Reddit Comments on my implementation of Google Docs for note keeping and an Update

The post I made here on December 30th Notes Folder : My new note taking system I also posted about on Reddit in the Evernote subreddit. Many are posting there about their dismay with Evernote and where they are moving their notes too.

There were some constructive comments there I wanted to share.

User Regression4 had an idea on how to move Evernote notes to PDF using a third party :

Thanks for the post. I too moved to Google Drive. To get my Evernote data to Google Drive, I used a web service called CloudHQ. I connected Evernote and Google Drive. It copied each Evernote notebook to a folder in Google Drive. Each note became a PDF in Google Drive. Each PDF had metadata like created and modified date.

 

User Loopvariant was concerned Google's penchant for cancelling popular tools could lead to its demise.  While it is a concern, I believe since Drive & Doc and something Google sells to business customers it is less of a concern.   And there a ways to get your notes of Google to another product, like Microsoft 365 should it ever come to pass.


 User Devtastic made a good point about future proofing :

I would note that DOCX (not DOC) and PDF are both open formats so it is probably safe to assume that you will still be able to open Word documents and PDFs in 50 years time. Microsoft opened up DOCCX for that reason, some organizations were moving to other open document formats because they did not want to be tied in to using Word for archived documents for 50 years.


I've been working with Google App Script to make a capability where someone can email into Google Docs to store their notes. It is coming along, but still probably weeks from any form of public testing.  I do not have as much time to work on it as I'd like.

App Script is an amazing tool.  I already see how it might solve some other needs for this project.

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Note: I updated the original post with this information.


 

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