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It seems like it manages some metadata around google docs, but google docs is doing all the heavy lifting (creating/editing/sharing documents). Which begs the q
by imran-iq 4y ago
It seems like it manages some metadata around google docs, but google docs is doing all the heavy lifting (creating/editing/sharing documents). Which begs the question, why?
By titling itself as a document management system I would assume it would be something like paperless-ngx[0] or mayan edms[1]. The latter of which has a built in workflow system[2].
But by being tied to google docs you can't really self host the important parts
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0: https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
1: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms
2: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/workflows.html https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/workflows.html
- PenguinCoder 4y agoUtterly misleading to call this self hosted document management then, and defeats the purpose. Here's a front end to Google docs you can host, but you still need access to the internet, Google docs, and Google sees all your docs anyways. No thanks.
- faitswulff 4y agoFull text search also provided by Algolia, so you’ll likely need an Algolia API key and account as well.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- DaiPlusPlus 4y agowat? ...what does Algolia do that Lucene can't?
- Aeolun 4y agoBe zero management? And multi region? Algolia is shockingly fast in any part of the world. That would probably not be true for your single region Lucene cluster. Also mildly irrelevant to a document management system, but meh.
- senectus1 4y agoI just put up a paperless-ngx system at home in docker. its amazingly simple and easy to use. It's rapidly becoming my fav self hosted service. Now you get my backlog of documents scanned and destroyed.
- whateveracct 4y agoI'm about to set it up myself (NixOS). I'm excited to scan and shred and forget.
- bobbylarrybobby 4y agoAs a somewhat heavy user of google drive, a better UI and organization system would be worth a boatload. Google docs makes it very easy to create decent docs. Good luck finding them a year later, though.
- rco8786 4y ago> Which begs the question, why? Google Docs are the books. Hermes is the library.