We use Google Docs in my company for all of our documentation, notes, etc. I don’t hate it. It’s come a long way.

Personally, I’ve jumped around way too many note taking apps and I’m currently using Notion (until Anytype gets a little more mature).

Half the time, I start a note in my personal tool and then copy and paste it into a Google Doc so I can share and collaborate. I’m not going to get the entire organization to move over to whatever tool I want.

My biggest problem with Google Docs is that it’s organized into directories with the rest of GDrive. I really want to be able to organize it like notebooks in most note taking app. Where I can have a hierarchy and relationships. Notes on a project might be in a directory with 25 other files and I don’t want to see all of that. I spend a lot of time hunting for the note I need in the hundreds of Google Drive folders.

I messed around with Rainbdrop.io which is a bookmark manager and gets me close to what I want but it’s pretty slow. Anyone have any novel ways to organize Google Docs?

    • LumberjackedOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I have. And Joplin, Logseq, and many more. Doesn’t help me collaborate with Google Docs though.

      • stevedidWHATEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Right but google docs isn’t your organizational platform and neither will gdrive. Obsidian takes your notes in plain text and then you can store your notebooks (organized) on gdrive.

        Just an idea

        • LumberjackedOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Gotcha. I looked into that. Obsidian and Logseq store files as .md. Google Docs will not open those. Thanks for suggestion.

          • stevedidWHATEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            That’s really lame of them not to support a plain-text document - it’s equivalent to .txt. I’ll have to check this out for myself in a bit.

            Ultimately, and not trying to be snobbish here, google docs is controlled by a business whose model relies little on cross-compatibility and greatly on their existing size. Any note taking app which stores in .md should be storable anywhere and viewable anywhere anyhow because it’s plain text.

            Sorry you’re in such a pickle!

    • LumberjackedOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      That is very cool. The only problem is you have to open in a new window to edit. Will be very useful for creating a company knowledge base though!