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Are there any good alternatives to Gmail? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by KrupskayaPraxis@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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I'm trying to degoogle and figured that email is the next step

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[–] geolaw@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Juice@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Imnecomrade@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] geolaw@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.