Backend Features

  Livingdocs is a headless CMS allowing you to define every possible combination of structured data, stand-alone or assigned to documents.

  

  1. Management of structured data (e.g. authors, products, etc.)

  2. Access and group management to define access rights for your user groups

  3. User management to define roles easily and manage users through our powerful administration backend

  4. Management of multiple publications and channels from one place

  5. UI-based project setup, i.e. full configurability of metadata

  6. Management of API tokens

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  Scalability

  Livingdocs was built to scale from day one.

  

  1. Cloud-Ready: Runs on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, on Kubernetes or just Docker On-Premise

  2. Can be run in high availability setups across multiple data centers

  3. Can be set up with different security zones for Internal and public APIs

  4. Provider-Agnostic Asset Storage for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and others

  5. Offers Metrics, Logging and Tracing Support

  6. We can support you with our Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible toolkit for high availability setups.

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  Open-Source Tooling

  Building an eco-system around a headless CMS can be daunting.

  

  1. Boilerplate for a simple gatsby-magazine example suited for smaller use-cases such as blogs or small magazines

  2. Boilerplate for a magazine-example suited for medium-large use-cases

  3. Example «best-practice» project configurations to quickly get started with all the available features enabled

  4. Deployment scripts to help maintaining Livingdocs

  5. Software Development Kit (Livingdocs SDK)

  6. CLI to sync project configurations, add new components and more

  7. VG-Wort integration

  8. DPA Import Boilerplate

  9. WoodWing Studio Exporter