#ellipsus-writes

[minerrvas]

for those getting their Google Docs work deleted and restricted

because Google are PIECES OF SHIT that i want to help people abandon!!!

go to google takeout

for export, select google drive (only, unless you also wanna export other stuff), which includes your whole google docs

for the export format, i recommend choosing .docx (fully editable, preserves formatting, smaller file size, easy to modify later, potential minor formatting shifts) or .pdf (exact visual preservation, universal compatibility, cannot be accidentally edited, professional look, not easily editable, larger file size, may lose some complex formatting)

go through all the required steps

i sent the export download link to my own email, it can take up to hours or days to arrive depending on export size (for me, it arrived within minutes)

once you've got your documents downloaded, you can upload them anywhere that's NOT FUCKING GOOGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (i recommend cryptpad or ellipsus by @ellipsus-writes, though i haven't tested whether either have an easy upload function for multiple documents)

[shealwaysreads]

So - how to add collaborators on ellipsus!

I’ve made a mock-up document and made screenshots of the process which I think make sense - I hope this helps! This is all on mobile, as I’m away from the laptop at the minute but it’s the same process on desktop - and it syncs so you can still access your docs and any collab edits while you’re out and about too (which is what has always kept me using gdocs but now I’m free!)

1) In your new doc, go to the menu in the top right.

2) Create a new draft - on ellipsus collaborators can only edit a draft version of the main document.

3) This is what your draft will look like once it’s made, click in.

4) Go to the menu on the top right again, and select ‘collaborators’.

5) You can invite by popping their email in - you can choose the level of access you grant.

6) You can also invite by generating an access link - again you can choose level of access.

7) To comment, go again to the top right menu and select comment - this is the instruction it’ll give.

8) This is what comments look like when they’re made - you can collapse this side bar if you’re working in the doc and don’t want distraction.

9) When you’re ready to check over your beta’s suggestions go again to the menu, select ‘compare changes’ and it will have the draft and the original doc side by side (you have to navigate between them on mobile, on desktop you see them next to each other).

10) Any beta edits will show as highlighted in green! You can leave the ones you accept, delete the ones you don’t, and once you’re done you click ‘merge’ at the top and it’ll update the main doc to add it all!

[dannybagpipesarecalling]

@ellipsus-writes

You are all doing such an amazing job with the website. Just got the update about pages and I'm so excited! That's something I've definitely missed.

Now I just continue to keep my fingers crossed that we will soon have a way to easily undo something (deleted a paragraph then realized I probably shouldn't have... it's just gone) Unless there already is and I just haven't found it yet!

I never thought I'd be turning to an online platform to write anything, because I am very stuck in my ways and prefer my off-brand word processing program most days. But lately I find myself turning to Ellipusus over and over and getting more comfortable using it. Thanks for all your hard work!

[saintwinther]

ellipsus added an on-doc sprint feature? 👀

[bzedan]

I tabbed over to the Ominous October week 2 story I haven't finished yet (which is fine) and I'm using @ellipsus-writes as my web doc program and there was this popup??!!

That is??? So cool?!

I've been loving Ellipsus as a web doc program, I'd stopped using Google Docs ages ago and am mostly fine with using local writing programs, but some things need to have easy ways to be shared (beta reading, docs that are just DVDs we need to buy, etc). Anyway, it's free, it's anti-AI, it apparently has easy-peasy AO3 posting support. Give Ellipsus a try!!