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  • geolaw@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Is there an alternative to google office? Something that has email and storage space and shared spreadsheets and shared documents?

    • Juice [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      You'd have to stand up your own Instance, but nextcloud should have most of what you need

    • Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Could you explain the collaborative work you do with Google Office? Does it have to use office file formats? Is it required to be web-based and accessible via a browser?

      Could something like Obsidian.md work (with some live sync related plugin), where you write in markdown for various note-taking and documentation formats? Obsidian is proprietary, and I haven't used it myself, but I heard good things about it. It's also possible to configure vim and emacs with plugins to provide the same functionality as Obsidian.

      I personally want to learn LaTeX for my office needs, and I believe there's ways to do live collaboration with various tools, but LaTeX is a rabbit hole and much more difficult to learn.

      The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Plain Text

      • geolaw@lemmygrad.ml
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        1 year ago

        Collaborating with a small group of family and friends where we can use a shared spreadsheet to plan a camping trip for example

        • Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Could LibreOffice work? It seems it's possible to share spreadsheets through the Calc application:

          https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/shared_spreadsheet.html

          It seems to be compatible with other applications, such as mobile Collabora Office:

          https://help.collaboraoffice.com/latest/en-US/text/scalc/01/shared_spreadsheet.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id671647274159909

          From what I read, NextCloud's office suite is based on LibreOffice/Collabora Office, so @Juice@hexbear.net's suggestion is probably your best solution if you can setup a server to share with your family and friends.