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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 3 days ago by tfm@piefed.europe.pub to c/fuck_bigtech@europe.pub

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Reminder: LibreOffice is a more than viable alternative.

Or even better, stop doing paper format documents on your computer. It creates data silos and often isn't really accessible either. Who (except maybe governments) does still print stuff?

Organize your data relational. Tools like NocoDB or Baserow let you do this pretty easily and in a privacy friendly manner (self hosted).

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[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

The key attribute of a word processor isn’t that “it prints”, it’s that it styles and lays out written material with tooling/structure features across the range of users - from “click B for bold” to “Fortune 500 annual report” or “Doctoral Dissertation”.

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah it does everything... but almost nothing well.

We can have different opinions here, but I find "documentization" of data in this day and age not appropriate anymore.

[–] aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

oh, there are certainly better fits than Word and it’s clones for different tasks.

but let’s say you need to write a 50 to 100 page narrative document structured into chapters/sections, with illustrations. Curious about your approach to that

EDIT: lets also say you’re not in CS or academia and emacs/TeX are out.

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 3 days ago

Markdown. Obsidian, Logseq, or even Notion or Coda.

Markdown is plain and easily parsable by pretty much anything.