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FOSS online equivalent to Google Docs? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi everyone. Me and a friend wanted to work on an online document together yet didn't want to use Google Docs. Are there services that allow us to work together? Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago

Cryptpad.fr

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate everyone in this thread giving actually useful replies instead of pointing out that OP could have posted in a more suitable community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, I guess I could've, but I was looking for something to use on Android. I could've emphasized on that better, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Collabora.

If you like compatibility with MS Office, Onlyoffice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@trippingonthewire
Nextcloud and Collabora in combination. If you dont want to host your own nextcloud, there are providers offering a hosted nextcloud with collabora. editing spreadsheets from a mobile device (tablet, smartphone) does not work very smoothly, the rest is great, also collaborative file editing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

@vanilla_thunder @trippingonthewire Nextcloud with their own Text editior works very well on mobiles as long as you only edit text documents with standard formatting, images etc

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think Nextcloud has some collaborative office stuff

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Yes it does, but it is not part of nextcloud itself, they require you to host a collabora CODE server. It works quite well but it's a bit of a hassle to set up

https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Etherpad is my personal recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

https://etherpad.org/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

@trippingonthewire There is also Hedgedoc hedgedoc.org/

[–] AdmiralShat 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My friends and I use Obsidian and Syncthing. It's a bit tricky if you try to edit simultaneously but it works if you edit at different times.

Edit: not foss

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Obsidian is closed source.

[–] AdmiralShat 1 points 8 months ago

Oh fuck, sorry, you're right

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I think framasoft also has an option for a google docs alternative! They're the folks who made peertube

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Infomaniak kdrive is open source*

= it's using onlyoffice web version + their desktop clients and mobile clients, which is AGPL 3 but it's not really a community effort like LibreOffice, rather a commercial product

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

What kind of formatting do you need? Something no too complex that is markdown-based would be enough?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Try Typst! It's quite awesome! I wrote my thesis with it :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Hedgedoc / codimd. Collaborative markdown.

Etherpad works, but it's not markdown.