Work & study
This is where we don’t just recommend alternatives, we provide them. Our Nextcloud and JupyterHub are community infrastructure: hosted in the EU, administered by students, answerable to you.
░░░ level 1 — an afternoon ▓░░ level 2 — a weekend ▓▓▓ level 3 — a project, do it with us
ditch: Google Drive, Docs
try: Nextcloud (ours!)
an afternoon
- gain
- File storage and sharing run by us, here at AUC.
- lose
- Less polish than Drive and limited storage.
ditch: Mendeley / EndNote
try: Zotero
an afternoon
- gain
- Free, open source reference manager the library also supports.
- lose
- Free sync storage is limited. Sync via WebDAV instead.
ditch: Microsoft Office
try: LibreOffice
a weekend of habit-changing
- gain
- Documents that stay yours, in open formats that will work in 20 years.
- lose
- No real-time collaboration. And no AI :( oh noo
ditch: Google Colab
try: Our JupyterHub
an afternoon
- gain
- Notebooks on hardware we run. No quota roulette, no account linking.
- lose
- No free GPUs; talk to us about heavier workloads.
ditch: Notion / Apple Notes
try: Joplin or Obsidian
a weekend
- gain
- Notes in plain text files you can sync via our Nextcloud.
- lose
- Databases and fancy collaboration views aren't as good.