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One specifically negative thing about gdocs ... well ... gsheets ... is that if you create a document with many (e.g. > 5 or so) charts on a single page ... it will slow waaaaaaayyyyy down. Multi second latency/response times for things like scrolling, cell interaction, etc. It becomes effectively unusable. Gdocs as a whole are ok, though you are giving Google the right to read your docs as I remember (in their terms…
For Google Docs-like tasks I prefer a combination of Org and git. Org is a powerful-but-easy-to-learn document structuring language. You ca write it in any editor, but in an Org-aware editor your document really comes alive. The oldest, most feature-complete implementation is in Emacs. Org documents can be exported to virtually any final format. I don't specifically recommend git so much as any distributed VCS, to sh…
Surprised noone has mentioned OnlyOffice here: https://www.onlyoffice.com/ . We use it via the integration I wrote for Alfresco: https://github.com/cetra3/onlyoffice-alfresco
Discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563009
You should ask reddit's /r/selfhosted. HN crowd is not much into self-hosting
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Have you considered G Suite? If you are going to stick with Google Docs, at least you can get a legal agreement that bars Google from mining or otherwise using your documents.
What legal agreement? It's not like they won't weasel out of it anyway. I'm fairly certain they were scanning emails for ad targeting up until the past year or so. GSuite is ok when it works most times, when it doesn't it's a nightmare. Google is literally the worst company I've ever done business with. In fact, over the past decade I've had to reach out to various support levels on different products and can say the…
Not a great source (it's a while ago), but I was at a talk from I think a Google AI researcher once (he might've been a VP). I remember him saying that Google hasn't actually been scanning emails for a long time now, because they're processing too many emails for even Google to parse. Too big data.
Honest question, can you just run simple symmetric encryption on your data before uploading to gapps?