Any good alternatives to google Drive and Docs?

[Riftrunner]

Necroing but does anyone have a good way to do collaborative documents like Google Docs without using Google Docs?

Does it need to be real-time? Like to the extent you can see the other user's cursor and make edits within seconds of each other? If not, you could use git as Jones McCann suggested or Nextcloud with the sync client if it has to be more user friendly.

With Nextcloud syncing you can use whatever document authoring program you wish, though there's the potential for file conflicts if multiple users have editors open at once. Git is good at dealing with conflicts but that's only if people use their own branches and merge changes in once ready.

Nextcloud also has a built in document editor supporting Markdown which is designed for collaborative editing https://github.com/nextcloud/text

Is the desire to move away from Google Docs due to privacy issues or do you just hate the UX? If you're ok with your privacy still being invaded, you can do this kind of collaborative editing with the cloud version of Microsoft Word.

 

[Sperg_rancher]

does anyone have a good way to do collaborative documents like Google Docs without using Google Docs?

For code there's IntelliJ's Code With Me. works well enough IMO.

 

[Caesar]

I like Obsidian for markdown or if I must, OpenOffice, with Syncthing. There's also more drive-and-doc like options in nextcloud.

 

[byron]

Just use git

Honestly, not a bad idea. You can host a local copy of gitlab, and use its built-in web IDE.

I would recommend putting it on a private network and accessing it via VPN though.