In the 1990s and early 2000s, teams collaborated by commenting on Word documents and sending updates as attachments via email.

Through most of the 20th century, collaborating on a document meant hard copies and red lines passed around the office. It’s no wonder why Google Docs has reached such widespread popularity. The usage of G Suite, which includes Google Docs and other productivity tools, has surely grown in the months and years since those usage numbers were last reported.

It integrates with right click menu to create new note instantly or from selected text.More than 2 billion active monthly users were taking advantage of Google’s G Suite as of 2020.

In case you switch back to Local Only mode from Cloud Sync, The Notes are not removed from Google Docs.

Any changes made through the web interface is also synced back.

When you connect it with Google Docs, It creates a folder with name as Scratchpad and all the notes you take are stored in as Documents.

You can Open this in new tab or use it as a sidebar.

Comes with a basic editor which supports formatting like Bold, Font Type, Font Size, Bullets, Highlighter etc.

Now if you do not want to sync it with your Google Account and rather use it as an offline note taker, you can very well do that by choosing Local Only Mode which comes as an option when you configure it.įor Offline Mode you don’t have to do anything but for Cloud Sync or Google Docs integration you need to authorize the app to access your Google Account. What is even more interesting about this extension is that it can work offline too so once your internet connection is back it syncs it to your docs account automatically. Which means anytime you want to take note its there syncing automatically to your Google Docs Account. Scratch Pad sits on the lower left of your browser and is visible for every tab. Now for Google Docs users if somebody wants the same kind of functionality, one can use Scratchpad extension for Chrome.

Since I use OneNote to put down all my to-do task, keep all links in one place it is really useful. One thing which have always loved about OneNote is ability to sync between Web and Office Client installed on different machines.

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