diff --git a/app/lib/deltas.coffee b/app/lib/deltas.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..abf3dddf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/lib/deltas.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+# path: an array of indexes to navigate into a JSON object
+# left: 
+
+module.exports.interpretDelta = (delta, path, left, schema) ->
+  # takes a single delta and converts into an object that can be
+  # easily formatted into something human readable.
+
+  betterDelta = { action:'???', delta: delta }
+
+  betterPath = []
+  parentLeft = left
+  parentSchema = schema
+  for key in path
+    # TODO: A smarter way of getting child schemas
+    childSchema = parentSchema?.items or parentSchema?.properties?[key] or {}
+    childLeft = parentLeft?[key]
+    betterKey = null
+    betterKey ?= childLeft.name or childLeft.id if childLeft
+    betterKey ?= "#{childSchema.title} ##{key+1}" if childSchema.title and _.isNumber(key)
+    betterKey ?= "#{childSchema.title}" if childSchema.title
+    betterKey ?= _.string.titleize key
+    betterPath.push betterKey
+    parentLeft = childLeft
+    parentSchema = childSchema
+    
+  betterDelta.path = betterPath.join(' :: ')
+  betterDelta.schema = childSchema
+  betterDelta.left = childLeft
+  betterDelta.right = jsondiffpatch.patch childLeft, delta
+  
+  if _.isArray(delta) and delta.length is 1
+    betterDelta.action = 'added'
+    betterDelta.newValue = delta[0]
+
+  if _.isArray(delta) and delta.length is 2
+    betterDelta.action = 'modified'
+    betterDelta.oldValue = delta[0]
+    betterDelta.newValue = delta[1]
+
+  if _.isArray(delta) and delta.length is 3 and delta[1] is 0 and delta[2] is 0
+    betterDelta.action = 'deleted'
+    betterDelta.oldValue = delta[0]
+
+  if _.isPlainObject(delta) and delta._t is 'a'
+    betterDelta.action = 'modified-array'
+
+  if _.isPlainObject(delta) and delta._t isnt 'a'
+    betterDelta.action = 'modified-object'
+
+  if _.isArray(delta) and delta.length is 3 and delta[1] is 0 and delta[2] is 3
+    betterDelta.action = 'moved-index'
+    betterDelta.destinationIndex = delta[1]
+
+  if _.isArray(delta) and delta.length is 3 and delta[1] is 0 and delta[2] is 2
+    betterDelta.action = 'text-diff'
+    betterDelta.unidiff = delta[0]
+    left = betterDelta.left.trim().split('\n')
+    right = betterDelta.right.trim().split('\n')
+    shifted = popped = false
+    while left.length > 5 and right.length > 5 and left[0] is right[0] and left[1] is right[1]
+      left.shift()
+      right.shift()
+      shifted = true
+    while left.length > 5 and right.length > 5 and left[left.length-1] is right[right.length-1] and left[left.length-2] is right[right.length-2]
+      left.pop()
+      right.pop()
+      popped = true
+    left.push('...') and right.push('...') if popped
+    left.unshift('...') and right.unshift('...') if shifted
+    betterDelta.trimmedLeft = left.join('\n')
+    betterDelta.trimmedRight = right.join('\n')
+
+
+  betterDelta
+  
+module.exports.flattenDelta = flattenDelta = (delta, path=null) ->
+  # takes a single delta and returns an array of deltas
+  
+  path ?= []
+  
+  return [{path:path, delta:delta}] if _.isArray delta
+  
+  results = []
+  affectingArray = delta._t is 'a'
+  for index, childDelta of delta
+    continue if index is '_t'
+    index = parseInt(index.replace('_', '')) if affectingArray
+    results = results.concat flattenDelta(childDelta, path.concat([index]))
+  results 
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/models/CocoModel.coffee b/app/models/CocoModel.coffee
index 862ba72fd..6edd0d634 100644
--- a/app/models/CocoModel.coffee
+++ b/app/models/CocoModel.coffee
@@ -215,6 +215,11 @@ class CocoModel extends Backbone.Model
           return true if permission.access in ['owner', 'write']
 
     return false
-
+    
+  getDelta: ->
+    jsd = jsondiffpatch.create({
+      objectHash: (obj) -> obj.name || obj.id || obj._id || JSON.stringify(_.keys(obj))
+    })
+    jsd.diff @_revertAttributes, @attributes
 
 module.exports = CocoModel
diff --git a/app/styles/editor/delta.sass b/app/styles/editor/delta.sass
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7c4cdd56
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/styles/editor/delta.sass
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+#delta-list-view
