Advice for a collaborative text editor (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by ranzispa@mander.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I'm looking for a simple collaborative text editor. We do have an office 365 subscription and it works, but the 10 minutes loading time every time you open a document are taking a strain on my mental sanity.

We don't need nothing too fancy, markdown support would be a plus, especially with embedded latex formulas and possibly bibfile references.

The things I really need are a simple ways to add comments to text and a changes view to immediately see what a collaborator modified.

I've been taking a look at hackmd, it kind of fulfills the role, but the pricing is a bit high for the features available.

Could be self hosted too, but to be fair I'd rather not have to maintain it.

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[-] whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum 4 points 1 month ago

Nextcloud + collabora online works pretty good for me.

[-] modem_down@thebrainbin.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

For plain text & Markdown, you don’t even need Collabora. Since 2019, NextCloud has a built-in collaborative text editor.

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