Google competition

colak · Yesterday 05:53:33

Just came across this open source project which I hope that it will, at some time, become a viable alternative to google docs and google sheets.
github.com/fileverse
fileverse.io/

bici · Yesterday 15:42:26

colak wrote #343422:

Just came across this open source project which I hope that it will, at some time, become a viable alternative to google docs and google sheets.
github.com/fileverse
fileverse.io/

Looks promising. Nonetheless less this leaves me cold:

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colak · Yesterday 16:44:32

bici wrote #343423:

Looks promising. Nonetheless less this leaves me cold:

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Indeed, but social media are currently the only place where you can let people know of your project. Mastodon is unfortunately not a viable alternative because they do not have an algorithm that encourages engagement.

jakob · Today 08:56:21

Nice tip. I’ve got to say, it has a very attractive minimalist UI and nice editing tools (and a vaguely txp-ish yellow as brand colour). Not sure how it handles more complex documents as it seems to import but not (currently) save docx files (some support for odt is there). I know about Collabora and Euro Office, both of which – for better or for worse – have a more Word-like interface.

As an alternative to Google Sheets, it looks like it’s worth a try.

Bloke · Today 09:17:30

The UI seems clean. I had a cursory glance at the Docs offering and liked it. I’ll stress test it with some existing docs another time.

I’d need to poke around at the spreadsheet with some complex formula-laden sheets, because there’s a lot that Excel can do that the knock-offs struggle with.

Great tip, though, thank you. Hadn’t heard of it so it’s fab to know other options exist for collaboration.

Vienuolis · Today 10:39:11

I keep wondering why no one has yet created a standalone text editor in Textile format. For now, I am using Zim (wiki) and Treeline (HTML) as note-taking apps (PIM), as well as Text (Markdown) in Nextcloud, although Textile would be cleaner, lighter, and could replace those huge, non-transparent, non-textual .docx and .odt formats.

jakob · Today 12:29:11

Yes, a textile editor would be nice. Some code editors support the syntax, at least. fileverse appears to use markdown as standard, and will export to other formats including html, pdf and odt (sans images).

Textpattern CMS

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