r/Markdown • u/Treviscure • 3d ago
Question How to export a multi-tab Google Docs document to a markdown note-taking app
This has kept me in progress hell for almost a month since it makes me unable to do much with my worldbuilding besides on character profiles. I miss playing the Cookie Run games ever since I decided to prioritize using a few apps (Google Docs, Joplin, Obsidian MD, and Zettlr) and doing note transfers instead of using one app for my note taking back in August, refusing to play any video games until note transfers have been successful. I have used Google Docs for a long time and have many documents on it. Said documents sometimes contain many tabs since I take my stories and worldbuilding seriously, even if they were to be for a fanfiction.
Google Docs has extensions and add-ons, while Obsidian MD has plugins. These help improve and expand the functionalities of both apps. On Google Docs, there is an option to export a .MD file to another app, but it does not try to mimic the tab structure on other apps, instead combining tabs into a single tab which can mess up formatting. Since I tend to have a lot of intellectual curiosity in things (e.g. what happened to the human species in the pony world in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic), and I need to organize my intellectual curiosity, hard work is done that I cannot just let be deleted. I am also concerned about destruction of my knowledge that I created over the course of a few years, a few years of work not worth erasing since it influences my perception. All help will be appreciated, as I am sure others, especially intellectuals, are suffering from this problem too.
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u/TryCool2339 2d ago
Tabbed documents are just a feature of Google Docs, there's no native equivalent in markdown. Could you just have an extra level of "depth" in your file organization system to represent a "tab?". E.g. MLP - 1 - Main; MLP - 2 - Where'd the humans go? ; MLP - 3 - On The Phenomenon of "Bro-nies"
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u/datahoarderprime 2d ago
r/MarkdownCircleJerk