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.
I appreciate everyone in this thread giving actually useful replies instead of pointing out that OP could have posted in a more suitable community.
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.
Collabora.
If you like compatibility with MS Office, Onlyoffice.
@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.deleted by creator
They are from mastodon, they cannot avoid that
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@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
I think Nextcloud has some collaborative office stuff
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
Etherpad is my personal recommendation.
@trippingonthewire There is also Hedgedoc hedgedoc.org/
Google Docs is really the best-in-class product in this space by a long shot. I haven’t heard of any good FOSS options and Word online is unstable and Microsoft which isn’t any better.
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
Obsidian is closed source.
Oh fuck, sorry, you’re right
Hedgedoc / codimd. Collaborative markdown.
Etherpad works, but it’s not markdown.
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
I think framasoft also has an option for a google docs alternative! They’re the folks who made peertube
Try Typst! It’s quite awesome! I wrote my thesis with it :)
What kind of formatting do you need? Something no too complex that is markdown-based would be enough?
