The plugin adds three buttons to the desktop Word toolbar:
- Go Mobile - the plugin scans the text to find editable sections and uploads the editable sections to the Play Write mobile application.
- Get Changes - the plugin processes the suggested edits that the user completed on their mobile device and uploads the changes to the desktop document.
- Clear Tasks - clears available tasks.

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- First, users create Play Write microtasks from an existing Microsoft Word document by clicking a specific button from a Word plugin.
- The button has the plugin extract text from the document that can be edited.
- An engine then looks through the extracted text to creator microtasks on how to improve that section, which then notifies the phone user that they have new tasks available.
- Based on feedback from the previous section’s study, Play Write exposes the following microtasks on the mobile app: fixing spelling errors, identifying wordy sentences, simplifying text by deleting words, accepting or rejecting changes, and addressing comments.

Additional Sections:
- Play Write Word Plugin
- Play Write Mobile Application

Play Write: The Play Write System

Iqbal, S. T., Teevan, J., Liebling, D., & Thompson, A. L. (2018) Multitasking with Play Write, a Mobile Microproductivity Writing Tool. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 411–422. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242611

Multitasking with Play Write, a mobile microproductivity writing tool

Play Write: Play Write Word Plugin

- The Play Write app is the core of the microtasking experience.
- The server pushes notifications to the app to alert the user when new tasks become available.

Additional Sections:
- Play Write Editing Home Screen 
- Play Write Editing Tasks

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