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Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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Post by capableweb »

throwawaaarrgh wrote: post #17

> Hermes uses Golang for the backend and Ember.js for the front end. It uses a PostgreSQL database for storage and Algolia to power its search capabilities. It also leverages several Google Workspace services for creating and modifying documents, sending email, etc. Great. 50 million incompatible parts combined with duct tape that is no better than Jira workflows with Google Docs, and less flexible. I can't wait to s…

> Hermes: An open-source document management system

> leverages several Google Workspace services for creating and modifying documents

Sooo, it's a UI over Google Workspace? Sounds a lot less interesting than I was lead to believe.

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Post by mattbee »

corytheboyd wrote: post #14

I don't know what it is about the name Hermes for software folk, it's apparently irresistible. I've heard the name used by three different companies for internal projects just in my own circle in the last year. This concludes my useless comment. This is just a joke, that you learn what Hermes means at one company and have to unlearn that when the next Hermes enters your life :p

To me it's the University of Cambridge's email server (RIP 1993-2021). I see a few alums keep use their hermes ID as they a username outside of Cambridge (like mjg59).

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Post by vajrabum »

corytheboyd wrote: post #14

I don't know what it is about the name Hermes for software folk, it's apparently irresistible. I've heard the name used by three different companies for internal projects just in my own circle in the last year. This concludes my useless comment. This is just a joke, that you learn what Hermes means at one company and have to unlearn that when the next Hermes enters your life :p

Hermes was among other things, the messenger of the gods in the Greek pantheon. I'd guess they were thinking of that as the context for the name. Of course, he also the psychopomp, the god who guided dead souls to the underworld. That might also be appropriate for documents many of which are dead from day 1.

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Post by odiroot »

corytheboyd wrote: post #14

I don't know what it is about the name Hermes for software folk, it's apparently irresistible. I've heard the name used by three different companies for internal projects just in my own circle in the last year. This concludes my useless comment. This is just a joke, that you learn what Hermes means at one company and have to unlearn that when the next Hermes enters your life :p

Having lived in Germany, and now in the UK, this name gives me shivers. Nothing is scarier than getting an email from Hermes: we got your package!

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Post by mrzool »

kkoncevicius wrote: post #20

Maybe a slow day for me, but from the homepage and video it isn't clear - does it do anything that cannot be achieved with plain Google Docs?

I'm also baffled by that after skimming the page and watching the demo video… seems like a Google Docs wrapper of some sort.

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Post by claytonjy »

Is it possible to write markdown in Google docs? This is what often pushed me back to Confluence for various docs, the markdown plugin works as expected, so I can write naturally or copy-paste from obsidian.

Markdown is so ubiquitous as a dev that I strongly resist writing anything else these days.

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Post by EvanAnderson »

satya71 wrote: post #10
croo wrote: post #2

I read through the project as I worked with several document storage solution before and still lookin for an ideal solution. Filenet is horribly overpriced from IBM, Alfresco looks nice but have serious performance issues (my experience is from 2020), SharePoint is only nice if everything is Microsoft... Apache Oak is an abandoned project with a lot of things that seems to be in it but didnt get finished (e.g. CMIS p…

There's also Mayan EDMS [1]. I have no experience with it, but looks sensible from the outside. [1] https://www.mayan-edms.com/

I stood up a demo of Mayan a year ago and played around with it. It was very nice. The Customer ended up going with a commercial offering so I didn’t spend any more time with it. For a small environment where someone could fill the Mayan subject matter expert role I think it would work well.

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Post by imran-iq »

kkoncevicius wrote: post #20

Maybe a slow day for me, but from the homepage and video it isn't clear - does it do anything that cannot be achieved with plain Google Docs?

It seems like it manages some metadata around google docs, but google docs is doing all the heavy lifting (creating/editing/sharing documents). Which begs the question, why?

By titling itself as a document management system I would assume it would be something like paperless-ngx[0] or mayan edms[1]. The latter of which has a built in workflow system[2].

But by being tied to google docs you can't really self host the important parts

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0: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

1: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms

2: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/workflows.html

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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Post by jmacd »

claytonjy wrote: post #26

Is it possible to write markdown in Google docs? This is what often pushed me back to Confluence for various docs, the markdown plugin works as expected, so I can write naturally or copy-paste from obsidian. Markdown is so ubiquitous as a dev that I strongly resist writing anything else these days.

Google Docs supports Markdown just enough to frustrate the life out of you.

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Post by sphars »

claytonjy wrote: post #26

Is it possible to write markdown in Google docs? This is what often pushed me back to Confluence for various docs, the markdown plugin works as expected, so I can write naturally or copy-paste from obsidian. Markdown is so ubiquitous as a dev that I strongly resist writing anything else these days.

Yes, Google added limited support for Markdown last year, though I'm not sure if it's rolled out to all accounts yet.

Support documentation: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en

Wired article going in a little more depth: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-markdown-google-docs/

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