So this is basically like building Box for G Suite?
Hermes: An open-source document management system
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Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#82Maybe 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…
As a somewhat heavy user of google drive, a better UI and organization system would be worth a boatload. Google docs makes it very easy to create decent docs. Good luck finding them a year later, though.
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Full text search also provided by Algolia, so you’ll likely need an Algolia API key and account as well.
wat? ...what does Algolia do that Lucene can't?
Be zero management? And multi region?
Algolia is shockingly fast in any part of the world. That would probably not be true for your single region Lucene cluster.
Also mildly irrelevant to a document management system, but meh.
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#84Alfresco was supposed to be the OSS alternative to documentum/stellent/etc closed source systems. It was basically a freemium model, which means that a complete OSS solution is out of reach. This basically looks like the same thing. I guess Hashicorp is slightly better at OSS, but... I dunno. A DMS needs: 1) storage (duh) 2) metadata 3) permissions enforcement 4) search / indexing 5) rendering to pdf and pdf signing…
> Honestly I don't understand why a consortium of governments and businesses with high regulatory requirements don't simply get together and develop a common platform for this.
This is a great recipe for billions expended on a system that should cost a few million at most.
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#85I 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
Take any random Greek deity and search GitHub for it, you'll find tons of projects for each one, guaranteed. It's just a common source of naming for developers (how that relates to god-complex being common with developers, is left as an exercise to the reader).
After all, those gods don’t have any more followers to complain about you using their name in vain.
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#86I never this is a thing.
Our go to solution for this usually a kanban board in jira and confluence for the doc.
Honestly would like to know what do I miss with this approach?
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#87Full Text Search in Google Docs is a single reason enough for me to try this product. If they create document collections that can be hierarchically ordered, I will ditch Confluence and its million variations in a split second.
We hate Google drive’s search. Feel like there’s a product idea there?
Have you tried cloudsearch.google.com. It's only available for work accounts.
I believe the way it works is, if a document is configured as "searchable" in its permissions or if you opened a document even once, it will show up in Cloudsearch afterward. Assuming access permissions remain.
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
We hate Google drive’s search. Feel like there’s a product idea there?
Oh absolutely, anybody who implements a nice wrapper on google drive with FTS and tagging and hierarchical ordering will be something I will strongly support my org to buy
Looked to see if something like this exists?
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#89I think this tool would be perfect if it allowed managing a self-hosted markdown filebase. Hopefully one day :fingerscrossed:
Have a look at Craft which is sort of block-based Markdown for people that don't know what Markdown is.
Or like Obsidian for business people.
Or Notion but can (optionally) work offline.
https://www.craft.do/solutions/businesses
Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system
#90I think this tool would be perfect if it allowed managing a self-hosted markdown filebase. Hopefully one day :fingerscrossed:
That seems something in the ballpark of my favorite wiki software: https://github.com/gollum/gollum Edit and view pages as a normal markdown wiki. But the backend is just a git repository of markdown files so you can also just use your text editor and git pull/push. Usable by any novice but with the ideal power user interface.
Used Gollum before Jekyll, Hugo, Ghost, the whole JAMStack thing took off.
Super handy for devs who both dev and wiki doc.