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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 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

1: https://gitlab.com/mayan-edms/mayan-edms

2: https://docs.mayan-edms.com/chapters/workflows.html




Utterly 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.


Full text search also provided by Algolia, so you’ll likely need an Algolia API key and account as well.


wat? ...what does Algolia do that Lucene can't?


Be 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.


As 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.


I 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.


I'm about to set it up myself (NixOS). I'm excited to scan and shred and forget.


> Which begs the question, why?

Google Docs are the books. Hermes is the library.




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