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So many ways to collaborate without Google Docs, so little time to try them all!

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Day Seventeen of #cybercleanse -- take back your collaborative cloud storage and move your shared documents and projects elsewhere.

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in reply to Janet Vertesi

Strongly recommend Nextcloud.

If you don't want to roll your own server, there are hosting providers like librecloud.host that will do it for you, at a reasonable price.

The good thing about Nextcloud is that it's not just a file storage site, like OneDrive or Google Drive.

There's a host of free apps you can add to your Nextcloud for everything from cookbooks to photos (I recommend Memories) to addresses to calendars and to-do lists: apps.nextcloud.com/

You can even use it as a Matrix messaging client or a single-user Fediverse server if you so wish.

More importantly, it comes with Collabora Online (basically the cloud version of Libre Office), as well as file sync utilities for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

So if you sync your Documents folder, you can edit your document locally with Libre Office, have it sync to Nextcloud, and then share it with people from there over the web.