Please Don't try to be Google
This new push of Proton Docs and Sheets and the overall concept of having to login to a website to use software as a service has me all skittish about vendor lock-in. I don't want SAAS, don't want proprietary file formats and don't want web/browser based anything. I want to get my head out of the cloud. Instead using locally installed software, maybe from you all, maybe of my own choosing and a secure cloud as a transport, sync and secondary/remote storage tool. Besides retrieving emails or products that directly relate to internet usage, e.g. Authenticator, I want to be fully functional without internet and then not have to do anything when internet is restored and sync resumes. Basically to setup programs on my computer then configure them with my credentials and never have to log in to Proton's website unless I need to do something account management related. Anyhow, that's my two cents
Tony the Geek
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This is not a feature request.
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Tony the Geek
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This is a feature request. To distill the request, please have full versioned, fully functional (including anything you can do in the online version: full parity) locally installable programs for all products or that includes multiple products (Mail app that has Drive, Meet and Calendar preferably that all saves to one local file like Outlook PST accomplishes) that is completely usable when offline and will resume any queued emails in outbox or shared files or updated events, etc. once internet service resumes. Not everyone has persistent internet due to things like geographical location or security protocols. Additionally, should be able to configure Drive to be utilised in the programs of choice like one can use NextCloud as a storage/sync option in OnlyOffice for instance and file format portability so whatever is created by users in Proton's native apps can be opened or exported to similar programs of choice.