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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/1Xh7Btk:not-even-even replied to your post “i… swear i wrote a whole bunch of stuff for chapter 5, including a…”
you can search for it in the whole of your computer, there is a “documetn wit hthat word in” kind of option afaik
Is there a way to search through a selection of Google Docs for a word? I already know how to search my computer, and all my writing on my computer is neatly organized (ish) in Scrivener, so finding things there is basically a non-issue. (I love Scrivener! but I do most of my work on not-my-own-computer!)
My problem is Google Docs, which is sort of not exactly the most user-friendly experience. I can’t even figure out how to reliably put documents into folders, let alone anything else; also they don’t tell you when they were last edited, only last opened, so every time you click on one to search through it and realize it’s not at all relevant, it gets bumped up to the top of your recents again.
But surely there’s got to be something– Gdocs tracks your revisions, so even if it doesn’t show it to you, it knows which of your docs were most recently actually edited, instead of opened and then instantly closed again???
Ugh I don’t know. I just blew all the free time I had to actually write.
you can search for it in the whole of your computer, there is a “documetn wit hthat word in” kind of option afaik
Is there a way to search through a selection of Google Docs for a word? I already know how to search my computer, and all my writing on my computer is neatly organized (ish) in Scrivener, so finding things there is basically a non-issue. (I love Scrivener! but I do most of my work on not-my-own-computer!)
My problem is Google Docs, which is sort of not exactly the most user-friendly experience. I can’t even figure out how to reliably put documents into folders, let alone anything else; also they don’t tell you when they were last edited, only last opened, so every time you click on one to search through it and realize it’s not at all relevant, it gets bumped up to the top of your recents again.
But surely there’s got to be something– Gdocs tracks your revisions, so even if it doesn’t show it to you, it knows which of your docs were most recently actually edited, instead of opened and then instantly closed again???
Ugh I don’t know. I just blew all the free time I had to actually write.
