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Hermes: An open-source document management system

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Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#101
The problem with versioning & management systems for docs is that you need the process to drive the adoption. Getting people to version, approve, and fully manage a document database is the hard part. Many companies do not even adequately document - they just send information in a Slack/Teams message and nothing is written down for later (this is why startups like Glean exist: https://www.glean.com/). There are massive companies that exist without this organization layer and just whip up Notion/365/Office docs with the expectation the documentation will get lost and become irrelevant very soon (even if a search feature existed).

The point I'm (badly) trying to make it is that my intuition tells me very few companies will actually pick up and adopt software like this. If they do, there might be many nuances in their process and they might find the versioning easier to do with simple duplicate Notion/Office/GDocs parent templates.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#103
How are comments handled with Hermes? I've been impressed again and again how useful Github is for community RFCs.

I wonder why Hermes doesn't handle files by itself instead (or in addition) of relying on Google?

Algolia search is a tough decision, because it means instant "no go" for projects with confidential data.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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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?

I looked but probably not hard enough.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#106

Is Google Docs good for code blocks with syntax highlighting?

There is a plugin with auto syntax highligting, its a but clunky to use, but it woeks okay https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/code_blocks/100...

Thanks!

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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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…

I just put up a paperless-ngx system at home in docker. its amazingly simple and easy to use. It's rapidly becoming my fav self hosted service. Now you get my backlog of documents scanned and destroyed.

I'm about to set it up myself (NixOS). I'm excited to scan and shred and forget.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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The hardest part of documents within a business is not producing documents but rather creating a useful library. Google Docs is a place where great documents go to die. Notion’s success (for example) is more about it making it possible to create a useable library of documents than it is about being an editor with neat widgets. I don’t know if Hermes is going to be particularly successful given it’s competing with thi…

I have lost count the number of times I’ve searched for a doc in Google drive and found nothing. It’s shockingly bad given that Google literally is a SEARCH company.

Google was a search company. Now it is an advertising company.

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

#109

The single, killer feature I'm looking for in a document management system (besides collaborative environment that we're used to from gdocs) is a way to stamp versions and have those be reviewed independently, with git like diffs across them. Think gerrit for docs.

One product I have come across that seems to do this well is Simul https://www.simuldocs.com/

Re: Hermes: An open-source document management system

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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…

https://www.netdocuments.com ?

I might be showing my age or bias, but that domain fires red-flags in my brain. Like freedownloadmanager.com kind of naming (ironically, FDM was a really good program back in the day).
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