Honestly I hate online office tools. They encourage a collaboration model that just doesn't work for me _at all_ - and yet is, by now, _the standard_.
I'd much rather send documents back and forth, with comments I integrate with the material. If I _need_ to do something live, plain text is actually not just perfectly sufficient - it's either _exactly_ what I want, or what I want is a white board (and therefore please let's just use self-hosted Excalidraw - but remember to sponsor it if you're commercial!).
But outside of very rare occasions, let's just set up a plain old mailing list, write proposals in basic text, and then once we have something complete, let one person integrate the whole thing into a single pretty document with like LaTeX or Markdown or something. Or even Word, I don't really care.
And yes, that's hostile to brainstorming. Good. I too am hostile to brainstorming.
I'd much rather send documents back and forth, with comments I integrate with the material. If I _need_ to do something live, plain text is actually not just perfectly sufficient - it's either _exactly_ what I want, or what I want is a white board (and therefore please let's just use self-hosted Excalidraw - but remember to sponsor it if you're commercial!).
But outside of very rare occasions, let's just set up a plain old mailing list, write proposals in basic text, and then once we have something complete, let one person integrate the whole thing into a single pretty document with like LaTeX or Markdown or something. Or even Word, I don't really care.
And yes, that's hostile to brainstorming. Good. I too am hostile to brainstorming.