[Nextcloud] Feedback re: collaborative document editing
I'm leaving some feedback regarding the collaborative document editing features in Nextcloud, specifically the OnlyOffice features.
I know that many of these things are not necessarily changes that can or will be made, but I want to be transparent about how this tool is working for me.
I can see that the Grants group will likely need to lean on other collaborative tools in order to work on projects that are large and complex (grant requests that are many pages long with multiple documents) for the following reasons:
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No ability to tag other accounts in comments that I can see or find. In my eyes, this is the biggest roadblock. Being able to work asynchronously on a document, tagging others in spots where their input is needed, knowing they will receive notifications, has been key to working across time zones with lots of people against deadlines.
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Speed. For me, OnlyOffice docs take 2-3 minutes to load per file. Working on one or two small documents, this is doable. For huge projects with multiple long/large documents, this may become difficult/impossible to manage.
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To finalize documents for printing or saving to PDF, I need to download and then edit again in Word because certain features are not available, the biggest being that the Tor Project’s fonts are not supported/available.
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No ability to do a word/character count that I can find. Critical for grants, most have word or character count requirements.
I'm happy to have a convo, test more things, be told that the features I want actually exist and I've missed them ;D!