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The other notable "Google Docs/Office killer" is Quip. Previous HN discussion of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205855 https://news.ycombinator.co
by huac 10y ago
The other notable "Google Docs/Office killer" is Quip. Previous HN discussion of that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205855 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12205855
My gripe with these is that after using Word, these feel rigid and not full featured enough. And only with Google docs do you get what realtime collaboration should feel like.
- rrdharan 10y agoI have not used Quip. I used to work on Dropbox Paper, and I now work at Google (again) and use Google Docs for work documents (for obvious reasons) while I keep personal stuff in Paper. IMO Paper's realtime collaboration experience is superior to Google Docs. I'm curious to know if you've tried it and what you find better about Google Docs?
- huac 10y agoActually, I was thinking of Quip when I wrote that. Quip locks the entire paragraph that is being changed, so others cannot work on the same paragraph. This is less than ideal. I actually do think Dropbox Paper is pretty good for collab, so that wasn't initially fair. My favorite feature is seeing who contributed to which line of the document. I do find both Quip and Paper more suited to notes than documents, however. Writing a formal doc feels odd when your defaults aren't 12 pt Times New Roman, but maybe that won't be a consideration in five years. After all, there's some dissonance in saying "this is too pretty to use."