+  width: 600px
+  .panel-heading
+    font-size: 13px
+    padding: 4px
+  .row
+    padding: 5px 10px
+  
+  .delta-added
+    border-color: green
+    strong
+      color: green
+    .panel-heading
+      background-color: lighten(green, 70%)
+
+  .delta-modified
+    border-color: darkgoldenrod
+    strong
+      color: darkgoldenrod
+    .panel-heading
+      background-color: lighten(darkgoldenrod, 40%)
+      
+  .delta-text-diff
+    border-color: blue
+    strong
+      color: blue
+    .panel-heading
+      background-color: lighten(blue, 45%)
+
+  .delta-deleted
+    border-color: red
+    strong
+      color: red
+    .panel-heading
+      background-color: lighten(red, 42%)
diff --git a/app/templates/editor/delta.jade b/app/templates/editor/delta.jade
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..33b85ba15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/templates/editor/delta.jade
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+- var i = 0
+.panel-group#accordion
+  for delta in deltas
+    .delta.panel.panel-default(class='delta-'+delta.action)
+      .panel-heading
+        if delta.action === 'added'
+          strong(data-i18n="delta.added") Added
+        if delta.action === 'modified'
+          strong(data-i18n="delta.modified") Modified
+        if delta.action === 'deleted'
+          strong(data-i18n="delta.deleted") Deleted
+        if delta.action === 'moved-index'
+          strong(data-i18n="delta.modified_array") Moved Index
+        if delta.action === 'text-diff'
+          strong(data-i18n="delta.text_diff") Text Diff
+        span  
+        a(data-toggle="collapse" data-parent="#accordion" href="#collapse-"+i)
+          span= delta.path
+          
+      .panel-collapse.collapse(id="collapse-"+i)
+        .panel-body.row
+          if delta.action === 'added'
+            .new-value.col-md-12= delta.right
+          if delta.action === 'modified'
+            .old-value.col-md-6= delta.left
+            .new-value.col-md-6= delta.right
+          if delta.action === 'deleted'
+            .col-md-12
+              div.old-value= delta.left
+          if delta.action === 'text-diff'
+            .col-md-6
+              pre= delta.trimmedLeft
+            .col-md-6
+              pre= delta.trimmedRight
+    - i += 1
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/views/editor/delta.coffee b/app/views/editor/delta.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..46c637f36
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/views/editor/delta.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+CocoView = require 'views/kinds/CocoView'
+template = require 'templates/editor/delta'
+deltaLib = require 'lib/deltas'
+
+module.exports = class DeltaListView extends CocoView
+  id: "delta-list-view"
+  template: template
+
+  constructor: (options) ->
+    super(options)
+    @delta = options.delta
+    @schema = options.schema or {}
+    @left = options.left
+
+  getRenderData: ->
+    c = super()
+    deltas = deltaLib.flattenDelta @delta
+    deltas = (deltaLib.interpretDelta(d.delta, d.path, @left, @schema) for d in deltas)
+    c.deltas = deltas
+    @processedDeltas = deltas
+    c
+    
+  afterRender: ->
+    deltas = @$el.find('.delta')
+    for delta, i in deltas
+      deltaEl = $(delta)
+      deltaData = @processedDeltas[i]
+      console.log 'delta', deltaEl, deltaData
+      if _.isObject(deltaData.left) and leftEl = deltaEl.find('.old-value')
+        options =
+          data: deltaData.left
+          schema: deltaData.schema
+          readOnly: true
+        treema = TreemaNode.make(leftEl, options)
+        treema.build()
+
+      if _.isObject(deltaData.right) and rightEl = deltaEl.find('.old-value')
+        options =
+          data: deltaData.right
+          schema: deltaData.schema
+          readOnly: true
+        treema = TreemaNode.make(rightEl, options)
+        treema.build()
diff --git a/bower.json b/bower.json
index 0a6b42f4a..84e10d876 100644
--- a/bower.json
+++ b/bower.json
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@
     },
     "underscore.string": {
       "main": "lib/underscore.string.js"
+    },
+    "jsondiffpatch": {
+      "main": ["build/bundle-full.js", "build/formatters.js", "src/formatters/html.css"]
     }
   }
 }