This is important both for exporting from Docs and to generate previews from odt documents in Drive.

Yet another proprietary document format is a complete non-starter for my team and our clients. I won't use and won't recommend Proton Drive as a replacement for Google or MS One drive for clients that want to use collaborative web editing.

Proton Docs should definitely use open document as default. Being able to export to other formats is a good feature but the default format is the most important thing. Using its own file format the same way Google does makes me chose Microsoft Onedrive instead. They let you chose default file format (Microsoft's or Open Document) when creating documents.

I use exclusively Linux for all my work and .ODT format is very important for me. Not being able to at the very least view the content with Proton Docs means I cannot use this feature.

I try to go away from the big tech and work under Linux. Not being able to open .odt documents in proton drive makes things unnecessarily complicated.
Please support open document formats

Proton docs should have the option to save files in .odt format. It doesn't make sense to save in .docx format and then have to convert it. I hope the .odt format becomes increasingly popular around the world, and Proton can't be left out. Attention, developers!

Proton uses the .protondoc format, you can convert a .docx file to the .odt file with a file converter.

Welp, this just broke my ability to migrate. I require .odt files specifically because my tech stack is open-source. I am coming from an extremely large google drive system in the midst of de-googling and proton's product has worked for literally everything else. This is the last thing for me to migrate - over 2.3 TB of data had to be moved and when I opened the proton drive that cloned google according to protons requirements.....none of the google docs had been transferred.

All because proton cannot accept .odt or other open source files so I will need to redo the transfer with a .pdf or .docx format instead and that's....infuriating. I'll probably just write a script to export the .pdf or .docx files outside of formats, but that makes most documents very difficult to work with in general now and a lot of data is in those Google Docs.

I guess I jumped the gun a little early. It's frustrating because this wasn't in my test case, but I suppose it's okay. I will spend some time

I agree with this. I'm not sure what format is used in Proton Docs, but there should definitely be increase adoption for ODT. Like @akilem, I'd like to see Markdown support, too.

It is for these reasons that I have not been using Proton Docs.

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.