a doc about a car purchase can go both in a home expenses folder and a ToDo folder for scheduling an oil change. Shift Z to create a file shortcut and use to make a file appear to be in more than one folder. Now search Drive for one or more tags - this is faster and more reliable than keyword searches.ĭrive Shortcuts. Organize note subjects with tagging: open the Outline panel and add a list of comma separated tags to the Document Summary e.g. This removes margins and page breaks so the document is more like a blank canvas than a traditional printable page.
Pageless mode (under File / Page Setup) by default. If I wasn't using other Google products, OneNote would be my preference, but it now makes no sense for me to use OneNote and Google Docs for different things.ĭocs isn't obvious choice as a note-taking app but some features added to Google Drive in the last year are helpful: Gmail accounts are almost ubiquitous in my world which makes it easier to share outside the organization. Sharing, commenting, editing, suggesting is just easier, particularly in my mostly-remote working situation. Most notably, Google is just way ahead of Microsoft in collaboration. It's not better than OneNote for many of these purposes, but almost as good and way better at a few other things. Note taking in meetings and other contextsĬapturing tasks and integrating those tasks with my task manager I found this article helpful during my transition - įor my uses, Google Docs now fits most of my uses for OneNote. Years ago, I started with OneNote when in a Microsoft shop, moved to Evernote for integrations and have been forced to use Google Docs now in a Google shop. I think Google Docs is worthy of consideration depending on your priorities and workflow. What else might I miss? I might not miss some OneNote things that I never use like web clipper. Now that Docs has been updated with real Checkboxes and the commands, it might serve me better than OneNote and has me very curious. The ability to search the content of all notes and once I select that note, it will show me where in the note my search was found specifically.īeing able to view my folders and nesting while editing a note on desktopĮncrypt a folder in case it is something I don't want a company to potentially scan in data mining (does Google scan the content of Docs etc? How can I confirm?)ĭocking a window feature in OneNote to take notes while watching something on the same screen A few things I think I would miss from the actual "note taking app" experience of OneNote would be I am wondering if I would like to switch to Docs for larger notes and Keep for smaller notes. Google Drive & Docs feels like such a finished product compared to OneNote on all platforms.
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