The Explore button within a Doc on the bottom right is the bomb!!! Brings up search on the sidebar of web pages and your own documents that have relevance and that you can click and add a footnote to the reference - love that feature!
I'd use a label and then select them all to export to the single Doc.ĭocs did add the cross-linking now between documents which was very handy. I found that very handy when I was capturing web data, using dictation and OCR in Keep. I like your workflow but wonder about trying to keep it in a general notebook page form and not broader named documents.Īnyway, you probably know all this already - with Keep you can combine your raw, independent, quickly captured notes into a single Google Doc that has an automated bolded title for each Keep note within the exported single Doc. My mind is more suited to physical objects than abstract things.Ī couple of thoughts since I came out of the Google Keep, Docs world not that long ago. I find that this stops me from getting too undefined and losing track of the document goal. I just use Google instead Paper because I have everything else in Google drive.Ī final thought, I try to imitate how physical notepads or documents work, by sequencially filling defined notepads, or by keeping tables in page format rather than a spreadsheet schedule (when this does not provide an advantage, which is more often than not). I also like small things like how in pageless view it creates some blank space at the bottom, unlike Evernote but I think it's less advanced than Dropbox Paper, which feels extremely comfortable to use due to things like: Floating format menu, automatic format reset after line break, better outline tool, see note list next to editor view, etc.
To be honest, this setup is a great feature that helps Google docs compete with Evernote or Dropbox Paper. Oh, and I mostly use the pageless setup because I generally don't need to format as pages. And I try to link these from my dashboard.
Which contains my currently open processes, with a few notes for quick reference, open processes of the colleagues whose tasks I need to oversee, and even some general quick reference notes and links (to timesheets, trackers, schedules, etc.)īesides these key items, I sometimes use additional docs when needed for trackers like 'decision record', 'long draft of x item', etc. Then, since I need something more structured, less messy (I can't be digging back on my notes for actions that need doing), I have a dashboard or tasks document. The above gives me sufficient flexibility to work as a note-taking inbox and to keep myself alive. I'll probably also file them away once the doc becomes too long, even though it's not a massive problem since I add every week to the top of the doc. Then, I have other docs that fulfill specific functions, such as a doc called 'Timesheets' where I just have a six column table for each week. This is basically the most solid part of my workflow, precisely because it is very flexible. It's basically like a traditional physical notepad, but on the cloud and I can copy/paste. Once the doc becomes too long, I file it away giving a seq number 'Work notepad 001, 002, etc'. I keep it pretty "informal", I use bold text for the title of the new note if needed, but don't always do it, use underline or colours for anything that needs highlighting, and copy/paste images all the time. One caveat though, every new note I start typing from the top, not the bottom of the document, so the most recent is at the top. This way, for example, I have a doc called something similar to 'Work notepad' which I keep open at all times and use for anything I need to write down, from random thoughts, to notes from a call note, a draft for a long email or message, or even meeting notes. Instead I just have one single doc representing the equivalent of what would be a notebook in Evernote. One thing I learned after some failed starts, is that I should not create a new doc for every new note, like you could do in Google Keep or even in Evernote. I use Google docs for general note taking, particularly for work, and I would like to share some notes on how I do it.