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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 9 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.