A non-transitory machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by a processor of a system, direct the system to:
- provide a user interface including an element for requesting a creation of a shared document in a folder shared among collaborators in a cloud-based collaboration platform,
- wherein the shared document is concurrently accessible to the collaborators in real time via their respective physical devices;
- detect an action to create the shared document for a concurrent access;
- in response to the detection,
- generate the shared document, and
- present the shared document to each of the collaborators for accessing in real time,
- wherein the presentation of the shared document includes a content portion and a margin portion adjacent to the content portion;
- wherein each of the collaborators is able to view, edit, and modify the shared document concurrently using the collaborator's respective physical device, and
- wherein edits or modifications made to the content portion of the shared document by a particular collaborator are accessible to other collaborators at their respective physical devices in real time, and
- mark a current position of editing the content portion of the shared document by each of the collaborators,
- wherein the current position marking identifies each of the collaborators with a photo enclosed in a frame of a color associated with each of the collaborators;
- wherein the markings for each of the collaborators are presented in the margin portion of the shared document and aligned with their respective current positions of editing the content portion of the shared document, so as not to obstruct the presentation of the content portion of the shared document to other collaborators;
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- wherein if two or more collaborators are editing a same line or paragraph in the content portion of the shared document, their respective markings are presented next to each other in the margin portion;
- identify an active editing in the content portion of the shared document by the particular collaborator at the particular collaborator's current position, and
- responsive to identifying the active editing by the particular collaborator, modify the particular collaborator's current position marking such that the marking identifies the particular collaborator with a string including the collaborator's name in addition to the photo enclosed in the frame of the color associated with the particular collaborator and such that the photo is repeatedly flashed while the particular collaborator is actively editing.