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submitted 13 hours ago by French75@slrpnk.net to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

Hey all, I'm searching for something self hosted that lets me access, read, and edit .md and spreadsheets. I don't need functionality for presentations, word docs, or photos; really just spreadsheets and markdown, and a good mobile experience.

Opencloud is fast, simple, lightweight, and works great for multi-user editing, but Collabora is just so-so on desktop and borderline unsuable on mobile. Also, the build in split-view markdown editor is effectively unusable on mobile. Nextcloud has more features, but I mostly don't use them. It's markdown editor is better, but it has the same Collabora problem. I'm probably about 50% desktop and 50% mobile use.

Any recommendations?

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[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 hours ago

Markor https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.gsantner.markor is great for markdown editing on Android, it wouldn't be as smooth but perhaps it could be used with Syncthing.

[-] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I use Markor on android and syncthing, it's a pretty good experience.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 6 hours ago
[-] mhzawadi@lemmy.horwood.cloud 3 points 9 hours ago

This has been asked before, the answer is don't use mobile to edit spreadsheets

[-] WuxinGoat@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

This was my conclusion too.

[-] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago
[-] French75@slrpnk.net 3 points 10 hours ago

Haven't tried it. Is it better in this regard?

[-] sandwichsaregood@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I like it a lot more UI wise. It feels like the modern MS Office if the ribbon UI wasn't awful and busy. Compatibility is extremely good as well. Has Nextcloud/standalone web version, desktop versions, phone versions. I haven't used the phone app that much, but it seems good from what I have used.

Edit: I don't know how well it handles Markdown, however.

[-] undrwater@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

Have you tried the collabora app for mobile?

I think Joplin has a spreadsheet plug-in.

[-] French75@slrpnk.net 2 points 10 hours ago

Yeah. That's what opencloud uses. Their app does a handoff to Collabora.

Ill have a look at Joplin. Thanks.

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