Yes, the moment I realized is not a real .docx file, it became useless. It's like creating a note, but not even this it's compatible with nothing.
The effort put on this ProtonDocs is useless for me... It will take long years to become a suitable office suite, and yet it will have to be compatible.

Proton already joined with StandardNotes, let it there the notes.

Integrate LibreOffice online (or OnlyOffice) and it will worth.

I think the same as you, Daniel. I agree with you as well, Akilem, altough I think they should make .odt the default format to export a lot of Proton Docs, but it would be even better if the user could choose to export as .odt or .md

We are currently unable to export more than 1 proton docs simultaneously, if you want .docx that is not even close of open source, you have to do it one by one, thats ridiculous.

Its quite simple. I am not migrating to use Proton Docs for any usecase unless open document format is supported.

open document format must be supported !

Markdown files will be easier to use and we could use Markdown editors like Obsidian

I agree that Docx is to be avoided and the open office format is the obvious choice.

Rather than creating another document type, I agree that an open standard like ODT would be the best option for your delvelopers to focus time on.

I'm worried that this will waste engineering time on interoperability with a format, instead of adding more features which is desperately needed. As long as you can export to a standard format and/or the format is documented somewhere it's fine.

Having a binary file format representation at all is a huge improvement compared to the horrible "link" solution to file representations of documents in competitor solutions.

protondoc-Files should be MarkDown-Text-Files. But Sync-Files have zero Bytes. There is a Bug, i think.

An open format document, like ODT, is a must in my opinion.

I'm in complete agreement that ODT would have made more sense. Given our storage is already encrypted, why do we also need an propietary file format that restricts useability?

The fact that the proritary format means that Drive for Desktop is completely devalued, as you still need to use the web interface shows me how badly this was thought out.

It should be a free doc format, like ODT. Microsoft proprietary (capitalist) craps are not standard: Microsoft wants people use only their software and formats and nothing else. If Proton fights for privacy, he must support free software and formats since without free software, free formats, and free hardware no privacy, digital freedom, and freedom.
Free software, free society (Subtitles: EN, HU, IT, ES...)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM

I whole heatedly support that statement.

I find it interesting that the only option when downloading the file from Drive is docx instead of an open file format. We should at least be able to change this to something open and portable like Markdown (which, from memory, Standard Notes note entries are built upon).

I want to move away from having dozens of Word documents, not more of them.

(To be fair, there are more file types available if downloading a document from within Docs instead of Drive.)

Basically, the proton docs created on the Proton Drive Web are attached to .protondoc format. This format is exclusive and does not open with Word, Libreoffice or anyhthing else.

I think it's urgent that we can change the standard format in a menu or even if we choose the format every time we create a new Proton Docs file.

The protondoc file format is a problem cause if the user wants to migrate a lot of files and/or folders, he will have a huge problem with those document files that only works in Proton ecosystem, I think it doesn't aligns to Proton's vision.