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No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by jehb »

KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #61
coldtea wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Agree completely with the first paragraph and disagree completely with the second paragraph. There are lots of us who use Google drive at work that love md. That's not incompatible with the demographic being vanishingly small and not who Drive is targeting at all. "A lot of us" can still be an insignificant number compared to the Google Drive userbase and target demographic. Now, "more than 10% of Google Drive user…

I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. I've worked at 10k+ orgs that use it exclusively and every minute of every day. I'm not sure where you're getting those stats but a source would be nice. I would suspect that their customer base and/or core usage is made up of far more tech company employees via Cloud and Workspaces than it is average Joes backing up documents.

> I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life.

Really? I'm curious, are the people you know using Dropbox, OneDrive, or something else? Or are they just not sharing files in a public cloud?

I started to retort "how do you even collaborate on spreadsheets with your friends?" before realizing maybe I just have some, err, unique friend groups.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by [deleted] »

adrianvoica wrote: post #71
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #49

Which Markdown flavor would they support? My issue with Markdown is that is at least a half dozen different ways of rendering Markdown.

At least the default, non-opinionated flavor, without the tables and math formula support and stuff like that.

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Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by fastball »

indymike wrote: post #93
fastball wrote: post #90

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Notion doesn't use Markdown.

Just type in markdown :-). It mostly works for input.

Sure, you can add asterisks around things and it will convert stuff to bold, etc, but Notion isn't actually a markdown-based app – the underlying representation of a Notion doc is stored as JSON.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

jehb wrote: post #101
KnobbleMcKnees wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. I've worked at 10k+ orgs that use it exclusively and every minute of every day. I'm not sure where you're getting those stats but a source would be nice. I would suspect that their customer base and/or core usage is made up of far more tech company employees via Cloud and Workspaces than it is average Joes backing up documents.

> I've seen virtually no use of Google Drive in the wild in my personal life. Really? I'm curious, are the people you know using Dropbox, OneDrive, or something else? Or are they just not sharing files in a public cloud? I started to retort "how do you even collaborate on spreadsheets with your friends?" before realizing maybe I just have some, err, unique friend groups.

Our friend group also use spreadsheets to decide who is bringing what to the BBQ.

In the non tech-centric groups of friends and family, filesystem solutions have been superceded by all-in-ones like Google/Apple Photos, Notes etc.

Most people I know also use an iPhone meaning they're driven towards data storage that is built around an app use case, rather than simulating a desktop FS on another device.

Many of them use Google or Microsoft solutions for work though.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by quickthrower2 »

RadiozRadioz wrote: post #6

Simple: if you make your documents in Markdown, you won't be making them in Google Docs. Stuff made in Google Docs is sticky, increases your dependence on Google, and importantly has a valuable network effect due to their collaboration features. It is in Google's best interest to encourage you to rely on their proprietary services instead of offering you alternatives that allow you to switch provider easily. Addition…

docx is pretty portable as it goes. getting stuff converted (downsampled; in a sense) to markdown is easy enough.

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

spondylosaurus wrote: post #92
BeFlatXIII wrote: post #76

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> Why store markdown files in Google Drive of all places and not a git repository? Git diffing doesn't play nice with paragraph-based prose.

Does it not? All of our docs are Markdown files maintained in GitHub and diffs have never been an issue. PRs in particular are great for collaborative updates because reviewers can jump straight to the paragraphs that changed instead of reading everything top to bottom.

How do you handle text wrapping or otherwise manage long paragraphs? Do you use a newline per sentence or use soft-wrapping to write each paragraph on a single line?

Re: No Markdown support in Google Drive after all these years

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Post by spondylosaurus »

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #106
spondylosaurus wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it not? All of our docs are Markdown files maintained in GitHub and diffs have never been an issue. PRs in particular are great for collaborative updates because reviewers can jump straight to the paragraphs that changed instead of reading everything top to bottom.

How do you handle text wrapping or otherwise manage long paragraphs? Do you use a newline per sentence or use soft-wrapping to write each paragraph on a single line?

I thiiiink soft wrapping, but I'm not at my computer to verify.
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