It's the Google Docs of LaTeX.
It's not strictly necessary (a shared Dropbox folder works for collaboration too), but it's a nice quality of life improvement.
Analogous to Dropbox vs Rsync. Sure you can use rsync, but Dropbox is just much easier.
It's not strictly necessary (a shared Dropbox folder works for collaboration too), but it's a nice quality of life improvement.
Analogous to Dropbox vs Rsync. Sure you can use rsync, but Dropbox is just much easier.
Google Docs lacks some bibliographic management to be a complete solution, an area where Word 365 is also a mess.
It's surprisingly hard to find a complete collaboration setup that also works for non-technical users.
When working on my own, AUCTeX + git are great.
If you have all the files you can recreate the documents with a local latex installation. Overleaf makes this easy, since you can sync it with github repos.
Good luck accessing/recreating a google docs document if google has an unexpected downtime or gets shut down eventually.