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Well, I guess I need to move all my documents out of Google Docs. Suggestions for alternatives?

• confounded 9y ago
  The Drive API allows you to export to docx, which can be converted to markdown (or whatever) via Pandoc. This works surprisingly well for me. For web-based collaboration, you could self host something like Etherpad (there are a few alternatives).
  • LeoNatan25 9y ago
    Actual desktop Office and an encrypted blob on OneDrive or Dropbox.
• soared 9y ago
  Why?
  • oblib 9y ago
    In order to "flag" a document they must be scanning it and running it through an interpreter that looks for keywords and phrases. The users experience with their documents being flagged makes it obvious that Google is scanning every document you create/store there, so the curious mind might ask "why?". Now, we can all try to believe that Google wouldn't steal from us, or turn us in to government authorities if they saw something that they believed was "unpatriotic", but what if we found out they're getting paid to do that by governments all over the world, or what if you saw some amazing new tech you've been working on suddenly appear from Google? Could be they're "doing no harm" to anyone, but it might be naive to believe it. Google is in the business of making money. That is what they do.